My girl was looking for a dress for Halloween. Yesterday she found one on Amazon for € 35 and put it in the cart, but did not buy it. Today she looked it up again and it was € 50 so she asked me to look it up with my phone with my Amazon account - it turned out to be € 23 for me, less than half of what it’s for her!

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    2 months ago

    I pay for Mullvad VPN, that’s €60/yr ($65)

    I know it’s much but I prefer mailing them a letter with the money to stay anonymous

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      2 months ago

      I am using mullvad vpn as well.

      I am saying that AdBlock premium has a different cost based on your location, which you can switch with your VPN.

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        2 months ago

        Use uBlock origin instead. Cost is $0 forever, and it has the best adblocking by far.

        You can augment that with an NextDNS account to do ad filtering at the DNS level. It is a pay service technically, but their free tier is very generous.

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          It is not the best adblocking by far, that is not accurate.

          It is better than the free AdBlock extension, yes. It is not better than AdBlock premium. No more cookies popups, no more floating video players on news sites, no more mailing list popups. These are three things that you do not get with ublock origin. I know because I use both.

          I already use adgaurds DNS, which is free.

          Lastly, I’m more than happy to pay $15/yr to a company fighting a fight I believe in. Now, I wouldn’t pay $40/yr, but if all I need to do is change my VPN from New Jersey to Montreal to get more than 50% off that price, it’s a no brainier.

          My only complaint is they don’t have a Firefox mobile extension, so when I’m on my phone I’m stuck with janky-ass ublock origin and nothing better.

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            2 months ago

            Whatever works for you.

            Personally, I have none of the above issues with Unlock origin. Its deeply tunable, so after adding a few lists past the default, it stops all the above.

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      I buy IVPN sub with Monero, so it’s private. I’mma try Mullvad next time.

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        I think it’s neat. You create an account, without an email address, you just get a random number, choose a password. Then you have the option to send them a letter containing the money and a piece of paper with your random number and they’ll add the time to your account.

        Or you can use any other form of payment, including monero