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When it comes to dealing with advertisements when they're surfing on their browsers. I've just learned recently about how Google has or is killing UBlock Origin on the Chrome browser as well as all Chromium based browsers too.

We've heard for years about people complaining, bitching, whining and vice versa about how they keep seeing ads. And those trying to help them, keep wasting time to tell these people that they're surfing without extensions. Whether it'd be on Chrome or Firefox or another browser.

By this point, I've long stopped being that helper because if you cared at all about the advertisements you see, you would've long had gotten on the wagon of getting adblockers by now. You bring this onto yourself.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

When you're at a fast food drive thru and they offer to round up for a charity cause, YOU can claim that write-off donation on your taxes, not the restaurant. Of course virtually nobody would do that unless you save your receipts and tally them up next year... but you can!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Related, I tire of explaining tax deductions are over valued. It's a net loss to you to spend money on something deductable and claim the deduction. If you have $100, the government takes $20 and you get $80. If you give that $100 to charity, you have $0, the government gets $0, and the charity has $100.

Deductions are only good if you value the thing that the money went to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (3 children)

I thought you couldn't even write off charity unless it was some stupidly high amount. Last time I looked into it, it basically just seemed like a tax grift for rich people

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

You need to have enough to make it worthwhile over the standard deduction. That's 14.6k in donations, mortgage interest, state taxes paid, and other things like that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

I think it's because for most people the standard deduction is way higher than itemized.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

You only get a percentage, depending on your state. It's not much... not many people bother (big market for boomers lol)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

I never thought about that, but it makes sense