Some of my local newspapers starting blocking people who uses adblock, which I use because of the ads(duh) and the 3rd party tracking. So I asked them: "If I subscribe and pay for access to your full site, will I then be able to see the site ad free as well as free from trackers?". The answer was: "no".
I was browsing a serious news site recently without ad blocker and was presented with ads of really ugly fat women with skin flapping about. Something about weight loss I suppose. Yuck, I lost the interest in reading the article and installed ad-blocker.
LinkedIn are bloody annoying. I uninstalled their app after they started showing that I had unread items, which where just paid commercials and not somone wanting to talk to me, of course it is a trick they had learned from facebook and twitter.
Sort of same thing happened to Twitter which I rarely used. They started to ping me with an alert everyday that someone had tweeted something when I hadn't been using their app for 24 hours. So Twitter got uninstalled, didn't care for it anyway.
And again it happened on facebook before I deleted my account. When I hadn't been on facebook for a few days, they pinged me with an update that someone had said something. When I checked it out, it did not even have anything to do with me, it wasn't directed at me or tagged etc. So I uninstalled their app. Then they started sending me emails instead about "someone did something"(really, that was about the wording of it). When I disabled emails, their clever tatics ment that I would not get notifications if someone was contacting me. So the only way I could use their platform as a message system was to constantly use time on it. I deleted my Facebook account, it has been a slight annoyance because family members assumed that I had been updated on different family related news, but mostly it has been great to do without all the mindless jibber jabber.:D
I bought a pair of of consumer Bose noise cancelling ones in hopes of getting some quiet time from all my colleagues to work. But they are very poor at blocking voices. Computer cooling, AC, airplane noises when traveling works. But sadly I don't have to remove them to hear what people are saying.
I am guessing that the electronics can't work fast enough to produce a counter noise that aren't some sort of static noise.
Weird, I remember it also only because it asked for my PIN and we had a talk about that in the car afterwards that it was unusual. Can't remember it it was a CVS around Fountain hills, Phoenix. Well maybe it was because I use a foreign Mastercard.
Last October, I spent some time in the US again and I noticed the few places that had started using chip readers had a person standing by to help people. They seemed a bit surprised when I just inserted my card and typed my pin code in a few seconds.:D They didn't even finish their line about being sorry about me having to remember the pin code. But I have been using it for years now.
We had a few problems in the beginning too both with speed of the approval process and the people using the card. but it is really not a problem more. Now both my VISA and Mastercards have NFC( I'm guessing it is?) so I just hold the card over the reader.
I think the amount of money you give, puts you in a bracket where they assume that you would like to recieve that sort of thing or maybe give more. When I were looking through my budget to cut expenses( I dropped cable TV among other things), and halved what I gave to charity, the letters stopped.
When I cancelled my cable connection, I redirected that money to a different bank account of mine instead, where I save up for vacations. I went through many of my other expenses and found 200$ pr. month which now goes to that account.
So she is getting a raw deal from YouTube, causing her to miss hitting the mark of earning 1 million dollar a day. She has also turned feminist because she believes that, as a woman, she has been held back in her career.
I care less and less about what Hollywood has to offer, endless reboots of movies and tv entertainment filled with shameless product placements to pay for the insane paychecks. Maybe it is just that I am getting old and have seen most of what they have to offer before, just in another wrapping. I like youtube now and all the amateurs videos you see around their(not the professionel "youtubers" so much).
We hear people say they don't care about sharing their information or "meta data", sometimes even with the classic remark that they have nothing to hide. But recently we have started to see stories about people being surprised when social media sites and others have started using their collected data better, it is kind of amusing.
I don't think that any of these companies all of the sudden have gotten better at mining their collected date, but rather that they choose to "turn up the dial" slowly because they need to get people used to it first and perhaps they have been a bit too quick about it recently.:)
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Some of my local newspapers starting blocking people who uses adblock, which I use because of the ads(duh) and the 3rd party tracking.
So I asked them: "If I subscribe and pay for access to your full site, will I then be able to see the site ad free as well as free from trackers?".
The answer was: "no".
Ok then, bye..
I just want to see George Clooney's head explode. :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
(no ,I don't like the parent channel.)
It sounded more like a joke.
there's an app for that.
What good is it to pay so much money for tickets and travel to see the events if you can't even brag about it?
I was browsing a serious news site recently without ad blocker and was presented with ads of really ugly fat women with skin flapping about. Something about weight loss I suppose. Yuck, I lost the interest in reading the article and installed ad-blocker.
Come on, I think you two already know the answer to that.
It's not a bug, it's a feature. It's really not about what you want.
Conan O'Brien. :D
LinkedIn are bloody annoying. I uninstalled their app after they started showing that I had unread items, which where just paid commercials and not somone wanting to talk to me, of course it is a trick they had learned from facebook and twitter.
Sort of same thing happened to Twitter which I rarely used. They started to ping me with an alert everyday that someone had tweeted something when I hadn't been using their app for 24 hours. So Twitter got uninstalled, didn't care for it anyway.
And again it happened on facebook before I deleted my account. When I hadn't been on facebook for a few days, they pinged me with an update that someone had said something. When I checked it out, it did not even have anything to do with me, it wasn't directed at me or tagged etc. :D
So I uninstalled their app. Then they started sending me emails instead about "someone did something"(really, that was about the wording of it).
When I disabled emails, their clever tatics ment that I would not get notifications if someone was contacting me.
So the only way I could use their platform as a message system was to constantly use time on it.
I deleted my Facebook account, it has been a slight annoyance because family members assumed that I had been updated on different family related news, but mostly it has been great to do without all the mindless jibber jabber.
Yes, or by the looks of the pictures, take 5 steps and go outside. :D
I bought a pair of of consumer Bose noise cancelling ones in hopes of getting some quiet time from all my colleagues to work. But they are very poor at blocking voices. Computer cooling, AC, airplane noises when traveling works. But sadly I don't have to remove them to hear what people are saying.
I am guessing that the electronics can't work fast enough to produce a counter noise that aren't some sort of static noise.
Weird, I remember it also only because it asked for my PIN and we had a talk about that in the car afterwards that it was unusual. Can't remember it it was a CVS around Fountain hills, Phoenix. Well maybe it was because I use a foreign Mastercard.
Last October, I spent some time in the US again and I noticed the few places that had started using chip readers had a person standing by to help people. They seemed a bit surprised when I just inserted my card and typed my pin code in a few seconds. :D They didn't even finish their line about being sorry about me having to remember the pin code. But I have been using it for years now.
We had a few problems in the beginning too both with speed of the approval process and the people using the card. but it is really not a problem more.
Now both my VISA and Mastercards have NFC( I'm guessing it is?) so I just hold the card over the reader.
I think the amount of money you give, puts you in a bracket where they assume that you would like to recieve that sort of thing or maybe give more.
When I were looking through my budget to cut expenses( I dropped cable TV among other things), and halved what I gave to charity, the letters stopped.
Should have been NOT worth it for me. :D
When I cancelled my cable connection, I redirected that money to a different bank account of mine instead, where I save up for vacations.
I went through many of my other expenses and found 200$ pr. month which now goes to that account.
I am wondering at which temperature the AC stops working.
It's the $CURRENT_YEAR ! :)
It was the effective geoblocking and the fall in content that caused the people I know to quit their service.
You should never underestimate the level of stupid in people.
It basically just a ACK package.
So she is getting a raw deal from YouTube, causing her to miss hitting the mark of earning 1 million dollar a day.
She has also turned feminist because she believes that, as a woman, she has been held back in her career.
Fuck off. :D
I care less and less about what Hollywood has to offer, endless reboots of movies and tv entertainment filled with shameless product placements to pay for the insane paychecks.
Maybe it is just that I am getting old and have seen most of what they have to offer before, just in another wrapping.
I like youtube now and all the amateurs videos you see around their(not the professionel "youtubers" so much).
I know I had been watching a lot of "This old house" on youtube, but it looks like binge watching. :D
We hear people say they don't care about sharing their information or "meta data", sometimes even with the classic remark that they have nothing to hide.
But recently we have started to see stories about people being surprised when social media sites and others have started using their collected data better, it is kind of amusing.
I don't think that any of these companies all of the sudden have gotten better at mining their collected date, but rather that they choose to "turn up the dial" slowly because they need to get people used to it first and perhaps they have been a bit too quick about it recently. :)