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by whalabi 7y ago
It occurs to me that this is like supermarkets charging companies to put products on their shelves, then also launching their own brands and competing with them on their own shelves. I think it's easy to see how customers are harmed by
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by whalabi 7y ago
> [...] Android probably would become insolvent at some point, because a free mobile OS is not exactly a big money maker They'd still be making 30% is it? On every app purchase and in-app purchase on the play store, which is surely
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by whalabi 7y ago
They're unfairly abusing their dominant market share (75%?) to harm competing search engines, which is not allowed in EU law. Nothing crazy about it.
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by whalabi 7y ago
Well that was bizarre, creepy, dystopian. For those who missed it: The tweets are labelled "Sprinklr" which is enterprise social media management software. So I don't think Britney is sitting in the warehouse on her lunch bre
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by whalabi 7y ago
This is so absurdly disingenuous from Google. The (very good) idea is that Google Search should be competing fairly with the other search engines. It's not fair to make these other search engines, already the victims of anti-competitiv
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by whalabi 7y ago
Wasn't one of the main points with flutter having really good fps?
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by whalabi 7y ago
Well that sounds.. intricate. Wouldn't it be dramatically simpler to just build the app twice?
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by whalabi 7y ago
> It's not up to websites to jump through Google's hoops. It shouldn't be, but it definitely is
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by whalabi 7y ago
(ok that's exaggeration but you get the idea) Very commonplace, especially at large tech firms.
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by whalabi 7y ago
Australia here, the entire tech industry in this country reads HN
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by whalabi 7y ago
AMP is also bad, because the technical steering committee is 3/7ths Google employees[1], with the rest made up of similar platforms that use others' content, like Twitter and Pinterest. So content-producing organisations are incre
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by whalabi 7y ago
Google still requires AMP for the articles carousel: "The Top stories carousel requires that your content be published in AMP. For more information, see AMP with structured data." https://developers.google.com/sear
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by whalabi 7y ago
> Digital-industry group DIGI—which represents Google, Facebook, Twitter and Verizon Media—said lawmakers need to think carefully about unintended consequences that could affect competition and the range of products available to Australi
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by whalabi 7y ago
Sorry, bad link. Didn't realise because I block ads :)
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Martian Meteorite(en.wikipedia.org)
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The maker of AdBlock Plus is also an ally of online advertising(cnet.com)
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by whalabi 7y ago
Google search is similarly hobbled on desktop Firefox. It looks terrible.
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by whalabi 7y ago
I've wondered if I should make a Reddit where everyone proves their ID, maybe even with a video so it's a lot harder to fake, so everyone can only have one account, and you'd know they aren't people working for the Russi
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by whalabi 7y ago
> I've seen and reported appearance of covert bot accounts across multiple networks. They never prove benign. You might be interested in this: https://www.stopforumspam.com/
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by whalabi 7y ago
To an extent you're right - for the purposes of learning something for example, a bot can fulfill your needs if, say, it happens to fetch the right information and relay it to you, even if it's spam. Although a comment like what I
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by whalabi 7y ago
I've also noticed that comment spam seems to actually work, and have seen mention that nofollow links do contribute to pagerank, although I'd guess they'd contribute less than follow links.
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by whalabi 7y ago
(OP here) OpenAI recently demonstrated a frighteningly high quality text generator[1] which leaves me concerned about the future.. humanity of the web - no more of those sub-par English articles if a bot writes for you. Makes me think we&#x
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by whalabi 7y ago
Bad habit of mine :) Thanks for the heads-up
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Google Search is routinely gamed by private blog networks(unlikekinds.com)
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by whalabi 7y ago
This happens in power plays routinely. I'm not exactly an admirer of the man, but I've been pretty impressed by quickly interjecting "excuse me" when someone is trying to talk over you, which Donald Trump has perfected
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by whalabi 7y ago
Correct, the study wasn't about prevention
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by whalabi 7y ago
I recently rejigged some of unlikekinds.com for performance and accessibility and climbed up Google fairly significantly, pretty much overnight. I can only imagine The Verge would be pulling in a lot more traffic and ad dollars if they did
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by whalabi 7y ago
Similarly I've been considering lately that the only real easy to break Facebook's monopoly is to target it's network effect, by forcing it to interoperate on some standard protocol, like ActivityPub. So, say, people could us
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by whalabi 7y ago
Now I feel bad for putting gibberish like jsjsjdkktkwoapaoalf in my address bar and searching Google to test if my internet is working..
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by whalabi 7y ago
> I don't believe the intent of the AMP team is to strongarm developers into using their framework Regardless of their intent, Google IS strong-arming publishers, by: * Pushing publishers to do something effectively none of them wan

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