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by dmortin 8y ago
The site generates revenue by providing a service. That's why people visit it and that generates the revenue via ads. E.g. an independent news site provides news articles and people visit it. People won't pay for many small sites
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In case of the advertising availabe for small sites with a handful of staff (ad networks) untargeted ads pay much less (even 50% less or more) and that revenue may not be enough to keep the sites operational.
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> That's why you ask people. Most people don't care and just choose the default option to get to the site. If opt out is the default and opt in requires a conscious decision then the majority of users won't opt in, because
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Because we need independent sites too, so we hear other opinions than just the agenda of big money. It's not ideal that we need targeted ads for that, but currently there is no viable alternative and untargeted ads don't pay enoug
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> Advertisement doesn't require profiling and surveillance. Targeted ads pay much more. Eliminating targeted ads can result in a revenue drop of 50% or more, effectively killing small sites which most of the time make not much more
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So this is a bad rule, because enforcing it will result in eliminating independent small sites which have no other means for financing themseves than ads.
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What if the ads are required for the operation of the website, because without them the site has to close? People are rarely willing to pay for big sites, they surely won't pay for many small sites separately. Smaller sites don't
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> The approach where you show the entire page, and show the changes as green/red I don't know if you know Distill. That does this, though that shows the changes only within the part of the page you selected. It's a change
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Emacs is not a text editor. Emacs is a portable programming platform and text editing is just the default application implemented on it.
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> If people can't afford paying, then it follows that they can't afford being advertised You know the answer to that. People can pay with their data, their interests. And if you put the question to people if they want a free we
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> Figure out something better. There is no magical solution. The alternative is some kind of payment system. And many people can't afford paying for each site they visit, so it would limit people's access to the net if there we
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> Well, it matters in that if you don't live in the EU, it is unlikely that they will be able to target you for anything. I guess he means you can't escape the law simply by hosting the site outside of Germany, if you still wan
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What if you host your German language site targeting readers in Germany outside of Germany? Is it against the law? There are plenty of hosting choices around the world. I don't see why anyone would host a site in Germany with this con
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> Users in the general case do not specifically want ads. True, but users want to access content for free, they don't want to pay for every site they visit. And currently it's only possible with ads. And most users rather bear
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They try different solutions, before the impact gets bigger. I guess Chrome will introduce sometime in the future a disable ad blocker feature, so sites can ask the user to disable the ad blocker to continue and the browser will pop up a co
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Ad networks strive to filter these out, so it's not an argument against ads. Otherwise, you could say let's not use, for example, app stores, because sometimes malicious apps can get through the checks.
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Apparently, Windows has it too (snipping tool), so it looks like the firefox tool is not necessary.
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> I hate Mozilla pushing their own things almost as much as Google (a screenshot service? I have a keybinding for that, thank you) The screenshot feature is quite handy, because it lets you capture only a certain element on the page whic
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The majority of people don't use an adblocker (otherwise the ad based ecosystem would not work) and if you ask them if they want to pay for the sites they visit instead of seeing ads then most of them choose free with ads. One visits l
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They could add and index too, but linking to a search phrase is already prone to breakage if the text changes, so there's not much point in complicating it. Usually the same phrase is not repeated in the text if you select more than 1-
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I'd like this for PDFs. Often I want to share a PDF opened at a specific text. You can create a pdf url which jumps to a certain page. You can even link to a search for a certain word (single word). But I can't link to a search ph
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Also, if you ask people if they want targeted ads or pay some money to visit the same sites (because untargeted ads pay less) then most people will choose free browsing with targeted ads. People don't want to pay if they don't hav
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If a company is in China then I assume most of the employees will be Chinese as before.
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> the self driving car is likely to have a much higher fixed cost than the taxi with a human driver because of the expensive computer, software and new hardware like lidar. These will become commodities when the technology matures.
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If (and that's a big IF) you can get a self driving car to your house within, say, 5 minutes anytime then there won't be much reason to own a car. Only we don't know if everyone wants to go by self driving cars everywhere, e
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It can pick you up at your house.
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Everyone will go by car everywhere, so there won't be less cars, only companies will own them.
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There can be single passenger cars too instead of the current 4-5 seaters, which will take up less space than current cars.
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There will be self driving (mini)buses too cheaper than a self driving car ride (more stops because of more passengers carried).
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If the car is soiled you'll indicate it via the app, they send an other car and make the previous user to pay for cleaning. When people learn they have to pay for cleaning/repairs if they don't take care of the car then they

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