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by fwn 11y ago
Bigger thread on same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10993349
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by fwn 11y ago
It happens even faster if you consume it and block all ads embedded. And sometimes there are even hidden gems between crap content!
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by fwn 11y ago
Ok, fair enough. I didn't understand your post that way. I'd be fine with more download pages on that list.
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by fwn 11y ago
The exact bundleware you describe is a badware risk, no matter for what reason it is designed. It is badware since you would not install it if the installer did not trick you, and it is a risk since the bundling bets on your inability to ca
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by fwn 11y ago
It's just a catchy phrase designed to sound shocking as it suggests some opaque objectification. Obviously you don't need to "be the product". Selling a shortcut to a bit of your attention makes a lot of money, too. Edit
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by fwn 11y ago
This is what I thought as well. WhatsApp asked me for money a few times but wasn't overly bullish about it after I ignored it for a few days. Not using WhatsApp isn't any obstacle as everyone seems to have a few messengers. I just
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by fwn 11y ago
My newsfeed experience drastically improved the minute they allowed to disable generic this-happened-x-years-ago posts. That said I think it's reasonable to assume that some further control mechanisms for the user might make a better e
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by fwn 11y ago
I think - if i didn't misunderstood it - the uBlock Origin author came up with something like a resource library for exactly that reason. Sadly I can't find a explainatory page on it right now; a possible resource file is located
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by fwn 11y ago
I do think so: Search for "Cortana & Search settings" then turn off "Search online and include web results".
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by fwn 11y ago
I guess the 16 character notion is a classic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum Not exactly a non argument.
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by fwn 11y ago
I guess there is a subtle joke in using "literally" in a context where it's about the actual amount of letters.
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by fwn 11y ago
Uncompressing can be a major mental burden too. I'd rather read a real sentence instead of a 140 character string with various opaque shortenings.
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by fwn 11y ago
> Everything is political, because everything affects people. You might be unaware of the fact that you are standing on the shoulders of giants. This believe of you is reproducing a Montesquieuian perspective on civil society instead of
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by fwn 11y ago
I don't know if I am somehow particular guilty of creating factions. Look at this thread or most of the links posted on Facebooks initiative. They are all unbelievable biased and political. (From both sides!) There is little to no actu
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by fwn 11y ago
While I am generally in favor of free basics, I believe this platform argument to be one of the better. Don't know why you are downvoted, though. Maybe for the "isn't bad for users" half sentence.
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by fwn 11y ago
>The proper framing for this is "Facebook installing themselves as a middleman that can control and monitor all data access with de facto monopoly power to hinder future competitors" vs "letting the local people develop th
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by fwn 11y ago
Worse. It could be seen as something positive and then Netflix could be more expensive.
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by fwn 11y ago
Germans do happily register every change in their adress to a population register ("Melderegister"), which is also required by the law. This data can (and will) be sold for profit by the administration and an opt-out is only for
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by fwn 11y ago
They still seem to use a flash version for some browsers: > That's why we waited until recently to ship the HTML5 player to all browsers by default, with the exception of a small set of them.
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by fwn 11y ago
All the critique on Facebooks initiative is and always was just this: > The message is entirely misleading, as ['Facebook Free Basics'] does not really enable "digital equality" in India. But instead of simply recogni
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by fwn 11y ago
..not to take any side here, but to bully other people for having other opinions is more a reddit than a hn thing.
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by fwn 11y ago
I think that's a rather tricky thing to say. They block access to the article based on them detecting the users content blocker. A visitors intention, therefore, might be to reconfigure the content blocker to not be detected anymore. T
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by fwn 11y ago
Authenticity is an interesting thing to think about. Beside clear and pseudonymous identities, there is also the idea of having anonymous platforms with no identity at all attached to the created content. The guy who made 4chan, Christopher
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by fwn 11y ago
You could use "creative destruction". It means everything one could associate with disruption but you refer to Schumpeter, the guy who actually discovered the phenomen. It's also less fancy. https://en.wikipedia.or
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by fwn 11y ago
There's actually more content in the article. It's far from click-bait. After reading it I think that the exact city is the least interesting fact they have to offer.
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by fwn 11y ago
This regulatory problem exists regardless of which position you choose in this question. It could even be a bad idea if you want low income inhabitants to stay in a specific area.
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by fwn 11y ago
It sounds counter intuitive, but preventing the owners from reusing their property increases uncertainty for anyone investing in existing low income communities. While probably good for those few in the short run it could end up making the
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by fwn 11y ago
I think "maturing" is the wrong term even if abps acceptable ads program is seen as something good. (Ad-/content-)"Blocking" is not a flexible term. Maturing sounds to me like adding more granular tools and options.
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by fwn 11y ago
He gave a solution for a specific problem. The "but your whole security will break down if you miss a year of security updates" argument is lazy and counterfactual.
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by fwn 11y ago
Well, fair enough. He didn't even use the word capitalism, just "redistribution". ..which is a common effect in even the smallest transaction. The headline is pretty stretchy.

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