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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • 90% of internet has always had ads

    And we were content to be back when it was a single banner. But then they started flashing, and crowding the screen, and popups that got so obtrusive they would sometimes spawn forever and crash your PC.

    You are almost certainly using a browser with a popup blocker, because advertisers can never just let it be: they need to become more and more obtrusive until they start harming their customers. Protecting yourself from ads is a necessity.

    Every modern browser has that built in, and phones actively block most of it. Unless you’re surfing the internet on IE4 or whatever, you are already filtering a good chunk of the dreck, because someone else saw fit to protect you from it.

    Yes, the internet has always had ads, and us not being ok with it is why you’re able to browse at all without infinitely spawning popups in front of you.

    Also, you realize you’re posting on an ad-free platform?


  • Actual story:

    Lionsgate has acquired Entertainment One’s (eOne) TV and film operations from Hasbro.

    Lionsgate has acquired ~6500 titles. One of those 6500 is Monopoly. The other 99.98% of the titles are not Monopoly.

    A Monopoly movie has been long in development hell with Kevin Hart, Tim Story, and Ridley Scott attached at different points, though none came to fruition[. . .]Currently, no director or actor is attached to Monopoly.

    The movie’s been in development hell since 2008 and the last update was in 2019 when Kevin Hart was briefly attached. Nothing special is going on with Monopoly currently, other than its mystic power to generate headlines.

    This article was a wonderful creative writing exercise.