cyborgx7

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by cyborgx7 7y ago
If it has significant value to people, it can find a way of getting money from the people it provides value to.
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Be an effective way to get some money.
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How old do you think I am?
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>but since you're applying "guilty by association" logic to Brave That's a misunderstanding. It's not a guilty by association thing. It's that there is already a thing more in line with accomplishing my goal
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
I'm claiming a search engine can exist without relying on advertising. There are other ways of discovering products and services than advertising. In fact, I'd argue that the amount of things I want I discovered through advertisin
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
>How did these original purchasers find out about these products in order to buy and review them? Professional reviewers already find out directly fron the product creators. They want to be contacted by them and even seek out contact. Th
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
>I don't see any alternative to letting people make claims and making laws to stop them blatantly lying. What is the "best" product in any category? How does the best product surface in front of me without advertising in a
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
If the only value of media is to make you look in its direction for long enough to show you something else that you might actually spend money on, it actually has no value at all.
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
Yes. It would be a net gain if we got rid of advertising in the process.
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I made an effort to address the argumentative core of your argument. It's hard, because there is no core to the argument, just a kitchen sink of bad assumptions and weak arguments. And let me assure you that there is nothing "faux
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
>resumably the companies with the bigger budgets have that money to spend because they have a better product. Laughably wrong. Like, parallel universe wrong. Don't even know where to start on that one. With response number two, ther
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
I wrote down some of the many ways in which ads are a societal ill, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21528465
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
No, in making provisions for the advertising industry in their business model, they are aiding its survival. I will always recommend a proper adblocker over this.
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
Then getting rid of ads has to stop being a technical process but a legislative instead.
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
No. You don't understand. It's not enough for me not to see ads anymore. I want the advertising industry to die. The entire thing. Its existence is harmful to society.
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I do pay several patreon, have automatic transfer set up for two projects, and a long standing subscription to a website I'm a fan of. But people don't need to realize anything for ads to die. All they need to realize is that they
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
>there's nothing inherently wrong with advertising in an academic sense. There is so much wrong with advertising in an academic sense. - They distort the product market as they favour those players with the highest marketing budget,
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
I already decided my Ad participation. I block ads, and want the advertising industry to die. This does not seem like a value add to me.
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
>Don't force your views on others That's funny, since that is all the military does. I think what you meant to say was: "Don't force the view that you shouldn't force your view on others onto others"
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> in this hyper-politicized era People are still largely extremely de-politized. The fact that people are starting to have opinions that they care about again, and this is immediately viewed as extremism is very telling.
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>Like it was a "safety hazard" to have too many people at once in the smoking area behind the textile mill. It is a slippery slope to try to tease apart what is, and what isn't, interference right? No. It is a necessary th
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
Seems like cool tech, but not something that your average user would notice positively.
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>neither had much competition when it launched though I'm sceptikal as well, about a federated protocol being able to replace an existing entrenched player. Buy I still hope. >Not to mention the majority of people get their email
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
Peertube is a feration protocol for YouTube-like video hosts to interact with eachother. Or more precisely, it's an implementation of ActivityPub, like Mastodon, focused on video hosting. LBRY appears to be some kind of cryptocurrency
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
E-Mail
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
You noticed how evil that sentence is, same as me. And you are getting downvoted, also like me. Start-up culture has no soul. They think having soul is a weakness. They are interested in getting rich, and nothing else. It's an empty, g
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
And if NK know what is good for them, they will keep their nukes. The US will flatten them as soon as they get rid of their nukes.
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Correct.
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I mean, I could see myself using this as a way to store a string somewhere for later.
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by cyborgx7 7y ago
>because our definition of success is that the founders get rich The entire start-up industry is a get-rich-quick scheme and a cancer on society.

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