Is this a Samsung thing? My S9+ used to do this all the time and it annoyed the fuck out of me, never had it happen on my Pixel

I would but there’s a site I use called RVRB that only works with Spotify Premium AFAIK, and I enjoy the site too much to give it up. Great way to discover new music.

legit I pay for Spotify and I love spicetify, been considering canceling it because spicetify and revanced spotify exist

I was gonna say, 4x the amount of RAM I have, made me feel inadequate. like, “am I really that poor now? is my 2080 now considered potato gaming?”

it’s simply been so long since I’ve gone “ok I need to upgrade” that I’m starting to get suspicious

Whenever I encounter that while trying to view something in private browsing (to avoid it tainting my recommendations), I go out of my way to use an alternative frontend just to spite them.

I dunno, maybe provide such a good service that it makes me want to pay, voluntarily? Like I do with Steam?

also, “you aren’t paying them, therefor they have the right to invade your privacy and serve malicious ads to you” is such a stupid, shit take. Are you some megacorp CEO’s personal ball-gargler or something?

see, I don’t negotiate with terrorists, so I use PopUpOFF and Bypass Paywalls Clean. Also AdNauseam, TrackMeNot, CanvasBlocker, and SponsorBlock to round out the “fuck you, fuck your ads, and fuck your tracking” suite.

Hostile consumer practices becoming ubiquitous? Become a hostile consumer.

I’d switch if there was something like RVRB for Tidal or, better still, your own local music collection. Or if RVRB supported other platforms.

Seriously, that site has helped me find so much stuff I like, it’s hard to let that go.

what the other guy said. Send it to the media if it was a national scandal, it’ll be extra spicy.

yeah, send that to his superiors and watch the fireworks.

uBlock Origin blocks ads, it generally doesn’t block cookie popups (and if it does, only on the initial load). This will nuke any overlay that appears during, or after the page loads. So cookie popups, newsletter subscription begging, all that shit goes away, even the ones that wait until you start scrolling.

If only their site included such answers on the very page I linked… Alas, we’ll never know.

allow me to introduce you to PopUpOFF, for popups like this on websites. It’s very effective at sending shit like this to the shadow realm.

won’t be able to help on a third party app though, but if popups like this annoy you like they annoy me, figured you’d be interested. Could probably work on their mobile site.

literally have not had to skip a youtube ad in years, because I use ReVanced and AdNauseam like a sane person.

I’m going to be sad when YouTube dies, and all that collective knowledge and content either goes poof or is haphazardly, incompletely transferred to some “new thing”, whenever that is – but I won’t be that sad.

Anything that brain of yours can think of can be found

It is if you do not possess a large stick inserted into your rectum.

If you look really hard and read carefully, you’ll see I also said “the second amendment”, which is popularly known worldwide as part of, specifically, the United States Constitution. If you squint, you can also see I mentioned “MAGA chuds” – I don’t think Donald Trump is running a presidential campaign outside of the US. Thereby indicating I was, in fact, specifically talking about everybody in the US, at least if you have two brain cells to rub together. It’s okay, I won’t hold it against you if you don’t.

It’s not like they’ve got guns either.

yes I’m sure the fascists will abide by the legal system they’re… simultaneously working to dismantle or otherwise work around in order to destroy democracy. Yes. Definitely.

Even if we did, what would people do? Start randomly shooting at people who we think are fascists?

all that is needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.

I don’t think I said everybody in the world, but that’s okay, I forgive your stupidity

I guess if you’re in one of the countries that banned guns for civilians you could write the fascists a strongly worded letter. I’m sure that will help.

but I was moreso referring to the state of things in the US where the left is seemingly paralyzed between “we have to get rid of all the guns! think of the children! won’t somebody think of the children!” and “fascists are taking over, what the fuck do we do!?”

Remember, the second amendment is for everybody, not just MAGA chuds. :)

I don’t have enough lube for that.