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holy crap.

have you never heard of the mute account button?

Why mute when I can downvote?

(IFF) you are offended by words (THEN) don't read that account

Unfortunately I can't stop the sponsored and advertised posts, which is 99% of the content I downvote.

I only look at my following feeds on ecency, peakd or POB.

There is a promotion service on all of them, and I can figure out how to ad block it, is there a sponsored post blocking service for Hive?

isn't ad blocking functionally indistinguishable from using the mute function ?

I have found if I downvote religious content in the sponsored category, they tell their friends and and none of them use it.

It's more effective with less energetic required for future engagements.

So, you're not a big fan of "freedom of religion" ?