Hmm..

"last month saw a record number of ad blockers uninstalled—and also a record for new ad blocker installs"

So.. they simply switched to UBlock Origin?

HP haven't always been this bad, but they are this bad now, and nobody should be giving them money.

Or actually do anything useful? No network, no filesystem.. it's a hello world app isn't it..

'confusion'. Yeah, right. Not a single person was confused. You went for the cash grab and it blew up in your face.

Now you're going to go for slightly less cash grab and because it's 'better' and 'we listened' everyone is supposed to just accept it. Been here before..

I'm sure it'll be a stylised X with serifs on each corner.

Possibly on a red and white background.

I'd argue some magazines are basically ad pushers wrapped around a thin layer of minimum effort articles.

Hell, most of them, when I think about it.

Google, though.. ads are their core business.

That's convenient..

Well yes, but that stuff contained hydrazine. It's not that sensationalist.

I'm just surprised the people making it didn't get jail time.

Stick to sites you know. If you're looking for a review and you get a hit on a site you don't know there's a better than 50% chance it's just an ad generated site (and frequently these days just the output from chatgpt).

Sucks for lesser known sites that are trying to get noticed, but unless google work out a way of removing the crap from feeds that's the way it is.

Same with youtube.. unless you trust the reviewer, assume it's paid unless there's good evidence otherwise.

Search for reddit/lemmy mentions specifically.. although those can be astroturfed too.. but the comments are generally helpful.

“As we deliver more value to our members, we occasionally ask them to pay a bit more,”

But you're not doing the first half, so you can't do the second half..

I bet they're just scanning the barcode.. image recognition is way more expensive.

Removing subsidies is a start.. they've never made any sense. If a company can't make money selling fuel then they must be the most incompetent company on earth.

This is just posturing for COP28 though.. makes good headlines but won't happen.. lots of countries talk tough before COP so they can claim it wasn't their fault when nothing is decided, again.

Either those entities are registed as charities or they're not. From a quick google it seems they are, so Unity is (again) talking shit.

You have to murder the other participants to claim your free netflix subscription.

I was taught how punch cards work and that databases used direct disk access. In 1990.

In college (1995) we learned Cobol and Assembler. And Pre-Object oriented Ada (closer to early pascal than anything I can see on wiki today). C was the 'new thing' that was on the machines but we weren't allowed to use.

The curriculum has always been 20 years behind reality, especially in tech. Lecturers teach what they learned, not what is current. If you want to keep up you teach yourself.

I wouldn't want to calculate what it'd cost to replace all my switches with 25G capable ones.. then all the network cards.. You'd have to have a really specific application to justify it.

Given the history of COP either one of two things will happen - (a) it gets rejected completely, citing some technicality like 'a bad comma in paragraph 36 that means the chinese delegate will never sign' or (b) it'll get agreed, then every country will proceed to completely ignore it.

“We do not share SAT scores or GPAs with Facebook or TikTok, and any other third parties using pixel or cookies,”

shows clear evidence that they do, in fact, share these things

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It gives google access to all the traffic statistics for users of chrome, not just those going via google. That's valuable marketing data. They also have made sure that nobody else can get that data - they have to buy it from google as they become the sole source of it.

That's why they want to do it.. nothing to do with 'privacy'.

Just before shutdown you're at the terminal so something like this https://github.com/stolk/imcat on the image at the end of shutdown script might work.