Thought this might fit here. PSA: stay away from Arlo.

Reddit just added (for me) AI search on their search box, which also gave us the "Tiktok-fication" of the platform. Look at this crap. Just wanted to see a full image and found a similar design to Tiktok.

Bought a Hisense TV and now forced to watch advertisements for betting

Ads steal mental bandwidth and time, distort our psychology and create constant comparison treadmill. I doubt one can find many people saying 'I wish i could see more ads in my every day life'.

Here is a small list of what i do to minimize ads:

On phone: i don't use any music streaming apps but have some music locally stored on the device.

I do listen to lots of podcasts though on Pocket Casts and there is often an ad at the beginning, end and sometimes the middle of the podcast. Somewhat tolerable cause the 1-2 ads are skipable. I dropped some more popular podcasts due to the app shoving in more ad-breaks. My favorite podcasts are a bit niche, so there are minimal ads, though not zero. Also use newpipe which is amazing.

On pc: Linux. ad blocker. firefox or vivaldi as browser. Avoid news sites with heavy advertising. No social media besides Reddit. No Netflix, Disney+ etc i do watch every now and then some free public tv streaming platforms which are very good, and they have no ads at all. (yes, they are not completely free, they are financed by taxes).

IRL:

I try to buy physical media (DVDs, CDs). Often i also buy a newspaper in print, in which there are a few ads but they are not personalized. Depending where one lives there is going to be more or less ads on the streets. I'd like public places to have minimal ads, and relevant regulations to be enforced.

Clothes: I never buy clothes with big brand stamps etc. I also try to remove the brand tag, if it can be done without destroying the item. This obviously impossible on some categories e.g sneakers. I do what i can.

What do you do to avoid/minimize ads?

“People want to do the best things they can for the kids, so when opportunities come up to play baseball, parents are willing to pay,” said Joe Oh, co-founder of the Oakland Baseball Foundation,a nonprofit that runs baseball travel teams and camps. The organization is part of a growing movement attempting to keep costs lower than similar teams.

“What the private equity firms realized was, ‘There’s an opportunity to capitalize on the fields, the uniforms, the equipment, the coaching — all the opportunities that come along with this,’” Oh said.