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Re:NL Judge: Meta must respect user's choice of recommendati... by sim7c00 on Thursday October 02, 2025 @01:08PM (#45452401)
the only solution is not yo consume things that operate on the model. the difficulty there is that the model is generally adopted. so a massive amount of users will go from 1 to another system only to get rug pulled out from under them again and again.

this can be a business model, economic circumstance, mgmt change. a lot can trigger such a shift in services up to then just fine to use.

most companies did not start out on these premises, and its really hard to tell what service will turn next.

i hope maybe ISPs could handle it and offer it as a service. like an ad free internet. but then they will just more deeply embed the ads and it will still get past. changes in designs of the apps will lead to blocking being ineffective.

so really then all that is left is not to use anything that has potential to identify you and your use of it. thats not a lot of things currently. most are frowned upon if you use it in a lot of regions.

Re:NL Judge: Meta must respect user's choice of recommendati... by sim7c00 on Thursday October 02, 2025 @01:13PM (#45452494)
a last point would be that another problem is that the apps feed into ad networks. so using 1 is already an issue, mostly the same as using all of them. maybe less data but they can get a lot from little anyway.