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Don't give anyone ideas.

by Mayzie 10y ago

BinaryIdiot 10y ago
If I could afford one of the new Macs I would have already started working on this...surely someone else will.
- bla2 10y ago
  You don't need a new Mac to work on this, Xcode can show a software touch bar for development.
  - BinaryIdiot 10y ago
    I did not know this. Thanks!
    - MaysonL 10y ago
      See also: https://github.com/bikkelbroeders/TouchBarDemoApp https://github.com/bikkelbroeders/TouchBarDemoApp which has a facility to run a Touch Bar demo on an iPad connected to a Mac (or a Mac).
- deleted 10y ago
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madaxe_again 10y ago
Of course it'll be done. Here I am with an iPhone 6s, and on the average site I see less content than I did on WAP - many sites are 80/20 or worse on mobile. How long until hardware manufacturers include dedicated advertising displays in exchange for cheaper up-front hardware?
- nothrabannosir 10y ago
  Tip: if you have another browser, turn off JS in Safari. Use Safari until you really need JS, copy paste URL, Chrome, go to clipboard link, retry. It's laborious, but it beats getting bent over the knee by mobile ads.
  - qb45 10y ago
    Sounds like state-of-the-art pre-adblock technology. Browsing with no-JS/JS browsers indeed is laborious nowadays. I use this approach out of habit on my desktop machine, but on my new laptop I just couldn't bring myself to copy this solution and installed an adblocker instead.
  - xenobioticants 10y ago
    Or just keep Javascript on but install JS Blocker 5 and choose what scripts run. It quite amazed me how much sites try to fingerprint your browser, especially with canvas fingerprinting.
- Retr0spectrum 10y ago
  Then people could just physically cover up the extra screens.
  - saghm 10y ago
    Or unplug them
- stephenc_c_ 10y ago
  Amazon Kindle with ads on the lock screen is already offered as cheaper hardware than without ads.
  - S4M 10y ago
    Why would you need the wifi turned on on a Kindle? One should just buy that version and turn off the wifi, thus getting rid of the ads.
    - vel0city 10y ago
      One of the nice parts of using a Kindle is that it syncs your page between all of your devices, so if I want to quickly open the app on my phone and read a few pages I'm right where I was when I was last on my Kindle. When I get back to my Kindle, it has the new location synced. I read a lot of non-fiction. One nice feature that it has on WiFi is the ability to highlight a word or phrase and it will display a definition or a Wikipedia article/snippet right there on the device. Its an easy and fast way to get more information out of your readings, especially when I'm at the pub with only my Kindle. Another strong reason why you probably need WiFi on a Kindle at least some of the time is because WiFi is the primary way it gets content. You can get a USB cable to load stuff on it, but chances are if you've bought a Kindle you bought it to use the Kindle store. Also, I'm pretty sure it downloads a bunch of ads at once when it syncs, and then shows them over time. I've had it disconnected from WiFi for a few weeks before, and it still showed ads. So even if you only connected it for a few minutes to sync everything and then you disconnected until you wanted a new book from the Kindle store, you would still see ads.
- throwanem 10y ago
  You can run ad blockers on iOS now. Purify is a good one. They only cover Safari, not web views, but that's still a lot better than nothing.
- jerf 10y ago
  "How long until hardware manufacturers include dedicated advertising displays in exchange for cheaper up-front hardware?" 1999: http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/30/business/no-more-giveaway-computers-free-pc-to-be-bought-by-emachines.html http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/30/business/no-more-giveaway-...

Don't give anyone ideas.

by Mayzie 10y ago

Don't give anyone ideas.

BinaryIdiot 10y ago

If I could afford one of the new Macs I would have already started working on this...surely someone else will.

bla2 10y ago
You don't need a new Mac to work on this, Xcode can show a software touch bar for development.
- BinaryIdiot 10y ago
  I did not know this. Thanks!
  - MaysonL 10y ago
    See also: https://github.com/bikkelbroeders/TouchBarDemoApp https://github.com/bikkelbroeders/TouchBarDemoApp which has a facility to run a Touch Bar demo on an iPad connected to a Mac (or a Mac).
deleted 10y ago
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madaxe_again 10y ago

Of course it'll be done. Here I am with an iPhone 6s, and on the average site I see less content than I did on WAP - many sites are 80/20 or worse on mobile. How long until hardware manufacturers include dedicated advertising displays in exchange for cheaper up-front hardware?

nothrabannosir 10y ago
Tip: if you have another browser, turn off JS in Safari. Use Safari until you really need JS, copy paste URL, Chrome, go to clipboard link, retry. It's laborious, but it beats getting bent over the knee by mobile ads.
- qb45 10y ago
  Sounds like state-of-the-art pre-adblock technology. Browsing with no-JS/JS browsers indeed is laborious nowadays. I use this approach out of habit on my desktop machine, but on my new laptop I just couldn't bring myself to copy this solution and installed an adblocker instead.
- xenobioticants 10y ago
  Or just keep Javascript on but install JS Blocker 5 and choose what scripts run. It quite amazed me how much sites try to fingerprint your browser, especially with canvas fingerprinting.
Retr0spectrum 10y ago
Then people could just physically cover up the extra screens.
- saghm 10y ago
  Or unplug them
stephenc_c_ 10y ago
Amazon Kindle with ads on the lock screen is already offered as cheaper hardware than without ads.
- S4M 10y ago
  Why would you need the wifi turned on on a Kindle? One should just buy that version and turn off the wifi, thus getting rid of the ads.
  - vel0city 10y ago
    One of the nice parts of using a Kindle is that it syncs your page between all of your devices, so if I want to quickly open the app on my phone and read a few pages I'm right where I was when I was last on my Kindle. When I get back to my Kindle, it has the new location synced. I read a lot of non-fiction. One nice feature that it has on WiFi is the ability to highlight a word or phrase and it will display a definition or a Wikipedia article/snippet right there on the device. Its an easy and fast way to get more information out of your readings, especially when I'm at the pub with only my Kindle. Another strong reason why you probably need WiFi on a Kindle at least some of the time is because WiFi is the primary way it gets content. You can get a USB cable to load stuff on it, but chances are if you've bought a Kindle you bought it to use the Kindle store. Also, I'm pretty sure it downloads a bunch of ads at once when it syncs, and then shows them over time. I've had it disconnected from WiFi for a few weeks before, and it still showed ads. So even if you only connected it for a few minutes to sync everything and then you disconnected until you wanted a new book from the Kindle store, you would still see ads.
throwanem 10y ago
You can run ad blockers on iOS now. Purify is a good one. They only cover Safari, not web views, but that's still a lot better than nothing.
jerf 10y ago
"How long until hardware manufacturers include dedicated advertising displays in exchange for cheaper up-front hardware?" 1999: http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/30/business/no-more-giveaway-computers-free-pc-to-be-bought-by-emachines.html http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/30/business/no-more-giveaway-...