Gmail used to scan your incoming mail for keywords in order to deliver contextually relevant advertising. It stopped that practice a year and a half ago. Since July 2017, Gmail ads are instead interest-based, drawing context from your browsing history on other Google properties and on third parties' websites that use Google analytics or advertising.
If you don't like those apps then just take them out of your home screen and don't use them.
"Uninstall updates" doesn't recover the gigabyte of space that the outdated copies of these apps occupy in an Android device's read-only system partition.
it's in the interest of that jurisdiction to ensure that people complete their tax returns accurately
Not necessarily for two reasons. First, it's in the government's interest for people who are entitled to deductions or credits to miss those deductions or credits. Second, it's in the (conflicted) interest of the members of the legislature to stay in office. Big tax preparers like Intuit and H&R Block have spent big bucks to convince legislators that only dirty commies would take tax money to drive private-sector tax preparers out of the market. (Source: "How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing" by Liz Day; "CCIA's View on Government Competition")
That doesn't help once the operators of formerly open mike nights have since closed their mikes in order to "monetize" them by requiring each performer to pay to rent a stage on which to perform. "Why should we let you place free advertising?" Nor does it help a musician who is a high school student or a college underclassman or who seeks fans that are high school students or college underclassmen, as open mike nights tend to be in 21-to-enter establishments.
play in the park, or sing on a street corner
This might work when two conditions are true: 1. you are advertising music itself, and 2. the music is in a genre that can be performed solo live. Condition 1 is often not true because the vast majority of ads that appear before music videos on YouTube are for things other than musical recordings or concert tickets. Condition 2 is often not true in the case of multipart/multitrack recording, electronic dance music, etc.
Fans of previous work can subscribe for free to the artist's web site.
How can "subscribe" be "for free"? If you're talking about h-feed, RSS, or what YouTube calls "subscribe", that's more like a "follow" on other platforms. "Subscribe" is more like Patreon. And if you in fact meant what I'm referring to as "follow", then how would the musician support his continued production of music?
In the case of Netflix, it's not paying for a computer program as much as paying to rent movies and TV shows.
In the case of other categories of program that are traditionally proprietary, such as jurisdiction-specific tax preparation tools and video games, how else would you recommend to cover the cost to house the developers?
It's seriously strange, right out of the videogame console world or some bullshit like that.
Why do people put up with it on video game consoles in the first place? Because consoles are harder to screw up than a personal computer. Likewise with iOS devices.
If everyone blocks ads, all of the high-quality Internet services we use will go away, or become subscription services.
And nothing of value was lost. Back in the day there was a service called Adult Check, founded on the principle that adults could pay for nice things. A subscription to Adult Check was good for hundreds of different sites. Subscribers paid a $10 per month flat fee for access to all participating publishers' sites, which got divided among their operators per page view.
Those who long for the pre-ad Internet do not remember the pre-ad Internet. Or have very narrow and unusual interests.
Slashdot caters to some of these "very narrow and unusual interests."
FWIW, my YouTube has no ads, on any platform. I achieve this not by blocking the ads, but by paying for ad-free service.
That depends on having been born, or having qualified to work on a skilled immigrant visa, in one of the few countries where YouTube offers the ad-free service.
It's not "time to live" or "transistor-transistor logic" or "thank the Lord" or "time to leave" or "ta ta love". As for "text to landline", I addressed that: "others can [relay text to landlines] but charge a hefty premium per message." If you meant something different, please clarify.
Many numbers cannot send or receive text messages, such as landlines or home cellular service. Some of these carriers cannot relay text messages through text to speech; others can but charge a hefty premium per message.
I'm not sure what you mean here. Do you mean that an adapter meeting the Battery Charging spec or its successor the Power Delivery spec is not a "USB charger"? Or do you just mean that the vast majority of power adapters on the market with a USB A or C receptacle materially fail to meet the spec?
- GNU Image Editor (GIE) - GNU Raster Editing And Touchup (GREAT) - GNU Image Manipulator (GIM) with soft G to sound like "gym" - GNU Image Retouching and Editing (GIRE) - GNU Image Retouching Lab (GIRL) - GNU Adaptable Image Tool (GAIT) - GNU Users' Foto FudgER (GUFFER)
Not exactly a huge financial burden. My primary domain name runs me something like $12-$15 per year, and the offshore VPS that hosts my websites and email sets me back a whopping €15 (usually $17-$18) per quarter.
In other words, about $90 per year, plus however much it cost you to learn to securely administer this domain name and VPS. This is $90 per year plus hours of study more than just falling back to Gmail or Outlook.com.
I spent more taking my parents out to dinner recently than I spent in the past year on keeping a web-and-mail server up and running.
People for whom "out to dinner" means Chick-fil-A or Steak n Shake might not appreciate that analogy.
I bring this up with respect to the non-technical majority of people, not only technical people such as yourself and myself, because of the effect that scale has on deliverability. In order for a substantial fraction of Internet users to switch from Gmail or Outlook.com to their own domain, each such user would have to either learn how to do so or pay for managed domain registration and email hosting that is one-click easy. And without wide adoption of email from personal domains, the too-big-to-fail email providers can decide it's more profitable to reject email from personal domains as acceptable collateral damage in the war against unsolicited bulk mail.
I first encountered the term "linear park" when studying the greenways that surround some bicycle trails. For example, the Fort Wayne Rivergreenway is a flood control park that forms the backbone of the city's trail network.
The amount of possible on-call time is limited by law
An opinion letter from the Wage and Hour Division of my country's Department of Labor states that on-call time is not compensable unless it is determined that the employee cannot "use on-call time effectively for personal purposes". It drew a line between a medical equipment repair tech who gets paged about five times a week and a firefighter who gets paged about five times a day, each of whom was required to remain sober and show up in 20 minutes. The opinion letter gives an illustrative laundry list of U.S. case law.
If you claim you can't exist without a smartphone then you need to take a hard look at your life and your priorities.
And for anyone who develops smartphone applications for a living, being able to test the application you're developing is likely to beat having to find a different job.
but the computer is usually more expensive and less portable.
Only because manufacturers killed entry-level 10.1" laptops in fourth quarter 2012. In addition, good luck training for (say) a programming job using a phone unless you dock it to an external keyboard and monitor, at which point you might as well buy a low-end 11.6" laptop, such as a Dell Inspiron.
For the access, you can use a land line, which is also (usually) more expensive and less portable than an entry level data plan.
Even after you pay overage fees? It's a lot harder to get into overage fees on an entry-level cable data plan, which provides 1000 GB/mo (source: Xfinity by Comcast) than on an entry-level data plan from a cellular carrier in the United States.
You may find computers with free public internet, but even then, getting there may not be free.
Walking to and from the public library during regular hours is free unless you have a substantial mobility impairment.
Until the movie ends and you discover that your manager has been sending you increasingly irate texts and/or voicemails asking why you haven't addressed an URGENT!!!!11 issue with whatever system you are paid to maintain.
My cell phone cost me $120 to buy, and it costs me less than $50 per year (on average about $4 per month) to run. This is because I chose a plan with few voice minutes or text messages and no data.
2) I don't have to worry about losing it. 3) I don't have to worry about it being stolen. 4) I don't have to worry about being robbed for it. 5) I don't have to worry about whether its battery is charged. [...] 10) I don't have to worry about breaking it. 11) I don't have to worry about it being hacked/malware.
Instead, you have to worry about the six of these with respect to your non-phone pocket computer, non-phone digital media player, or non-phone portable satellite navigation device.
12) I am never bothered by people or robots via it.
If your employer required you to carry such a phone (with such a plan) in order to take elevated support calls after hours as a condition of continued employment, would you quit?
What do you do when a web application requires you to receive a code through SMS in order to begin or continue using the web application? For example, some users of the Twitter microblog host report that Twitter locks an account for alleged automated violation of its rules after a certain amount of use until the user provides an SMS number and enters the code in a text message sent to that number. Some such services can make a voice call instead of SMS, but Twitter allows only SMS, not voice. Do you instead choose to give up all the relationships that you maintain through that web application on the first such roadblock that you hit?
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Gmail used to scan your incoming mail for keywords in order to deliver contextually relevant advertising. It stopped that practice a year and a half ago. Since July 2017, Gmail ads are instead interest-based, drawing context from your browsing history on other Google properties and on third parties' websites that use Google analytics or advertising.
Run a web server on your laptop, connect to said web server from your phone using a 10.x.x.x or 192.168.x.x IP address, and upload things that way.
If you don't like those apps then just take them out of your home screen and don't use them.
"Uninstall updates" doesn't recover the gigabyte of space that the outdated copies of these apps occupy in an Android device's read-only system partition.
it's in the interest of that jurisdiction to ensure that people complete their tax returns accurately
Not necessarily for two reasons. First, it's in the government's interest for people who are entitled to deductions or credits to miss those deductions or credits. Second, it's in the (conflicted) interest of the members of the legislature to stay in office. Big tax preparers like Intuit and H&R Block have spent big bucks to convince legislators that only dirty commies would take tax money to drive private-sector tax preparers out of the market. (Source: "How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing" by Liz Day; "CCIA's View on Government Competition")
If you have no fans, you go to open mike nights
That doesn't help once the operators of formerly open mike nights have since closed their mikes in order to "monetize" them by requiring each performer to pay to rent a stage on which to perform. "Why should we let you place free advertising?" Nor does it help a musician who is a high school student or a college underclassman or who seeks fans that are high school students or college underclassmen, as open mike nights tend to be in 21-to-enter establishments.
play in the park, or sing on a street corner
This might work when two conditions are true: 1. you are advertising music itself, and 2. the music is in a genre that can be performed solo live. Condition 1 is often not true because the vast majority of ads that appear before music videos on YouTube are for things other than musical recordings or concert tickets. Condition 2 is often not true in the case of multipart/multitrack recording, electronic dance music, etc.
Fans of previous work can subscribe for free to the artist's web site.
How can "subscribe" be "for free"? If you're talking about h-feed, RSS, or what YouTube calls "subscribe", that's more like a "follow" on other platforms. "Subscribe" is more like Patreon. And if you in fact meant what I'm referring to as "follow", then how would the musician support his continued production of music?
In the case of Netflix, it's not paying for a computer program as much as paying to rent movies and TV shows.
In the case of other categories of program that are traditionally proprietary, such as jurisdiction-specific tax preparation tools and video games, how else would you recommend to cover the cost to house the developers?
It's seriously strange, right out of the videogame console world or some bullshit like that.
Why do people put up with it on video game consoles in the first place? Because consoles are harder to screw up than a personal computer. Likewise with iOS devices.
On the other hand, the labels in the RIAA are one tweak in US law from losing their own exclusive rights.
Nobody ever made a bunch of money selling DVDs of music videos.
Except PBS, which has offered Animusic videos during pledge drives.
the observation that the peer community is too effective at getting the word out about which products suck and which products don't
Without advertising, how does the "the peer community" learn that a new product is available in the first place?
If everyone blocks ads, all of the high-quality Internet services we use will go away, or become subscription services.
And nothing of value was lost. Back in the day there was a service called Adult Check, founded on the principle that adults could pay for nice things. A subscription to Adult Check was good for hundreds of different sites. Subscribers paid a $10 per month flat fee for access to all participating publishers' sites, which got divided among their operators per page view.
Those who long for the pre-ad Internet do not remember the pre-ad Internet. Or have very narrow and unusual interests.
Slashdot caters to some of these "very narrow and unusual interests."
FWIW, my YouTube has no ads, on any platform. I achieve this not by blocking the ads, but by paying for ad-free service.
That depends on having been born, or having qualified to work on a skilled immigrant visa, in one of the few countries where YouTube offers the ad-free service.
It's not "time to live" or "transistor-transistor logic" or "thank the Lord" or "time to leave" or "ta ta love". As for "text to landline", I addressed that: "others can [relay text to landlines] but charge a hefty premium per message." If you meant something different, please clarify.
Many numbers cannot send or receive text messages, such as landlines or home cellular service. Some of these carriers cannot relay text messages through text to speech; others can but charge a hefty premium per message.
I'm not sure what you mean here. Do you mean that an adapter meeting the Battery Charging spec or its successor the Power Delivery spec is not a "USB charger"? Or do you just mean that the vast majority of power adapters on the market with a USB A or C receptacle materially fail to meet the spec?
In the past, other Slashdot users have suggested replacement names:
- GNU Image Editor (GIE)
- GNU Raster Editing And Touchup (GREAT)
- GNU Image Manipulator (GIM) with soft G to sound like "gym"
- GNU Image Retouching and Editing (GIRE)
- GNU Image Retouching Lab (GIRL)
- GNU Adaptable Image Tool (GAIT)
- GNU Users' Foto FudgER (GUFFER)
Not exactly a huge financial burden. My primary domain name runs me something like $12-$15 per year, and the offshore VPS that hosts my websites and email sets me back a whopping €15 (usually $17-$18) per quarter.
In other words, about $90 per year, plus however much it cost you to learn to securely administer this domain name and VPS. This is $90 per year plus hours of study more than just falling back to Gmail or Outlook.com.
I spent more taking my parents out to dinner recently than I spent in the past year on keeping a web-and-mail server up and running.
People for whom "out to dinner" means Chick-fil-A or Steak n Shake might not appreciate that analogy.
I bring this up with respect to the non-technical majority of people, not only technical people such as yourself and myself, because of the effect that scale has on deliverability. In order for a substantial fraction of Internet users to switch from Gmail or Outlook.com to their own domain, each such user would have to either learn how to do so or pay for managed domain registration and email hosting that is one-click easy. And without wide adoption of email from personal domains, the too-big-to-fail email providers can decide it's more profitable to reject email from personal domains as acceptable collateral damage in the war against unsolicited bulk mail.
I first encountered the term "linear park" when studying the greenways that surround some bicycle trails. For example, the Fort Wayne Rivergreenway is a flood control park that forms the backbone of the city's trail network.
Where do you think the payments for credit cards are deposited?
In a bank that need not have a physical branch or deposit ATM near the place of business, such as an online-only bank.
I haven't written a paper check in years.
My home state adds a surcharge for payment of annual income tax through anything but a paper check.
The amount of possible on-call time is limited by law
An opinion letter from the Wage and Hour Division of my country's Department of Labor states that on-call time is not compensable unless it is determined that the employee cannot "use on-call time effectively for personal purposes". It drew a line between a medical equipment repair tech who gets paged about five times a week and a firefighter who gets paged about five times a day, each of whom was required to remain sober and show up in 20 minutes. The opinion letter gives an illustrative laundry list of U.S. case law.
If you claim you can't exist without a smartphone then you need to take a hard look at your life and your priorities.
And for anyone who develops smartphone applications for a living, being able to test the application you're developing is likely to beat having to find a different job.
but the computer is usually more expensive and less portable.
Only because manufacturers killed entry-level 10.1" laptops in fourth quarter 2012. In addition, good luck training for (say) a programming job using a phone unless you dock it to an external keyboard and monitor, at which point you might as well buy a low-end 11.6" laptop, such as a Dell Inspiron.
For the access, you can use a land line, which is also (usually) more expensive and less portable than an entry level data plan.
Even after you pay overage fees? It's a lot harder to get into overage fees on an entry-level cable data plan, which provides 1000 GB/mo (source: Xfinity by Comcast) than on an entry-level data plan from a cellular carrier in the United States.
You may find computers with free public internet, but even then, getting there may not be free.
Walking to and from the public library during regular hours is free unless you have a substantial mobility impairment.
Until the movie ends and you discover that your manager has been sending you increasingly irate texts and/or voicemails asking why you haven't addressed an URGENT!!!!11 issue with whatever system you are paid to maintain.
I'm rarely on the road
Others' habits differ. For example, they may have a bus commute of an hour each way to and from work.
$1000 (pretax) per year
My cell phone cost me $120 to buy, and it costs me less than $50 per year (on average about $4 per month) to run. This is because I chose a plan with few voice minutes or text messages and no data.
2) I don't have to worry about losing it.
3) I don't have to worry about it being stolen.
4) I don't have to worry about being robbed for it.
5) I don't have to worry about whether its battery is charged.
[...]
10) I don't have to worry about breaking it.
11) I don't have to worry about it being hacked/malware.
Instead, you have to worry about the six of these with respect to your non-phone pocket computer, non-phone digital media player, or non-phone portable satellite navigation device.
12) I am never bothered by people or robots via it.
If your employer required you to carry such a phone (with such a plan) in order to take elevated support calls after hours as a condition of continued employment, would you quit?
What do you do when a web application requires you to receive a code through SMS in order to begin or continue using the web application? For example, some users of the Twitter microblog host report that Twitter locks an account for alleged automated violation of its rules after a certain amount of use until the user provides an SMS number and enters the code in a text message sent to that number. Some such services can make a voice call instead of SMS, but Twitter allows only SMS, not voice. Do you instead choose to give up all the relationships that you maintain through that web application on the first such roadblock that you hit?