Yea pretty mess up, your tax dollars pay for the data that weather apps use for free, then some of those apps charge you lol. It was a big issue when the Hawaiian fires happened.

Isn’t it illegal for the NWS to make an weather app because of lobbyist?

Thats fine. This just fuels developers to make more efficient ad blockers. Youtube wont win the long game and the more they try stuff like this, the more people find out about ublock and other adblockers.

Designers if youre in a pinch, photopea.com is free.

Ugh scientific papers behind a paywall. Those publishers are the worst, mainly because any respectable researcher will give you access to their papers for free. Just have to go around the publisher.

You guys are killing it in the responses. I have sooo many options now.

I didnt even know that was possible. What are legal implications when doing this?

I think there alot of lurkers in this sub (myself included) who are in the same position you were in 6 months ago. Thank you for showing us the first steps. This might be the kick I needed to start getting serious about privacy.

Idiocracy had it right https://contraditorium.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IDIOCRACY-TV.png

Their strategy to combat ad blockers is to add more ads. Logic becomes irrelevant when youre surrounded with a cloud of greed. Ublock ftw.