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Samsung Really, Really Wants Developers To Build Tizen Apps (theinquirer.net)

Posted by msmash on from the do-it-already dept.

Samsung wants developers to build apps for its homegrown Tizen mobile operating system, and it is offering cash prizes to do so. From a report on The Inquirer:The firm has launched the Tizen Mobile App Incentive Programme, which offers devs whose apps feature in the top 100 most downloaded rankings (can't be that hard, surely) a $10,000 reward. The firm will pay up to $1m a month from February to September 2017, Samsung said, making a total of $9m up for grabs. Developers will be able to sign up for the Tizen incentive programme from January 2017, and the firm explained that applications must be developed using the Tizen SDK and aimed at the Tizen-powered Samsung Z1, Z2 and Z3.

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  1. It gets worse by tepples · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    From the story:

    From a report on The Inquirer:

    Like WIRED, the INQUIRER admits that its engineers are incompetent at falling back to alternative advertising providers that do not track users. From its technical support page:

    I've heard that using private browsing mode in Firefox can cause problems with viewability of sites?

    Firefox has a private browsing mode which includes ‘Tracking Protection'. This works in pretty much the same way as an ad blocker, so you are likely to be prevented from reading the INQUIRER.

    To continue reading content, you will need to click on the shield icon in the top left corner of your Firefox browser and click ‘disable protection for this session'. This will only turn off this setting for www.theinquirer.net and you can continue to browse the rest of the internet with it on.

    So here's an excerpt from an e-mail that I just sent to its support department:

    If I were to add the INQUIRER to the whitelist of Firefox Tracking Protection, this would allow the INQUIRER and the INQUIRER's advertising providers to be complicit in tracking my activity across multiple sites and building a dossier on my viewing habits that some government or plaintiff could subpoena in a fishing expedition. So if serving ads from advertising providers that track users fails, please serve me ads from alternate advertising providers that do not track users.

    I want to look at ads that don't track me. You aren't serving any.