Truthfully, I do not use any ad-blockers and probably won’t unless they become built into Google Chrome. I don’t find it necessary. I guess it would make sense if I was super worried about the 3rd party data that could be being brokered of mine, but if advertisers want to know what kind of cookies I like to eat, I am all for being advertised the latest brand. What starts to bug me, is when I see the same exact ad for the same product over and over, and even if I use a sites feature (hello YouTube) to “stop suggesting this ad” or “i dont like this ad” - and it continues to show me that ad, well that is just a product I will never, ever use and you couldn’t pay me to do so.
For context, I live in Hong Kong where most people drink tap water after boiling first. Some may install water filter but may still boil the water. Very few drink bottle water unless they’re outside and too lazy to bring their own bottles....
In the United States, it is a little bit different.
There are “standards” that water quality has to live up to. Do these standards actually meet the criteria for safe drinkable tap water? Not always. This is evident in places like Flint, Michigan and other poorer urban areas.
Some of the tap water can be so bad that people wouldn’t dare to drink it even after boiling.
In some areas, the tap water quality is wonderful.
The long story short here, is certain places like Hawaii have extremely clean tap. Other places, like Texas, are notorious for having numerous water quality violations.
It falls down to each individual State and City for maintaining the standards that were set. In my opinion, it it just an easy way for them to waive liability at the end of the day.
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Let’s get the AMAs kicked off on Lemmy, shall we....
I began playing MapleStory again and I can't believe how relaxing it is
I know this is a hot take, but hear me out....
Do you use adblock? Why? Why not?
I posted this question because I once saw a tweet that said something like:...
People around the world, do you drink tap water without boiling?
For context, I live in Hong Kong where most people drink tap water after boiling first. Some may install water filter but may still boil the water. Very few drink bottle water unless they’re outside and too lazy to bring their own bottles....