harshvoldy

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YouTube just made it harder to avoid ads with a tiny skip button (www.androidpolice.com)

harshvoldy , 7 months ago

But that individual ad impression that someone paid for that I did not click (or blocked) does not know that.

I am not so sure about this part. Google and Facebook have contracts with credit card companies, payment terminals, big chain retail stores, etc. to connect purchases made at retail stores to digital identities of the buyers. Of course, a lot of the details of these contracts are carefully kept private. The physical purchase instead of online purchase is not enough these days to stop the tracking.

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Christopher Nolan Wants Oppenheimer To Be A Cautionary Tale For Silicon Valley (www.theverge.com)

Christopher Nolan Wants Oppenheimer To Be A Cautionary Tale For Silicon Valley::Christopher Nolan spoke on a panel about his new film Oppenheimer and how he hopes it can serve as a warning to scientists and those developing new technologies.

harshvoldy , 11 months ago

Maybe a tad bit too late.

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Absolutely loving the variety of UIs/styles for every fediverse application

I am an old internet user. One of the things that used to drive me nuts was when all these corporate products like Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc. would change their entire UIs on a whim without any user feedback. I am a big fan of the pre-material design language UIs that did not contain any shiny/glossy elements of...