tradewinds

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by tradewinds 3y ago
This article is mainly about ads popping up, but I think their whole UI is also worth shitting on. Really as an organization, Google doesn't seem to have any good-looking UIs. They're all ugly, awkward and inefficient. Clicking on
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by tradewinds 3y ago
You can get ad blockers on Safari iOS. I think I have AdBlocker and Wipr. They don't work quite as well as a legitimate adblocker extension IMO, but I'm pretty sure they block a big number of ads and other garbage.
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by tradewinds 3y ago
You've listed a few anti-user changes here - some of them incorrect (nobody is forced to pay for anything) - and then asked how the anti-user changes are pro-user. Certainly not the most logical of questions. There are of course many o
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by tradewinds 3y ago
This comment thread started with someone explaining why they won't use Twitter, and now you're arguing from the standpoint of someone who essentially doesn't use it anyway.
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by tradewinds 3y ago
That's exactly how I feel. If you look at the responses to my original comment, it's mostly unclear rambling or extremely mild exceptions. "Bad incentives", "weird decisions", "needing an account". My
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by tradewinds 3y ago
I am really still trying to figure out what the problem is with Twitter...
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by tradewinds 3y ago
You don't have to pay and the rate limits are temporary, this was stated at the point they started. It's a big deal to the anti-Musk activists but from a user standpoint it's generally negligible.
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by tradewinds 3y ago
So isn't that in favour of what this bill is attempting to accomplish?
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by tradewinds 3y ago
Yep true, it's a game of chicken really. This is probably what will happen in Canada anyway
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by tradewinds 3y ago
It's certainly not the greatest analogy - it's just meant to claim that you can't advertise something that someone's already looking for, including when you only know they're looking for it because they came to you
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by tradewinds 3y ago
I do on YouTube before videos from CBC News. I actually don't on Google search results, but the search data you generate in the process of connecting with news sites can be used for a multitude of profitable uses-cases, including selli
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by tradewinds 3y ago
Even within the search results, there will be ads. If you search "what happened in Canada today", Google will link some news and there will likely be a sponsored link or some form of income-generating item for Google. Then there&#
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by tradewinds 3y ago
News outlets have to compete within Google's search results. Google is, at least currently, the de facto search engine and their competition over providing all results is minimal. So Google is benefitting from the overall relationshi
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by tradewinds 3y ago
Well, the leverage is that some profit is better than no profit, in theory.
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by tradewinds 3y ago
It's not really advertising when the user is specifically searching for news content. That's like saying the halibut fisherman is getting free advertising when you go to a restaurant and ask to see the menu.
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by tradewinds 3y ago
Not to argue in favour of the bill, but I think the idea is Google's whole business model relies on others for content, so a slice of that revenue should go to the content creators (even though the content creators gain from Google, an
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by tradewinds 4y ago
If a stock in your portfolio tanks, do you start making all kinds of panicked moves? The answer should be no, because you had the risk assessment built into your investment strategy to begin with.
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by tradewinds 4y ago
For sure, I shouldn’t have called them advanced, they’re by definition broad enough to be industry agnostic and are typically taught in lower years. But if it were common sense it wouldn’t take a degree or years of experience to acquire tha
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by tradewinds 4y ago
I think you're looking for a business/economics hybrid field called "unit economics". Its all about churn, customer acquisition cost, etc. There's a guy who works for Microsoft named Tren Griffin who tweets case stu
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by tradewinds 4y ago
Accounting (for example the poster in the link states marketing does not make up COGS, which to someone who studied accounting is obvious). Simple economics (poster reveals "secret" that Price*Quantity can equal higher total reven
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by tradewinds 4y ago
Exactly. I too majored in business and I read through to the end waiting to see where the "secrets" were. This is super, super basic stuff that has more to do with really simple microeconomics driving firms' investment decisi