not caring about websites that are shitty without an adblocker has improved my life so much.

websites that see you as an involuntary customer and only care about the few cents of revenue you generate, which will wall you out if you have an adblocker, are just always shitty experiences. They're often toxic, incomplete or just wrong, they don't care what they serve you as long as you generate some coin for them.

I don't need them, even if what they have is unique, there are better things to do 🤷

I guess that's just a mindset I can recommend in general

It's okay to not have everything that's out there

There are very few things you actually need, or can even give attention to; there are far more things, people, places, and so forth, than you can hope to attend to within your lifespan.

Don't spend three quarters of that ruminating online content which is purely intended to waste your time and be of no consequence to your life besides that, and being frustrating to access on top of that.

@anthropy this reminds me of people complaining about the price of subscribing to every streaming service out there, speaking as someone that hasn't worked for the past decade I can barely keep up with the two I am subscribed to.

@ekg my monthly subscriptions are mostly hosting and cloud costs of my personal servers where I have everything I need :P

maybe I'm weird but I do not have a single netflix-like streaming service, I hardly watch movies at all, if ever I kinda go to a cinema or someone else's place.
the idea of watching dozens if not hundreds of hours of movies and series every month is something I just can't imagine when I have so many projects and things I want to do, places I want to see; no time for movies 😅

@anthropy I got burnt out, literally the only thing that occupied my mind without causing me more stress was Netflix.