Jake Surfer here... Not sure I can speak 100% for my brother Joe, but if I have to think, "Gee... I wonder if I'm just gonna get scammed out of half a penny with a bunch of clickbate if I follow this link," you can bet I'd be following a whole lot fewer links. Also, why am I giving someone an interest free loan so they can hold onto my money and deduct some of it for every piece of clickbate I get fed?
The problem is less lack of payment mechanism and more lack of quality / necessity. There are no shortage of places that provide reliable, relevant news. The supposed "journalistic integrity" that I might be willing to pay for gets eroded a little bit more every time ${majorNewsSite}.com parrots the prevailing party line without even a scrap of effort to contradict obvious lies and policy 180's.
There will be a lot more digital blood to bathe in before anything of value is lost.
I agree that clickbait will still be a problem. That's why it's good to support ${majorNewsSite}. (BTW, the only ${majorNewsSite} that parrots the prevailing party line that I know of is Fox news. The others have all been branded with Trump's "fake news" label which is a sure sign that they must have spoken some truth to power.)
This is merely an app which gives detailed access to the information already collected and which is currently available under settings. Interesting that when I was in the Philippines last year I bought a burner phone which had a similar app pre-installed. It was useful for monitoring my data access although it got to be a bit of a nag with too many alerts.
I know it's a cliche but I've just been reading the book 1984 again and it's remarkable how prescient it is in anticipating many aspects of current society. " Ministry of Public Security" (China) "Minister of Security" (UK) "National Security Council" (UK and US) "Department of Homeland Security" (US)
I understand how this helps advertisers but I really don't want to help advertisers. I can't think of a legitimate use for this "feature". When I'm viewing a website such as cnn.com, I don't want random ad networks to be able to set or read their cookies. If I'm on cnn.com the only cnn.com should be able to set and read cookies. I'd like to disallow third party cookies... For instance, Chrome doesn't have this option. They do have a "do not track" option which I have set but that doesn't seem to do anything. It should prevent third parties from setting and reading cookies but it doesn't. There is no option to exclude third party cookies. I just checked Opera and it does have an option to exclude third party cookies so I'll try this and see how it works. I do have the new Firefox (57) and it does have the option to "Never" accept third party cookies (set by default) so it looks like a good option.
Thanks for the additional information. I guess my question now is why would a browser allow random third party domains set cookies when viewing a site?
I naively thought that this was the default behavior for cookies. Why would anyone think it was a good idea to allow random people to read cookies from any domain? Cookies should be confined to a single domain where I am viewing content, not intrusive ad networks.
Yes, chalks and a blackboard are cheap but you don't seem to understand that there is a vast shortage of teachers and money to pay them. Technology can provide access to quality education.
While we're at it, let's bring back slavery./s A good argument can be made that the colonial exploitation of Africa is the cause of most of their current problems. For hundreds of years, Africa has been exploited for natural resources, slave labor and restricted education and development opportunities. It's still going on. The rest of the world still looks on Africa as a "resource" to be exploited (China is the latest to take advantage of Africa). Best to get rid of colonial powers.
China does have a large campaign to install solar energy and move to electric cars. https://qz.com/1072643/electri... Recently, India’s road transport minister Nitin Gadkari quite bluntly made the government’s intentions clear. “We should move towards alternative fuelI am going to do this, whether you like it or not,” Gadkari told India’s automobile lobby group, SIAM, on Sept. 07. “And I am not going to ask you. I will bulldoze it.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Solar power in India is a fast developing industry. As of September, 2017 the country's solar grid had a cumulative capacity of 14.77 GW.[1] India quadrupled its solar-generation capacity from 2,650 MW on 26 May 2014 to 12,289 MW on 31 March 2017. The country added 3.01 GW of solar capacity in 2015-2016 and 5.525 GW in 2016-2017, the highest of any year, with the average current price of solar electricity dropping to 18% below the average price of its coal-fired counterpart. India's initiative of 100 GW of solar energy by 2022 is an ambitious target, since the world's installed solar-power capacity in 2017 is expected to be 303 GW.
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But they don't know who you are.
If we has a sane public policy rather than rampant neoliberalism, we could do as the UK does and fund a BBC type news organization out of a tax.
Jake Surfer here... Not sure I can speak 100% for my brother Joe, but if I have to think, "Gee... I wonder if I'm just gonna get scammed out of half a penny with a bunch of clickbate if I follow this link," you can bet I'd be following a whole lot fewer links. Also, why am I giving someone an interest free loan so they can hold onto my money and deduct some of it for every piece of clickbate I get fed?
The problem is less lack of payment mechanism and more lack of quality / necessity. There are no shortage of places that provide reliable, relevant news. The supposed "journalistic integrity" that I might be willing to pay for gets eroded a little bit more every time ${majorNewsSite}.com parrots the prevailing party line without even a scrap of effort to contradict obvious lies and policy 180's.
There will be a lot more digital blood to bathe in before anything of value is lost.
I agree that clickbait will still be a problem. That's why it's good to support ${majorNewsSite}.
(BTW, the only ${majorNewsSite} that parrots the prevailing party line that I know of is Fox news. The others have all been branded with Trump's "fake news" label which is a sure sign that they must have spoken some truth to power.)
This is merely an app which gives detailed access to the information already collected and which is currently available under settings.
Interesting that when I was in the Philippines last year I bought a burner phone which had a similar app pre-installed. It was useful for monitoring my data access although it got to be a bit of a nag with too many alerts.
Which end did you light?
That could be the problem.
Google searches you.
I know it's a cliche but I've just been reading the book 1984 again and it's remarkable how prescient it is in anticipating many aspects of current society.
" Ministry of Public Security" (China)
"Minister of Security" (UK)
"National Security Council" (UK and US)
"Department of Homeland Security" (US)
They are all here to protect us (from ourselves).
The US is a corporate kleptocracy similar to Fascism but with less government control.
I understand how this helps advertisers but I really don't want to help advertisers. I can't think of a legitimate use for this "feature". ...
When I'm viewing a website such as cnn.com, I don't want random ad networks to be able to set or read their cookies. If I'm on cnn.com the only cnn.com should be able to set and read cookies.
I'd like to disallow third party cookies
For instance, Chrome doesn't have this option. They do have a "do not track" option which I have set but that doesn't seem to do anything. It should prevent third parties from setting and reading cookies but it doesn't. There is no option to exclude third party cookies.
I just checked Opera and it does have an option to exclude third party cookies so I'll try this and see how it works.
I do have the new Firefox (57) and it does have the option to "Never" accept third party cookies (set by default) so it looks like a good option.
Thanks for the additional information. I guess my question now is why would a browser allow random third party domains set cookies when viewing a site?
I naively thought that this was the default behavior for cookies. Why would anyone think it was a good idea to allow random people to read cookies from any domain?
Cookies should be confined to a single domain where I am viewing content, not intrusive ad networks.
Other than the fact that it has been extensively security reviewed by independent people...
https://security.stackexchange...
https://www.androidauthority.c...
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux...
https://www.theregister.co.uk/...
Forests and jungle are being cut down to raise cows and cow feed.
Stop eating cows and this will revert to a carbon sink.
Stop eating cows.
https://electrek.co/2017/09/17...
Reality says you're wrong.
https://electrek.co/2017/09/17...
Safeway turkey 0.99 / lb.
Whole foods still a rip-off
I have news for you. NASA doesn't build rockets. They are all contracted to private enterprise.
It's just that SpaceX is cheaper.
Yes, chalks and a blackboard are cheap but you don't seem to understand that there is a vast shortage of teachers and money to pay them. Technology can provide access to quality education.
While we're at it, let's bring back slavery. /s
A good argument can be made that the colonial exploitation of Africa is the cause of most of their current problems. For hundreds of years, Africa has been exploited for natural resources, slave labor and restricted education and development opportunities. It's still going on. The rest of the world still looks on Africa as a "resource" to be exploited (China is the latest to take advantage of Africa). Best to get rid of colonial powers.
China does have a large campaign to install solar energy and move to electric cars.
https://qz.com/1072643/electri...
Recently, India’s road transport minister Nitin Gadkari quite bluntly made the government’s intentions clear. “We should move towards alternative fuelI am going to do this, whether you like it or not,” Gadkari told India’s automobile lobby group, SIAM, on Sept. 07. “And I am not going to ask you. I will bulldoze it.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Solar power in India is a fast developing industry. As of September, 2017 the country's solar grid had a cumulative capacity of 14.77 GW.[1] India quadrupled its solar-generation capacity from 2,650 MW on 26 May 2014 to 12,289 MW on 31 March 2017. The country added 3.01 GW of solar capacity in 2015-2016 and 5.525 GW in 2016-2017, the highest of any year, with the average current price of solar electricity dropping to 18% below the average price of its coal-fired counterpart.
India's initiative of 100 GW of solar energy by 2022 is an ambitious target, since the world's installed solar-power capacity in 2017 is expected to be 303 GW.
Cutting taxes on oil is a subsidy just like the EV tax credit.
Except that your coal burning Tesla still emits less CO2 than your ICE car. (Internal combustion engines are incredibly inefficient.)
Just wrong.
Perhaps you read it wrong. Oil benefits from numerous tax subsidies.
https://www.imf.org/en/News/Ar...