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How many communities do you have blocked? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by glimse@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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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[-] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago

Fair enough. Cheers,

[-] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 months ago

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).

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