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by lopis 6y ago
Receiving a multi-billion valuation means you don't need support - the users and the money just comes to you regardless.
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by lopis 6y ago
Yup. They used to (or maybe still do) have 5 pages of "Do you know these people? What about these?" each time I logged in, and in one of the pages it would ask to connect to your contacts. I don't know how but they actually t
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by lopis 6y ago
> Chrome will never: ban 3rd party cookies It will ban 3rd party cookies the moment Google decides it's time to kill off most of their competition. They have Chrome installed on most people's computers and smartphones so they h
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by lopis 6y ago
Absolute trash. For most searches these days alternative search engines are proving much more effective to me. Can I just get a simple list of results please??
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by lopis 6y ago
It's a protocol pushed by one company that wants to bend the web to fit it's purposes. To do that, Google ranks AMP pages more highly. And that's anti competitive and breaks search. One reason Google wants the whole web to be
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by lopis 6y ago
Cups, spoons, etc, are convertible to millilitres. Most recipes call for pre-heated over at 180ºC unless states otherwise. Cooking does not observe reproducible builds. You always, always needs to taste, poke, look. If your flour is of a di
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by lopis 6y ago
Also if you would use real wax, suddenly fruits and vegetables wouldn't be vegan anymore.
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by lopis 6y ago
I hit this dilemma often. Do I buy bulk regular produce or organic produce invariably wrapped in plastic or in plastic bags?
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by lopis 6y ago
Yes, it took them 20 years to search 10 million books and objects. Seems reasonable.
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by lopis 6y ago
At least with TV, ads were scheduled and expected. The thing I hate the most about Youtube ads is how the intermission happens randomly and unexpectedly. It really spoils the whole experience of watching videos.
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by lopis 6y ago
Standard [0] tried that with mediocre results. Even some of the founders left. [0] standard.tv
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by lopis 6y ago
It died off because it's more commonplace now. Lots of people are taking meal replacements.
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by lopis 6y ago
Lately it does effectively sounds like a magic pill.
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by lopis 6y ago
> Just lost a few hundred Tabs from last session. Honestly, if you like to live on the edge, you have to except some accidents.
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by lopis 6y ago
Then the takeouts I've personally taken from Facebook, Spotify and Google were not compliant. They were missing anything interesting and non-obvious.
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by lopis 6y ago
Exactly. Unfortunately GDPR failed to realize that most data companies hold about us is inferred. Data takeouts usually provide you with all data you willingly provided (uploads, reviews, likes, playlists, etc). But most interesting informa
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by lopis 6y ago
> Websites are totally diluted with ridiculous amount of useless blabla because SEO is the way. My bad.
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by lopis 6y ago
Great video explanation on the subject from Minute Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZDsSnpYZrw
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by lopis 6y ago
A very, very small amount of your search queries would be even tangentially related to Apple. Right now, Google has all the incentive of directing traffic away from quality websites and onto pages that fit their plans. AMP gets promoted to
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by lopis 6y ago
I feel that for a long time this has greatly lost it's usefulness. In a time when more websites are "webapps" built using webpack and other similar tools, we've seen a big decline in the use of CDNs.
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by lopis 6y ago
Not just that, but the writing is atrocious and reads like an ad for that other dating app.
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by lopis 6y ago
A source for this would be welcome.
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by lopis 6y ago
Pocket is like a mix between Bookmarks and a TODO list. I don't bookmark random articles I want to read later. I add them to Pocket.
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by lopis 6y ago
So Google will either pay up, or exit Australia long enough until the law gets overturned - whichever is cheaper. For massive companies like Google, presenting them with silly fines and taxes is like a truck finding a little speed bump.
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by lopis 6y ago
It's counter-intuitive, but if you think about it, less develop countries are in a better position to deploy fully integrated systems. E.g.: Portugal has a great, free, cross-bank, ATM system since the beginning [1] because Portuguese
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by lopis 6y ago
One could also say that Google has proportionally more to loose from the advent of privacy consciousness in people and companies - namely the latest moves by Apple. But at the end of the day, with most people still using Chrome and giving a
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by lopis 6y ago
> For a website dedicated to sharing stuff from all around the we Reddit has moved away from being a sharing website to being a social network. This started years ago, but they have consistently move in the direction of siloing users. St
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by lopis 6y ago
I mean, we're talking about a website frontend that was what, 10 years old? At this point all frontend code was probably legacy and noone in the company knew how to maintain it properly, so they started over.
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by lopis 6y ago
You can make a case that Google wouldn't make any money if they didn't have content. They have trained the market into believing we need them and to pay them unholy amounts of money to be on top of all search results. But without
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by lopis 6y ago
> how will they distribute the revenue There won't be any revenue. Ever since France implemented their version of the "meme tax", where a tax would be charged when websites would want to use news snippets, what search engi

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