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Black Friday?

No for me. I have vowed not to spend a cent tomorrow.

Honestly, I'm sick and tired of our consumer economy. You can't fart without someone trying to monetize it. I'm surprised there aren't ads on toilet paper.

Ordering anything on the internet requires you to give the seller an email address, then the seller shows their appreciation by bombarding you with emailed ads. Even if they don't get your address directly from them, if you pay by PayPal, PayPal sells them your email address.

Even charities get pushy. First, it's, "Give what you can afford." Then you start getting emails asking you to send more. More than you can afford? Sure, I'll do that.

Search engines? Fugettaboutit. I looked up "Rumely model M" on DuckDuckgo and the first five hits were ads. It's comical. eBay and Amazon both claimed to have great deals on a Rumely model M!

I have an email address I use only for communicating with retailers to segregate the crap from important emails. That only works partially, because I have a "clean" email address for banks and financial institutions, and they bombard me with ads too.

OK, end of rant.
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