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Shifty Pony posted:even if most don't care, there is definitely a market there and it is quite large just due to scale. if even like 10% of US Facebook users would be willing to spend $10 a month that's $2.6 billion. that's probably a low estimate of the number willing to pay - Spotify has 46% of its user base paying and amazon has 63% on Prime. in any other industry there would be movement to fill that demand, but there is essentially zero movement to serve that market in tech because it is entirely dominated by a few monopolies. yeah but there are no good free alternatives for prime or even spotify. most people wont pay. there have been a few attempts to replace twitter with paid platforms (app.net) when people get mad about the third party app api or whatever and none of them have gone anywhere i like the idea of a public internet search engine. you could justify it as an extension of public libraries. hell you could probably finance it with dod money just think of the soft power you would get abroad by subtly manipulating search results
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Pham Nuwen posted:i've read this several times since it first showed up and it's good, the whole talk is good 
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syscall girl posted:because of a thinking error i did a lot of g+ and now my calendar has goon bdays like every day of the year but with their actual and not user names its me im your friend chris mangoon thanks for the archives in advance
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anthonypants posted:lmao quote:I apologize for such a long letter - I didn't have time to write a short one.
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Media Bloodbath posted:that's about right. publishers often get cents on the dollar of the adspend. If anyone is interested I can try to whip up an effort post but the topic brings me back to an unpleasant part of my working life. id totally be interested in reading an effortpost but im sure most of the people here know it already and youd only be doing it for me and others who arent in tech at all and are merely curious poty posted:i like the idea of a public internet search engine. you could justify it as an extension of public libraries. hell you could probably finance it with dod money just think of the soft power you would get abroad by subtly manipulating search results even better would be the ability to use it for mass surveillance since thats what its already designed to do then it could be used for disappearing political dissidents
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poty posted:its me im your friend chris mangoon thanks for the archives in advance cool Chris! If you could just post teh dick pic to verify it's yours
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LastInLine posted:me and others who arent in tech at all and are merely curious i dunno you do you and all but maybe the fact that everyone here who's actually capable of understanding what these machines are capable of, have directly worked with these systems, and personally know the morally blank people who control them, is doing everything in their power to give as little information away as possible should be a teensy weeny hint that something is up. just me though. you do you ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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poty posted:i like the idea of a public internet search engine. you could justify it as an extension of public libraries. hell you could probably finance it with dod money just think of the soft power you would get abroad by subtly manipulating search results why just socialize the cost of such a system when you can also privatize the profits?
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LastInLine posted:i was actually thinking about what you were saying yesterday and i did think of an example i came across of ads that ive seen normal people detest and thats youtube ads. there is a way to pay to opt out of those and its my understanding that its not that popular. ofc idk if google actually advertises the fact that you can pay to get around it like if they tell you before during or after youtube ads that "if you just gave us money..." but knowing google they dont because that would be smart
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Gynocentric Regime posted:AFAICT, I don't see open Nazi content anymore. they might have just blocked some keywords, doesn't necessarily mean that they have stopped hosting nazi videos
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YouTube is a machine for self-radicalizing vulnerable people. its genius is that it’s not based on ideology, it is a best fit algorithm designed to channel individuals down the path to which they are most susceptible.
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The Management posted:YouTube is a machine for self-radicalizing vulnerable people. its genius is that it’s not based on ideology, it is a best fit algorithm designed to channel individuals down the path to which they are most susceptible. you need to buy yourself a diff avatar
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The Management posted:YouTube is a machine for self-radicalizing vulnerable people. its genius is that it’s not based on ideology, it is a best fit algorithm designed to channel individuals down the path to which they are most susceptible. The algorithm apparently wants to radicalize me through brodudes setting poo poo on fire in their parents' backyard and calling it "science".
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mrmcd posted:The algorithm apparently wants to radicalize me through brodudes setting poo poo on fire in their parents' backyard and calling it "science". what you don’t know is that’s how they train isis terrorists you’re already well on your way to being radicalized
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The Management posted:YouTube is a machine for self-radicalizing vulnerable people. its genius is that it’s not based on ideology, it is a best fit algorithm designed to channel individuals down the path to which they are most susceptible. i can’t help but hear this in zizek’s voice
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they finally got rid of the "revert to classic gmail" button in settings
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:they finally got rid of the "revert to classic gmail" button in settings
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:they finally got rid of the "revert to classic gmail" button in settings if i go into the site on my phone and switch to desktop it switches to the older version with the default blue links and white ui while the older version link switches to what looks like the old cell phone browser version wtf google lol
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:they finally got rid of the "revert to classic gmail" button in settings oh cool so soon my email will be stuck in ultra chunky font mode forever. i admit that 1920x1080 is not a very good resolution but it's needs-suiting enough for my personal desktop, except gmail's redesign is so fat in every way as to be unusable in my typical setup (firefox window half the width of the screen)
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Rex-Goliath posted:i dunno you do you and all but maybe the fact that everyone here who's actually capable of understanding what these machines are capable of, have directly worked with these systems, and personally know the morally blank people who control them, is doing everything in their power to give as little information away as possible should be a teensy weeny hint that something is up. just me though. you do you actually i look at it in exactly the opposite manner. just as id distrust a politician to tell me the best governmental policies to pursue ive found that those involved in computers are the least reliable source of advice for using them knowing how the system works and lack of morality behind it combined with technical knowledge just means those people are willing to work with elaborate and often anachronistic systems for marginal benefit. whether its worth that effort is primarily determined by the animosity toward the industry which is why their advice falls on deaf ears when given to a layperson
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omfg does Chrome seriously strip out the [url]http://[/url] when you copy a URL now holy gently caress you guys what could you possibly think this is accomplishing How is this anything but a purely user-hostile decision
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Sagebrush posted:omfg does Chrome seriously strip out the [url]http://[/url] when you copy a URL now
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Sagebrush posted:omfg does Chrome seriously strip out the [url]http://[/url] when you copy a URL now https://www.wired.com/story/google-wants-to-kill-the-url/
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google wants you to search for everything. if you knew the url you wouldn’t need google
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ArmZ posted:these av changes are loving me up yeah seriously. kyonko = fishmech is far too embedded in my brain
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i predict that they're going to start displaying a 'verified name' or something similar in the location bar, so you don't see forums.somethingawful.com, you see 'Something Awful Forums' and a green checkmark. to keep the lists of verified names up to date, every time you hit a page it'll send the whole url to google servers to check. getting the verified site name requires you to register with them in some fashion. if you don't register it will show the domain and a poop emoji instead of a checkmark. they will claim this is to protect against deceptive unicode domain names or whatever. edit: they're already headed toward this by displaying the ssl cert's organization name when you go to some sites
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Plorkyeran posted:yeah seriously. kyonko = fishmech is far too embedded in my brain he knows the character's name?!?? get him!
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Sagebrush posted:omfg does Chrome seriously strip out the [url]http://[/url] when you copy a URL now afaict the opposite is happening if i copy the url bar it doesnt show the https but on paste it does (at least for this thread)
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