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by 3np 1674 days ago
My biggest friction is not ads but e-commerce. Anti-fraud/anti-bot detection goes red for me from time to time - presumably having somewhat successfully removed surface areas for fingerprinting makes the AIs put me in the "shady" basket, so sites with high sensitivity set will not allow me to proceed.

PayPal is the absolute worst here and the process is horrendous, opaque and time-consuming. I've been blocked by Stripe as well. Sometimes I will abort a purchase when I see that the only payment option is PayPal.
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w-ll 1674 days ago
I use ublock and some custom DNS stuff and Paypal has never broke for me. I actually use Paypal at checkout more than not.
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aembleton 1674 days ago
At least with Paypal, I know it will work whereas with some random payment provider I do not. By default, I block all third party scripts which means if I haven't come across the payment provider before then it'll break.
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3np 1672 days ago
I guess I'm just unlucky. Cursed by the algorithm or something. Maybe having moved a lot and having a very foreign name for my country of residence are factors as well.
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