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by freeAgent 2y ago
This blocking method also wouldn’t touch those. I’m comparing apples to apples. If you want to block ads inserted directly by video creators, you need something like SponsorBlock and to either DIY or rely on someone else to have done it bef
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by freeAgent 2y ago
I block YouTube ads on all my devices by paying for YouTube Premium. It feels refreshing to be able to pay for a service I enjoy and therefore not be served ads which I don’t enjoy. It seems like a win-win to me. Doing something like this,
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by freeAgent 2y ago
There’s nothing to prevent them from allowing people to donate without a tax deduction AFAIK, but they don’t allow it. In the US, most donations no longer actually get deducted from taxes anyway due to the greatly increased standard deducti
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by freeAgent 2y ago
That’s a great argument for decentralization of search engine usage. The more small players with different ranking algorithms we have, the harder it is for SEO to work.
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by freeAgent 2y ago
Until, one day, Amazon recalls a book you have purchased or simply folds up the Kindle service entirely (unlikely, I know, but certainly possible).
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by freeAgent 2y ago
Yup, and thankfully piracy outcompeted them so Apple gave it up.
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by freeAgent 2y ago
That’s the bottom line. Kindle books will now be fully locked into the Kindle ecosystem and if Amazon decides to take back something you’ve “purchased,” you’ll have no recourse. I’m done purchasing ebooks from Amazon because of this.
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by freeAgent 2y ago
It only works when there’s a transcript. It’s not “watching” the video. That said, it works very well most of the time for me.
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by freeAgent 2y ago
At least as recently as 2014, I was aware of some random Windows 3.1 (yes) machines running in a corporate data center owned by a very recognizable Fortune 500 company. At the time, they were upgrading all their Windows PCs from XP to 7 and
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by freeAgent 2y ago
Same. Windows used to be pretty good from my perspective. Then, Microsoft started stuffing it to the gills with spy- and bloatware, so I moved on. Windows 10 was ok, but 11 is unacceptable.
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by freeAgent 2y ago
Look, I don't make the rules. The English language is what it is.
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by freeAgent 2y ago
LMGTFY: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/centimillionaire
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by freeAgent 2y ago
They mean the same thing in this usage.
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by freeAgent 2y ago
If you did that, it would partially to nearly fully de-anonymize the searcher though (assuming your parameters are unique or near-unique).
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by freeAgent 2y ago
But then you can’t blitzscale and exit after a few years as a centimillionaire!
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by freeAgent 2y ago
One such repeating case ended up settling for over $10B, so it was definitely worth it! To clarify, they spent decades litigating the same fundamental issue for each year’s tax filings, with each filing year taking multiple years to get to
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by freeAgent 2y ago
My father practiced corporate tax law and regularly had cases at trial that resolved issues from 20-30 years prior.
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by freeAgent 2y ago
Wouldn't it be amazing if all of Meta's ISPs cut them off for torrenting? One can dream...
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by freeAgent 2y ago
The point is about the hypocrisy and double-standards evinced by this behavior.
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by freeAgent 2y ago
Occasionally I’ll have large shared albums of photos and videos, but I always clean them up.
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by freeAgent 2y ago
I assume one could start and then cancel a subscription, though, so you could just pay about a buck every time you want to use the app. That’s a lot of friction, though. I have iCloud+ base tier, but I use it just for iMessage, Drive, and o
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by freeAgent 2y ago
There's a button at the top of the event page (after it's created) to add it to your calendar, but it's a bit strange that you even have to do that manually.
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by freeAgent 2y ago
I think they may have locked it behind iCloud+ because one of the big features it offers is a shared photo album, which of course utilizes iCloud. Anyone without iCloud+ is essentially going to be unable to use that feature. And yeah...it a
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by freeAgent 2y ago
Journalists used to use RSS quite a bit maybe 20 years ago. I guess they just forgot.
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by freeAgent 2y ago
It’s Microsoft’s new (not really), super-secure technology called TrustUs! Just TrustUs to do what’s best.
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by freeAgent 2y ago
It is DRM, it was just cracked a long time ago and they couldn’t apply a fix since the discs and players aren’t internet-connected or meant to be patched.
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by freeAgent 2y ago
But it also certainly wasn’t targeted!
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by freeAgent 2y ago
There were absolutely obnoxious ads, including pop-ups and pop-unders 15 years ago, but at least they were generally contextual rather than targeted to your ad profile.
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by freeAgent 2y ago
They’ve removed that limitation now, I think. That said, I still haven’t found any use-case for Copilot within an Excel workbook that works (probably because I’ve only ever asked it to do very difficult things since I don’t need it for easy
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by freeAgent 2y ago
Yeah, I generally trust Valve but gaming is definitely not important enough to me to give them kernel access to my system. I’m sure many gamers disagree with me though.

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