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Innovations of 2018

38 points by zt 8y ago

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Finch2192 8y ago
This whole 'article' feels a lot like an ad for various consumer products.
- ekianjo 8y ago
  And a poor one at that. I don't know about most of the products they describe, but for the Nvidia 2080: > but watch the explosions bounce off the eyeballs of the characters and it’ll obvious that this is a new era for PC gaming. Seriously? Followed by a "Buy Now" button, of course. Probably an affiliate link, too. Yawn.
- TeMPOraL 8y ago
  I think you and 'ekianjo must have scrolled directly to "Entertainment" section and stayed there. Elsewhere, between space probes, military interceptors and radars, medicine (including IoT medicine; who thought it was a good idea?!) and glass floors on high towers, this article isn't very much about consumer culture. (Unless you want to say that all those other things are just meant to create a stronger desire in visitors to buy the few things they can buy on this list; given my cynical view of advertising industry, I could believe in that.)
tomazz 8y ago
My desk got warm from the laptop overheating. No wonder. This page generated close to 900 requests and countless adware. Will we ever get "website optimization" on the innovation list?
- c1sc0 8y ago
  The content payload of that article can be expressed in maybe a few k for the text and then a few more hundred kB for the images. What have we done?!
- adtechdetected 8y ago
  I got android popups from the article asking if Firefox could have permission for my audio and video. Now I wonder if you say yes to those once in your mobile browser if ad tech can use those permissions on any site to record you
  - otachack 8y ago
    I've been getting that from a ton of sites. I'm not sure why it's happening nor have I dived in to find out. Wonder if it's a Firefox issue.
  - tomazz 8y ago
    yeah interesting question. Are you giving the permission for the domain or globally for the ad tech that asked it (assuming it was the ad tech but maybe it was something else from the site) And if it was the site, why would they even want audio and video permissions?!?! They are a news outlet!
bolster 8y ago
> Unrejectable Cookies Blocking Access to Articles Yup, that was an innovation in 2018... (Greetings from the EU)
- kmlx 8y ago
  the great firewall of europe.
FrankDixon 8y ago
Phew, my 2013 Macbook is lagging from that page..
djmips 8y ago
The copy is not very well written, for example the part about the engine with variable compression has it backwards. The longer stroke lowers the compression which is favorable to the turbo.

Innovations of 2018

38 points by zt 8y ago

deleted 8y ago

[deleted]

Finch2192 8y ago

This whole 'article' feels a lot like an ad for various consumer products.

ekianjo 8y ago
And a poor one at that. I don't know about most of the products they describe, but for the Nvidia 2080: > but watch the explosions bounce off the eyeballs of the characters and it’ll obvious that this is a new era for PC gaming. Seriously? Followed by a "Buy Now" button, of course. Probably an affiliate link, too. Yawn.
TeMPOraL 8y ago
I think you and 'ekianjo must have scrolled directly to "Entertainment" section and stayed there. Elsewhere, between space probes, military interceptors and radars, medicine (including IoT medicine; who thought it was a good idea?!) and glass floors on high towers, this article isn't very much about consumer culture. (Unless you want to say that all those other things are just meant to create a stronger desire in visitors to buy the few things they can buy on this list; given my cynical view of advertising industry, I could believe in that.)

tomazz 8y ago

My desk got warm from the laptop overheating. No wonder. This page generated close to 900 requests and countless adware. Will we ever get "website optimization" on the innovation list?

c1sc0 8y ago
The content payload of that article can be expressed in maybe a few k for the text and then a few more hundred kB for the images. What have we done?!
adtechdetected 8y ago
I got android popups from the article asking if Firefox could have permission for my audio and video. Now I wonder if you say yes to those once in your mobile browser if ad tech can use those permissions on any site to record you
- otachack 8y ago
  I've been getting that from a ton of sites. I'm not sure why it's happening nor have I dived in to find out. Wonder if it's a Firefox issue.
- tomazz 8y ago
  yeah interesting question. Are you giving the permission for the domain or globally for the ad tech that asked it (assuming it was the ad tech but maybe it was something else from the site) And if it was the site, why would they even want audio and video permissions?!?! They are a news outlet!

bolster 8y ago

> Unrejectable Cookies Blocking Access to Articles Yup, that was an innovation in 2018... (Greetings from the EU)

kmlx 8y ago
the great firewall of europe.

FrankDixon 8y ago

Phew, my 2013 Macbook is lagging from that page..

djmips 8y ago

The copy is not very well written, for example the part about the engine with variable compression has it backwards. The longer stroke lowers the compression which is favorable to the turbo.