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by cyborgx7 10y ago
Quite the opposite. Ads led to all these fake news sites. Ads disable the concept of people paying for something they consider valuable. Instead all you need to make profit is to get people to look in your direction long enough to show them
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by cyborgx7 10y ago
Patreon, premium subscriptions, a bitcoin adress you take donations on or just selling the content. All of these are fine. There are no moral or ethical concern with ad-blocking. And even if there were, they pale in comparisson to the despi
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by cyborgx7 10y ago
Just to avoid a possible misunderstanding, I didn't write this article, I just found it wanting to learn ed. Thanks for putting it back.
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by cyborgx7 10y ago
To whoever edited the title: I appreciate the addition of the year, forgot to do it when I submitted the story. But I do think the "Actually" is an important part of the title and should be put back in.
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Actually using ed (2012)(sanctum.geek.nz)
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by cyborgx7 10y ago
The characterization of the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) as an encryption protocol destroyed the last bit of trust I had left in this article after the recommendation of a bunch of closed-source apps owned by social net
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by cyborgx7 10y ago
Cute http://i.imgur.com/duI91L6.png
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by cyborgx7 10y ago
Oh, it's the daily "Why won't millenials engage in the usual consumerist patternsß Don't they know they are ruining the economy?"-headline. I feel sorry for the article writers that get burdened with this stuff.
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by cyborgx7 10y ago
How about poetteringOS ?
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by cyborgx7 10y ago
They aren't tolerated on Android because they are pre-installed on Android and therefore in a position of power. As the Android market-share grows, though, the chances of an anti-trust suit in that arena increase.
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by cyborgx7 10y ago
The Mindgeek employee arguing[1] against adding WebSocket blocking capabilities to the Chrome API linked in the post is a fun read. Sounds like the ad industry is starting to get a little desperate. [1] https://bugs.chromium.org&
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by cyborgx7 10y ago
Imagine a world with no advertising. I do so regularly. You wouldn't have to rely on what you saw on a billboard or a website, where the products by the company that payed the most are displayed. Instead you would consult an in
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by cyborgx7 10y ago
>There’s lots of concern about media bias from all directions, and open source is the best way to address skepticism about particular assessments. This is a really good and important point, I think. Let's argue about method, not out
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by cyborgx7 10y ago
The usual arguments against advertising on the internet are about privacy, security and intrusiveness. These are all valid but even if none of those things were true, ads are still inherently manipulative. I consider manipulation to be unet
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by cyborgx7 10y ago
Wow, blocking ads (which are inherently unethical) doesn't kill every company on the internet but forces them to come up with better and more inovative business ideas. Who'd have thought?
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by cyborgx7 10y ago
> VP9 Video Playback > Opus Audio Playback > WebM Container All supported I didn't know this yet. Good on you Microsoft, I guess.
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by cyborgx7 10y ago
gifv isn't a file format, just an extension for an html document
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by cyborgx7 10y ago
But the invisible hand of the market will work it all out. Who needs stable public infrastructure if you can have a constant cycle of bubble building and popping to keep you on your toes.
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by cyborgx7 10y ago
Can't wait for the ad industry to die. I'll do what I can to help that process along.
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We are all libertarians now(medium.com)
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by cyborgx7 10y ago
It's probably not the same people but it's funny (in kind of a sad sort of way) that you have people arguing for deregulation because you can vote with your wallet if you're morally opposed to something, and for everyone keep
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by cyborgx7 10y ago
>Thiel, a non-employee (a “part-time partner”), is directly supporting Donald Trump at a massive scale — over a million dollars! — after we’ve learned even more of Trump’s horrendous statements, positions, and past actions than we could’
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by cyborgx7 10y ago
To be fair, OP doesn't take issue with who Thiel is voting for.
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by cyborgx7 10y ago
>Middlesbrough trader Brian Thompson is accused of selling equipment that "facilitated the circumvention" of copyright protection measures. If this is all they are accusing them of, I don't see how they have a leg to stand
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by cyborgx7 10y ago
Been using this recently. It doesn't seem as incredibly simple as it sounds using Unity is, from how people talk (never used it myself), but it's pretty fun and has a lot of potential. I'm kinda hoping it will eventually mana
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by cyborgx7 10y ago
I'm not usually one to complain about names like tumblr that omit the last vowel before the ending r, but those usually omit an e. For some reason omiting an o this way makes my brain stumble over it, every time it reads the name.
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by cyborgx7 10y ago
It's not my responsibility to avoid visiting websites that have ads on them. If ad-supported businesses don't want me to read their content, they shouldn't send it to me.
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by cyborgx7 10y ago
I do actually pay for content. And I do so gladly. But the fundamental problem with ads is that, even when they are unobstrusive, don't invade my privacy and don't compromise my security, they still are inherently manipulative and
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by cyborgx7 10y ago
No such thing as an acceptable ad.
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by cyborgx7 10y ago
At this point I'm completely done with ads. They are disruptive to my experience, invade my privacy and pose a serious security risk. And even if none of that is true, ads are still inherently manipualitve and I therefore consider them

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