9mo ago

Middle Earth enshittification

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- Don't listen to that guy, he's just a shill for Big Potato

MEAT! MEAT! MEAAT! (Airhorn) Looks like meat is back on the menu with the new charcoal grilled halfman sandwich, and why go halfway when you can also choose our full man cheese sandwiches.

WE PAY CASH FOR USED RINGS

Tom Bombadil's Organic Honey!
Find it at your local market!
- All Tom Bombadil products would have their own jingle.
  
  Hey a diddle ho a diddle Ol Tom’s honey is great for your middle

Have you been given jewelry that had some wackadoodle magical properties? Call the law offices of Gandalf and Gandalf and don’t settle for less than you deserve!
- "Here at Gandalf and Gandalf, we keep it secret, we keep it safe!"
- And how would they handle it if you decided you need their help in taking down a dark lord wielding a piece of jewelry and is hell-bent on enshittifying the fediverse?

McTook’s, now serving second breakfast and elevensies all-day!
- Ahh McTook’s, a good place to go after getting your mind slowed by the halflings’ leaf

People of Middle-earth: if you or someone you know was diagnosed with mesothelioma, you be entitled to financial compensation.
Mesothelioma is a rare cancer linked to asbestos exposure.
Exposure to asbestos in Khazad-dûm, Erebor, Amon Amarth, and serving in the Uruk-Hai or other armies of Mordor may have put you at risk.
Please don't wait. Call now for a free legal consultation and financial information packet .
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And when you pay for premium... still ads!

POTATOS! Boil 'em, mash 'em, put 'em in a stew!
^brought ^to ^you ^by ^the ^Dunland ^Potato ^Council

Here's a fossil of a meme: Lord of the Dancey-Dance
- This made me smile, thank you.
- Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  Lord of the Dancey-Dance
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That isn't Lembas bread, that's a beef crunchwrap supreme. Make sure you get one at one of our combined taco bell/KFC/Pizza Hut, where you can be free to mix and match our menu as your heart desires.
Where else will you get a $1 happy hour Pepsi brand fountain soda, nerd?
- In the NA release of Demolition Man Taco Bell won the restaurant wars; in Europe it was Pizza Hut. I am just wondering if they were still both owned by Yum! Co. at that time or if it's just a happy coincidence they merged later. 🤔
  
  It was made before Yum! existed fully, but both restaurants were owned by PepsiCo at the time.

I dread my super old TV or Chromecast going dead - I don't even know if any modern brands can be bought that haven't been enshittified at this point!?
- Surprisingly the latest Chromecast was more adblocking-friendly as it's actually an Android TV and I could install smart tube on it, my old Chromecast couldn't block YouTube ads
  
  These days I was more worried about it injecting ads of its own. Plus surely it tracks everything that it can.
- You can always buy a raspi and put PiHole on it to get rid of ads network wide. (And with PiVPN you can ensure that on your mobile and laptops)
  
  That's a good thought to consider. I use Blokada on my Android and ublock or whatever on my laptop so haven't needed to go that far before, but unlike those a TV would stay on the same network at all times. Though I wonder if it would leave a giant empty space for an ad placeholder, or conversely if the ad servers never change if I could do something with just my router. And then there's tracking as well, but surely that's just similarly dealt with by blocking traffic... one would think.
  All this seems potentially like it would wear the device down much more quickly, if the chip is sending multiple requests per minute, and getting blocked continues to do so, forever. I wonder if the device then instead of lasting a decade would last only a year at that point? At that point it would be worth buying a different brand that offers a potentially different solution.
  So much to have to research and learn!
  
  you can also block ads directly on your router by setting up a DNS that filters them out, it works for me