Would you be super “scared” of the hyperbole headline then?

Really don’t understand why this isn’t presented as an option in the article.

Security Here : Do not do this. (Full Stop)

Do not make me hunt you down and hand you over to legal, the PD, and the FBI.

If you created the docs on the clock, chances are your work will consider them theirs.

I know trying to be helpful but frank its getting tiresome. This is because answer pretty much has been the same for years now and there as another article within last month with essentially the same question.

I’d also slap a solid-state drive in your system if it doesn’t have one already

No chance on giving Linux Mint/Ubuntu/Fedora a try to see if it revives the creeky old computer, huh?

I used PaperKarma back in the day, probably about 6 years ago now.  It only SORT OF worked back then.  I’d take pictures of the return addresses, and would continue to receive mailings.  Of course, this was when it was free, so who am I to complain.  That being said, hopefully it has improved since I last used it…

Unless you have any issues with the SmartTV

Exactly how I use my “SmartTV”. 

Pi-Hole is pretty damn effective. On my xbox I've noticed that, while it doesn't block the regular ad-break ads, it will block Hulu's uh "bonus" ad content it likes to plaster over everything. 

To add to my previous comment, why do we accept this? You don't go to a restaraunt and order food and are told we have to watch 5 minutes of commercials before we can get our food do we? Commercialism has gotten out of hand and we have just accepted it.

iPhone’s are really good for controlling AppleTV.  Everything basically functions the same but you get an onscreen keyboard.

I don’t want my content for free, I happily pay for Netflix, Hulu (the ad-free version), and HBO. I won’t buy a box that inserts ads into it’s interface at all. And if any of those services start putting ads (other than preroll previews for other shows, which I only barely tolerate and fast forward through) into their…

The Roku also likes to phone home... a lot. From my Pi-hole last year:

No, that’s idiotic. I paid for the device, I’m not getting anything for free. You’re really going to say because every company abuses us with ads we should just expect to be abused?

You pay. Obviously.

Well, that reverses a comment I just made the other day preferring Roku to AppleTV. I just need to start using a different controller for my Apple TV.

They all have ads. It appears the only way to completely avoid the ads is to install a network-wide ad blocker, which seems a bit ridiculous.

You realize this is for snail mail, right?