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I'm talking about stuff thats frequently advertised on podcasts and other episodes of online series like "8sleep" (no idea how its spelled) or AthleticGreens or LiquidIV etc

Edit: is it banned to mention actual names, if not just message person if credible

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[–] czech@lemm.ee 36 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Ground News. The blind spot feature gives me great insight to where my "out of touch" family is coming from with their political narratives.

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

How US-centric is Ground News?

[–] czech@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

I'm not sure because I live in the US but the feed is based on "tags" you select. It seems like they process stories from around the world but I don't have a grasp on how comprehensive they are, internationally.

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[–] merari42@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Do they grind the news media executives into a fine general purpose powder (like Torgo's executive powder) or where does the name come from?

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Yes. When I can afford life I will subscribe. Which will be soon

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Is something like Media Bias Fact Check or is it different? Can you explain why it’s worth paying for? I keep seeing the ads but I feel like MBFC kinda does the same thing…at least that’s how it comes across in the ads. I’m just curious what it does differently so well to make it worth the price.

Thanks!

[–] czech@lemm.ee 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm not familiar with MBFC. It may be similar but I don't mind throwing some $$ at any project making these efforts. What I like about Ground News is that all the sources for a given story are aggregated to one page, sorted based on political bias, and rated on accuracy. That information combined with the "Blindspot" feature (which highlights when a story is disproportionately covered more by one side) is very powerful IMO. It looks like the blindspot feed it's available to non-subscribers but doesn't include the political bias of the source: https://ground.news/blindspot

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

Thanks for the info!

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The nice part about Ground is that they take the event being reported on, then show the news sources and how they’re reporting on them.

For instance, let’s say a white cop shoots a black jogger. Ground will take the news sources for that event, and line them up on a left/right bias chart based on their historic reporting records. So you can see how the two sides (and the center) are reporting on the same story. For instance, AP (historically just left of center) will be very dry, and only report “police shoot black jogger”. Far right outlets will post something about a heroic officer protecting communities, being forced to shoot a fleeing black man. And far left outlets will post about white supremacist cops gunning down an innocent black man.

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

Oh wow, I didn’t realize that! That makes it sound very cool, I’ll definitely check it out. Thank you!

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[–] Caboose12000@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Proton Mail and VPN. I saw them advertised a lot when I was first getting into Linux, and it seemed like a great way to start the arduous task of degoogling my life. Its been several months now and my only complaint is setting up the VPN on Linux desktop, it works great on android ootb and the email and calandar service have everything I need. I can even easily share calandar invites with my wife who is still on google everything

[–] meekah@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Ive really wanted to make the switch for a while now. I just dread updating all online services to the new mail... How bad was that in your opinion?

[–] polarbearulove@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Not OP but I've recently made the switch to Proton. You can set up a forward from your old mail provider to Proton, and then it's just a case of going through things one by one to change them, but all your email will still be in one place. You can also import all your historic email in the background.

I just went through my password manager to identify which services were most important to me to proactively switch them over, which took a couple of hours. Now I just check emails that come in and whether they were sent to my Google address or Proton address, and from ther either switch them or unsubscribe from their mailing list.

So yeah it's not effortless or anything, but it's probably not as bad as you're thinking.

[–] subtext@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Also, since Google is free, you can just keep it open forever on the off chance that you miss something (which you almost certainly did), and then like the above person said, just doing it slowly over time. Takes a while but you don’t have to do it all in one sitting.

Though I would recommend getting a personal domain and using that with Proton (or literally anyone else at that point). That way you never have to update emails with services again since you can just port from one provider to another.

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[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 20 points 4 months ago (16 children)

I bought a safety razor after an in video ad from a YouTube channel I watch.

It came with a bonus extra set of blades.

It is my first safety razor and I'm loving it. Disposables are a sucker's game. I knew it for years, but I only finally took the plunge. Totally worth it.

[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Literally close to a factor of 100 cheaper than disposable blade razors. It's flat out crazy anyone shaves any other way.

[–] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (5 children)

And for 40 bucks you can buy a shave ready vintage straight razor and never need to buy another razor again. Then, spend 20 bucks on an ok strop to keep it shave ready for a year.

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[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Tailscale is pretty fucking great if you’re into self-hosting

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[–] iiGxC@slrpnk.net 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I saw a video going over atheletic greens and it was a pretty subpar supplement.

I've heard raycons are way overpriced.

I asked gamersupps support if it's vegan, since their website doesn't say and they have some ingredients that could be animal derived or plant based/synthetic, and they told me to look at the website.

sooo... in my experience/what I've heard, no not really any good ones come to mind

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[–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 15 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I've pretty much made up a rule for myself that I won't buy anything I've heard advertised on podcast

[–] dmention7@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have the same rule, but that Chumba Casino app sounds so legit that I might make an exception!

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[–] CM400@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Zenni eyeglasses. They’re great.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I've not heard them advertised, but my partner gets constant compliments on like 5+ different pairs of Zenni frames, plus they're super cheap even with prescription lenses.

[–] CM400@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Eggs…actly. My prescription readers were less than $10 shipped!

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[–] Sequentialsilence@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Backblaze, it’s a personal cloud backup solution that just works in the background. I don’t have to manage a backup protocol, I get an offsite backup, and it’s cheaper than trying to let a file sharing service like Dropbox or Google do my backups.

[–] ShadowZone@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

I've been using Backblaze long before it showed up in YouTube ads. It's a great product.

[–] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (6 children)

I kinda like Magic Spoon cereal. It sticks to your teeth and has artificial sweetener (allulose) but it's pretty tasty and very low carb and comes in lots of fun flavors. I currently have the Fruit Loops flavored one. Was all over youtube a while back.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

What do you eat it in (milk-wise)? I recommend no sugar added coconut milk

Didnt realize it was allulose altho i just dont know if they would ever be economical pour moi

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 4 months ago

Atoms shoes. Back then, they did quarter sizes and you could get two different sizes because most people have different sized feet. They were awesome and I bought several more pairs.

They've been out of stock of most common sizes for a couple months without restocking and yesterday when I clicked the Contact link to ask about resupply the link is dead / goes to a redirect page. I think they're about to go out of business. Fucking shame.

[–] person420@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 4 months ago

I'll say it, Blue Chew. Never really had a problem getting hard but it takes my partner a lot longer to get off than me, so I wanted to make sure I could last long enough for them. No regrets, great decision.

Runner up is a Purple mattress. We tried soooo many mattresses and couldn't find one we truly liked. My partner suggested trying Purple. I was first against it because I felt like it was just marketing but agreed because of their return policy and we've gone through sooo many mattresses at that point. It ended up being our favorite by far and kept it.

[–] illi@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Ridge wallet is the best purchase I made in a long time. So great I didn't feel bad about buying a second one for a cool design and for a dual money clip setup a few years later.

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[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Grip6 belts. Waited awhile until they had a Father’s Day sale a year ago to buy a simple black one with a honeycomb buckle. That thing is now my everyday belt. I now have 3 belts, 4 buckles, and have 3 more belt/buckle coming from Prime Day.

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[–] spookex@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

My Hansen razor, bought it over a year ago because the cheap plastic safety razor got too annoying to use and I remembered the ad.

Didn't spend extra for the titanium version and got the aluminium instead.

It's not my main way of shaving since I bought an electric shaver few months ago to do it in less than 5 minutes in the morning, but I have kept it for when I want to actually get everything shaved and the large pack of blades should last me a decade with my usage

[–] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I like my Vessi shoes and plan on buying another pair.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 4 months ago

I have a groove belt. It really is as advertised. A true BIFL belt. Even has a lifetime guarantee without restrictions. I could send in the one I have now just to get a different color if I wanted.

[–] weariedfae@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

I actually liked Factor and heard about it from a podcast. It worked really well for me but I didn't keep it more than a few months because it is so expensive. If I lived alone or made more money I'd do it again.

[–] littleonescared@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Might be placebo for some, but I really liked Beam Dream. It really helps me to fall asleep quickly and keeps me sleeping until morning without the groggyness of just melatonin. It is pretty pricey though so I only buy it when the site offers me discounts.

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[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Linode Cloud Services (now owned by Akamai). Heard about them on multiple Linux youtubers channels. Been hosting multiple apps and websites with them for a couple years now on their lowest plan and it works well. I'm sure people have their criticisms of them, but I've yet to have any issues.

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[–] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Somehow, still nothing

[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not exactly an explicit ad, but more a product I heard about from an infomercialesque "review" for the PCPanel.

It was a cheap gadget that addressed a shortcoming I was experiencing. It works well and I use it every time I use my computer.

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