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by convery 9y ago
This is what baffles me about the narrative. A candidate spent upwards of 1,3 billion on their campaign, had the backing of most mainstream media, celebrity endorsements, back-room deals, and literal paid-shills on social media (CTR) when t
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by convery 9y ago
That webdesign though, sat for a minute looking at the first image because I thought it was a loadingscreen. Who makes a 4K white image with some animated text on it as their header?!
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by convery 9y ago
The whole narrative about the Russian hacking is so strange. Someone from Russia, government or citizens, bought 100K worth of advertising; meanwhile the candidate spent upwards of 1.3 Billion on their campaign. Yet those 100K were what got
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by convery 9y ago
To each their own, but for me the series were just too slow. As in, it felt like half the streams were just going over the basics and explaining every little detail. Which I'm sure some enjoy, but if you're like me, I'd recom
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by convery 9y ago
From Jan 30 about advertising: https://blog.cloudflare.com/firebolt/
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by convery 9y ago
Now I'm curious, could one minimize this further? As in, making Chrome accept UDP to get rid of SYN/ACK etc.
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by convery 9y ago
Ye, Facebook is Facebook, which is creepy. Some friends asked me to sign up for it because they wanted to use the messenger service for a groupchat. When I registered it immediately propagated my profile with information about my highschool
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by convery 9y ago
It does get them a foot in the door though since most people never considered anything but Xeon. Personally I'll get an AMD the next time I upgrade just for variety; even if Intel would take the performance lead next generation. (Curre
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by convery 9y ago
> and stop using the ad-blocker, what will change? The site would become less of a burden on our company. It would still not be profitable, but there's quite a difference between losing 100$ a month and losing 80$ a month to provide
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by convery 9y ago
This. I feel like a lot of the responses are along the lines of; "you can get a VPS for 2€ so your site will still be profitable if 99% of users adblock; stop whining".
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by convery 9y ago
Through advertising alone? No. From a purely business perspective, it's shit. But we subsidize it through our other ventures because we want the users to have access to the content.
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by convery 9y ago
Surely that's more a question about storage, as in saving the page:ad-link history of a billion IPs, rather than maliciousness?
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by convery 9y ago
That list is pretty good, even if a little extreme, so I'll see about implementing one or two of them.
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by convery 9y ago
How about rather than consuming content that is so bad that it's not worth 2Kb of extra bandwidth; maybe don't?
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by convery 9y ago
Most sites offer some form of subscription service. Ours is currently 3$ a month and less than 5% seems to be using it. Most of our users seems to view it as a donation service though, might be something for any psych-major to do a study on
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by convery 9y ago
Exactly, and that's sort of the issue with the system right now. People like to argue that they are whitelisting the sites that they use regularly; e.g. Reddit and newssites. But in practice it seems like that's a minority going t
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by convery 9y ago
I love how you people always find new ways of wording shit to gain some moral superiority. Can't wait for the logical conclusion, "Netflix's servers are heating up the planet while processing my request; I DO NOT CONSENT TO T
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by convery 9y ago
> Nothing is preventing you from showing a self-hosted, untracked image that's actually an ad. Which is largely impossible for smaller sites. If you contact companies directly and ask if they'd like to advertise (or just have a
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by convery 9y ago
Or for the contentcreators, think Youtube, their CPM going from 2$ to 0.5$ just because people dislike Google seems a little cruel.
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by convery 9y ago
As someone whoms business largely relies on ad-revenue: please don't go out of your way to ruin advertising. It's a shitty system that is sometimes abused, but it's the best system we have as very few users actually want to o
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by convery 9y ago
What did you have for breakfast?
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by convery 9y ago
Line that stood out to me: "Rod retweeted in support of an inflammatory anti-Code-of-Conduct article" If you're not 100% onboard with the politics, you're a horrible person.
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by convery 9y ago
I feel that we, as a society, should try to apply this idea in a lot of areas..
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by convery 9y ago
This. Over the past few days I've been called a Nazi-supporter or KKK-defender simply for disagreeing with people. The 'logic' seems to be that Nazis are their enemy, and me not 100% supporting them means I too am the enemy,
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by convery 9y ago
Pretty sure it's different groups complaining.
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by convery 9y ago
Isn't the main issue converting 'analog' money into digital? I think Twitch was pretty successful with their tipping system..
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by convery 9y ago
As an outsider, why are juries not "blindfolded"? As in, given a fake name, only the transcribed testimonies, and relevant evidence. It's just strange that the accuseds identity and (potential) reputation could influence the
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by convery 9y ago
> He has a decades-long reputation for being anti-POC. He has also received awards for his work helping POC. Personally I value someones actions over what others think of them, but maybe I'm just crazy.
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by convery 9y ago
I think what annoys people is the doublestandards, as in that people on the right have to regularly denounce the radical elements while the extremes on the other side often gets a pass. As we saw over the weekend, even moderate pacifists th
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by convery 9y ago
Just because they don't have a legal right to something doesn't mean they have a human right to it.

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