So I have bad habits of doing in app purchases because I have a pihole that blocks the ads, so I cannot use the commercials to get power ups or whatever. I do not want to pay Apple for things so I needed to find a way to help me stop paying Apple for things. I wanted to originally fine the address to just block payments to apple from through my pihole, after reading things I found that this would probably block updates and all that and that is not a good thing. So I ended up blocking payments as if I were a freakin child on the devices, I guess I can still do it with the password maybe? Feels a little demeaning but I need to stop myself and making it harder for me to buy power ups or whatever is a good thing.

I also think there will be secrete DST charges, of greater then the 5% or whatever it is, added to in app purchases come the first. The big tech companies will not be happy that they have to pay a retro active sales tax.

  • Reannlegge@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I used to, but then I got rid of Amazon, most of my Apple services, I got rid of Disney+, I canceled a bunch of other services I do not remember. I have a pihole, and I stopped using Google services a few years ago (minus youtube) so the Google knows next to nothing about me so the ads started getting really weird so I got youtube premium, I got rid of youtube premium in January but then I started seeing weird commercials again it was not cool. When Andor returned I started jonesing to see it, but I was not going to sign up for Disney+ again after about 3 weeks of trying to write scripts to automatically download it I found the *arr apps to schedule and download torrents. Once I got over my anti pirating stuff I found Unwatched to get around the YouTube ads.

    • ZDL@lazysoci.alEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I’ve never had Amazon. Never had Apple anything. Never had Disney services of any kind. Dropped Google stuff years ago (though I watch Youtube videos with a bunch of anti-ad stuff my SO set up for me). I do, however, pirate like crazy.

      Of course it’s easier for me. I don’t live in North America or Europe. Very easy to avoid this stuff here.