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by deprave 10y ago
I don't know about "only applies to /r/technology" - we've been there before. Remember when ad blockers were mostly prevalent among techies and visitors to tech sites? Yeah, well, that changed. It may start wit
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by deprave 10y ago
Key quote: "Marx of AV-TEST said that some newer companies secretly relied on data supplied by older companies while marketing themselves as a cut above the older technology. "They are using traditional methods, too," he said
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by deprave 10y ago
This is an article by a Microsoft guy who says Microsoft is trying to provide better software by following Apple's footsteps in "owning the vertical" (kernel, compiler toolchain, file formats, ...) and ends by implying that A
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by deprave 10y ago
I love your comment. :)
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by deprave 10y ago
On one hand I agree with you that borrowing a term like "sweatshop" to describe Palantir is ridiculous. The abuse of language not just in this instance, but overall, is ridiculous to both extremes. Having said that, I think the in
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by deprave 10y ago
It's part of the cowardice game. How do you both take credit when you succeed and avoid blame when you fail? You take an action that's easy to justify by external validity factors. If you succeed, you made the call, you take the c
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by deprave 10y ago
My guess is the hype created through secrecy.
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by deprave 10y ago
"If you do not claim this offer, you will need to purchase additional storage or remove some of your files. Otherwise, 90 days after you receive your first notice, your account will become read-only." Examples for things that will
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by deprave 10y ago
If you read the announcement you get an idea of just how messed up this is. Quoting: "We overcommitted with our free storage limits and we want to focus on delivering high-value productivity and collaboration experiences that benefit t
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by deprave 10y ago
Probably due to the same reasons Apple Watch and Google Glass failed with (most) consumers. It's nice as a gimmick and probably in very specific settings, but not as a general-purpose device for daily use.
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by deprave 10y ago
Fully agree. It's unfortunate that these "trends" are actually trailing and imitating recent successes. It only goes to show that VCs (YC included) don't shape the future of technology, but rather try to squeeze money fr
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by deprave 10y ago
I agree. Here's what Steve Jobs had to say about this, in the context of mobile search: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC8LR9cryG0 If we assume that different search queries are better served by different engines then
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by deprave 10y ago
I don't hate capitalism and there's nothing wrong with generating revenue. In fact, the rise of ad blocking is a perfect example of market efficiency. What's important here isn't the software that blocks ads, but the exp
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by deprave 10y ago
Fair point. There's some background here which might be relevant. Another extension, AdBlock, used to have a policy against "acceptable ads." The author sought donations to keep development going, but later sold the business
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by deprave 10y ago
Both the Interactive Advertising Bureau and Ghostery accused ABP of extortion due to their business practices. A program that labels itself as an "ad blocker" yet allows, by default, ads from companies who pay money, is part of th
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by deprave 10y ago
The "acceptable ads" initiative is how the company behind ABP makes money. It is their primary revenue driver and is the primary differentiator from other products on the market. Yet, they choose to name their product in a mislead
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by deprave 10y ago
Because of the default setting that shows ads in a program called "ad block."
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by deprave 10y ago
Minor correction: uBlock Origin has the highest number of contributors (49). ABP has 13 and the fork-gone-bad has 40.
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by deprave 10y ago
Use uBlock Origin, see my other post. The author of uBlock Origin makes it clear that no donations are sought for the development of the extension. That is not the case with the other version.
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by deprave 10y ago
ABP already is part of the dark side with their "acceptable ads." It boggles the mind why a program whose sole purpose is to block ads would not do so out of the box. Anyone who hasn't yet switched to uBlock Origin should do
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by deprave 10y ago
I see, that wasn't clear to me, thank you!
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by deprave 10y ago
This looks really great and I love the direction. Hopefully they're working on making it more consumer-friendly. ;) Questions: 1. They say that "While most solutions (Dropbox, GlusterFS, OwnCloud etc.) store your files unprotected
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by deprave 10y ago
I expect infrastructure hardware like routers to be used and supported for a minimum of five years. Google changes its policies and dumps products on a whim. It cannot be trusted with such hardware. Phones, sure. Chromecast, fine. Anything
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by deprave 10y ago
A positive bias towards anything coming from Google. Just look at the number of Google employees on this thread... The "let's see what sticks" approach might work well for software, especially the Google kind: ad-supported &q
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by deprave 10y ago
Your question rests on the assumption that it's "my" router, since it's a piece of physical hardware that I bought, and that it will continue to function after they shut down the cloud-based features that they used to lu
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by deprave 10y ago
I cannot understand why anyone would buy hardware from Google. Chromecast for $35 a pop is as much as I'd be willing to pay from something that they could arbitrarily shut down.
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by deprave 11y ago
One thing I've gotten used to and find missing in VSCode (and Atom) is auto-saving of untitled/unsaved buffers to temporary storage. When I have an idea or want to use a new editor tab as scratch space, it's really important
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by deprave 11y ago
I'm curious, why does he call them "men's bicycle"?
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by deprave 11y ago
Opera has long been known for being ahead of the pack. Let's hope at least Mozilla and Microsoft follow suit...
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by deprave 11y ago
What is your website? Did you completely remove ads from it in favor of webpass.io?

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