So you wanna stop paying for shit?
We live in a world where the same few companies package our culture, charge us for access to art and conversation, and treat participation as a transaction. Too often those corporations put profit above people — concentrating wealth, extracting value, and deciding what gets seen, heard, and made. That shouldn’t be the story we accept. Corporations aren’t inherently evil, but too many of them have built models that squeeze creators, grind down workers, and prioritize shareholder returns over social good. They lobby to shape laws in their favor, use surveillance to sell us more of what they already know about us, and set gatekeepers that limit who gets a platform. When we funnel our money into those systems without question, we fuel the very priorities we complain about. We have better options. Entertainment and meaning don’t need to be commodities. We can reclaim how we spend our time, energy, and money by choosing community, creativity, and reciprocity. Here’s how we do it:
First things first, you need protection. Sites generally contain ads, some of which can be harmful, often leading to unwanted pages or fake download buttons. Real download buttons are usually small, often text-based or subtly integrated into the site's design. Fake ones are frequently large, brightly colored, use generic terms like 'Download Now', and may appear multiple times on a page. It can be hard to tell them apart, so it's important to always have an adblocker. For browsers we recommend uBlockOrigion, and you can also use a Redirect Skipper to skip annoying countdowns. Note that uBO alone should be enough for browser adblocking; using DNS alongside it can cause conflicts. For mobile AdGuard Premium / iOS or Rethink DNS, and you can block YouTube, Reddit, and X.com ads with ReVanced Manager or Morphe, which you can optionally set up easily. Note that uBO works on mobile browsers like Firefox too.
Now that you have the protection needed to get out there its time for the good stuff. But it wont be that easy, many people on the internet chose to encode their goodies in something called Base64.
If you see strange text in hacker and piracy fourms it most likely is in Base64, it would look something like this aHR0cHM6Ly9naXRodWIuY29tL2ZtaHkvRk1IWT90YWI9cmVhZG1lLW92LWZpbGU=
Unfortunatly without any tools like a Base64 Decoder you would never be able to even see what I linked in this guide ;P
Maybe if you figure out what the coded message says you can access the good stuff..