How many communities do you have blocked?
How many communities do you have blocked?
My preferred way to browse here is using All and blocking communities I don't want to see. That way I get exposed to new things I wouldn't seek out on my own (for example: British archaeology)
I accidentally blocked a community while trying to block a user and when I went to unblock it, I saw I had 1250 communities filtered. If I had to guess, 90% are either porn, sports, or anime.
What about you?
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Only these 2:
Because they:
- Spam up your feed
- Spread depressing content (since it attracts more attention thus earns them more)
- Try to manipulate you
Earns them more what? There are no ads here unless you locked yourself into an app that pushes them.
Each article,
links to a news site,
which is riddled with data trackers,
which collects info about you,
which is sold.In addition the sites contain advertisements.
The 'them' in your first comment was pretty obviously about the lemmy admins on those servers profiting from doom scrolling. Now you are talking about "news" sites selling your data.
This sounds like something you made up to not be wrong. It is ok to be wrong. Just incorporate the new info and move on.
Or you guys just misunderstood each other. It is ok to misunderstand each other once in a while. No one needs to be declare right or wrong for this interaction.
Fair enough. Cheers,
How do you think news sites earn money? They do not provide that content for free,
you are their product of which they benefit.I use NoScript,
which tells me about each JavaScript piece a website has, most if not all of them contain trackers (= data collection).