Not a lifehack, just a reminder that legality is not an indicator of whether something is ethical
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Torrent everything. If it's legal for a company to cancel my subscription then torrenting isn't unethical.
Use the free tier if you are low-income. Privacy and security shouldn't be for those with money.
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I'm not sure about unethical, but blocking ads is a big one for me. The WWW is unusable without blocking ads.
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When I wanted to start using contact lenses, they gave me a pair of those that last one month for free to try them out, I didn't find them entirely comfortable so they gave another pair of another brand, and a third one. Then I started again on another place, and another, I think I went a full year without paying for contact lenses.
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If you get junk mail with a return envelope, it's automatically paid by whoever sent it, so you can mail back whatever you want, like vulgar imagery or blank forms
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Pirate everything, block ads, guillotine billionaires
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Watch youtube through other apps like Grayjoy If people are having a conversation in a dumb spot, walk through the middle of them
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If you really want to piss people off, treat every individual with compassion and dignity. Even (especially) if they don't treat themselves like that.
Also, corporations are not people, my friend. So use the above to help guide your social engineering tactics.
Not unethical or illegal, but avoiding a barrier, if you have a problem that a company won't solve using regular customer service means, spend time to find their email formula (FnameLname or FLname or FnameL @company.com) do some online searching, and then email your unhelpful CSO person and start to CC senior people in the company "to bring this error to their attention."
If the unhelpful CSO person hasn't messed up, then it's no heat on them and their supervisor will just say "ugh, just get rid of this guy," and solve your problem. I've used this method a dozen or so times, works well.
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For the US: The Supreme Court has ruled that flashing your lights to alert other drivers of an upcoming speed trap is protected by your First Amendment rights.
Flipping off a cop is also protected, but that's less helpful to others.
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If you are working as a contractor and make above a certain wage it can be worth it to setup your own LLC/S-corp. I did it one year at the advice of my CPA and it immediately knocked off 30% of my AGI. Lowered my pass thru income and tax liability. Saved me many thousands over 20 years. Its what every corporation in America does.
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None, I strongly advocate for ethics in all things.
Now if we want to talk about illegal lifehacks, that's a different ballgame.
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Fake stupidity or ignorance, just a little. Otherwise, you risk getting people on their defensive sides (e.g., doctors, lawyers, architects).
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Tell the truth all the time, be the most honest person everyone knows. That way when you really fuck something up they'll believe you when you say it wasn't you
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