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    My first time ever installing an adblocker was during a rapid anti-smoking campaign

    Those ads made me want to take up smoking out of spite.

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      Ouch. Cutting off the nose to spite the face.

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      That was the purpose. You see, Big Tobacco actually sponsors the anti-smoking campaigns, which does give them some creative input. They tell the writers to make them as annoying as possible.

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        They started messing with me on YT. When Piped began giving me errors last week, YT suddenly started behaving, but nagging me to try YT again. Google is truly evil, and dasterdly to boot .