Pro tip: the $180 I dropped on an ad blocker for my phone was the best money I ever spent

Mark Hernandez · 2026-09-30T04:25:04.863689+00:00

I paid $180 for a year of a privacy app last March because ads were following me around after I looked at boots once. Within a month my feeds went quiet and my anxiety about being tracked dropped way off, but now I feel weirdly out of the loop on what everyone else sees. Does anyone else feel like paying to escape the algorithm just makes you notice how much it runs your day?

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