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by hightrix 2y ago
It shouldn’t be. There is no monopoly. There are people that are mad you can’t get blue iMessages from an android and you can’t side load “easily”. That’s it.
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by hightrix 2y ago
That's not the experience my wife has had. She's been on one of these drugs for a while and still gets insanely hungry, but she's able to feel "full" with a much smaller meal than before taking the drug. If she ov
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by hightrix 2y ago
In my opinion, the issue is that the user's definition of "best results" and Google's definition do not align, including the Search team. Google's incentives are very different than user's needs.
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by hightrix 2y ago
The original Google whitepaper warned against the exact moves Google made years later with ads. It's fun to go back and read their thoughts on ads and how they completely change the incentives of the search provider. "fun"
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by hightrix 2y ago
Additionally, since the reddit-google deal, this only works on google anymore. I search on DDG for recent reddit content and there is nothing returned, as expected. Google really does seem determined to completely destroy internet search.
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by hightrix 2y ago
This does not bode well for search.
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by hightrix 2y ago
While enforcement may not have changed, attitudes have. If someone lit a cigarette in a bar today, they would be immediately thrown out. If not by the staff, by the patrons.
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by hightrix 2y ago
I try to follow this rule, 3 or less - cameras can be on, 4 or more - turn cameras off, they are a distraction.
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by hightrix 2y ago
These are problems unrelated to the topic at hand. We aren't going to solve every bit of this situation in this comment thread. Who pays for it? Not my problem. I'll use whatever free service exists, there will always be one. W
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by hightrix 2y ago
They wouldn't be less relevant. If I were browsing a mountain biking forum, I'd see ads for mountain bikes and other related services. They would be MORE relevant, rather than the current ads I get for the product I bought 2 mont
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by hightrix 2y ago
Please read again. Modern advertising is what I'm against, not advertising as a whole. Similarly, I'm against lead pipes for plumbing, not plumbing as a whole.
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by hightrix 2y ago
Short and simple response. > *Advertising in it's current form* is a plague on humanity. Magazine ads were not highly targeted towards every user that bought one. We liked magazine ads, they were high quality and usually contextua
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by hightrix 2y ago
> I suppose you wouldn't consider yourself an optimist. With regard to modern advertising, you are absolutely correct! That said, I fully understand and agree with the usefulness of advertising. What I'm against is the modern
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by hightrix 2y ago
Searching the internet and not rendering any promoted links or ads in my browser.
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by hightrix 2y ago
> why are personalized ads on a website indispensable? They aren't. This is exactly what I mean by modern advertising. If ads were just contextual based on the content of the page, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
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by hightrix 2y ago
Me too. I went to a store online that sells them and determined which one I wanted by features and reveiws.
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by hightrix 2y ago
What’s hard for you to understand? Plumbing is good and useful. Plumbing using lead pipes is harmful. Advertising can be good and useful. Modern advertising that requires tracking everything a user does is harmful.
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by hightrix 2y ago
I fully understand that advertising enables many businesses. But there have been businesses based on lead pipes for drinking water plumbing, asbestos for residential insulation, and so on. You could make an argument that these technologies
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by hightrix 2y ago
> Why wouldn't people pay for something highly useful? Typically because they can easily get it for free. Perfect case study is WinRar. How many people actually bought a license for software they used daily?
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by hightrix 2y ago
> nicely provide us with everything digitally that we could need... Advertising Sorry for the snark, but no one anywhere needs advertising. Advertising in it's current form is a plague on humanity.
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by hightrix 2y ago
> I doubt users would have revolted had the subscription gone up I don't doubt this, actually. I was a user of Apollo. I purchased the Pro Unlock for $5, and I did this only because it was a 1 time purchase. If it were a $5/
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by hightrix 2y ago
There’s a good reason for that. Ad companies don’t get much love from HN.
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by hightrix 2y ago
I’ve heard this promise so many times that I’m just a bit skeptical.
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by hightrix 2y ago
I always worry, with statements like these, that Fords definition of customer is not “person that buys a car” but instead is “advertising company”.
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by hightrix 2y ago
Sure, only if they take a look at every speed limit in America and readjust them to be realistic for modern cars.
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by hightrix 2y ago
I would LOVE a streaming bundle that included all the content for a discount if and only if it remained ad free. The big draw for me for streaming is not price, it is removal of ads.
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by hightrix 2y ago
> Being active on Reddit This has gotten really frustrating since the exclusivity agreement. Reddit now has no way to search for privacy mind folks that refuse to use Google. That said, this is probably good for mental health as it mean
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by hightrix 2y ago
If it were built by a VC backed company, you can be sure that you could receive email from all providers but only send to your same provider. Then, you could buy bundles of access. For only 9.99/mo, send emails to @aol.com, @yahoo.com,
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by hightrix 2y ago
Same setup here, but without premium. I'm seeing no issues.
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by hightrix 2y ago
Agreed. There are plenty of good solutions for gaming on Linux today. But these solutions are lot more complex than the default windows experience of download steam, install game, play. Many people don’t want to tinker, they want to play th

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