[-] atrielienz@lemmy.world 15 points 5 hours ago

Not gonna lie, I'd rather not have to have a checker make minimum wage and be on food stamps.

[-] atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

The more you scroll, the more ads they can serve on one page. So if you scroll to the bottom, don't see the results you want, you're likely to try to reword what you were searching for which will bring up new results and more ads. When you think about the fact that 4-5 of the first results are ads generally (if not more) and you have to scroll past those to get a result that isn't an ad, you recognize that they are maximizing time spent looking at ads because that's what they are selling to their real customers (the ad services for whom they aggregate).

This scenario makes it more likely that you will click on a sponsored result, backtrack, scroll some more, not see what you're looking for, re-word your search query, click on maybe another sponsored result, backtrack etc.

[-] atrielienz@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago

The same ways Google Now and Inbox before them? Can Google stop rebranding shit it already gave us and then took away?

[-] atrielienz@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Good to know that at least in Germany there's something.

[-] atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

On lower end smart phones? It probably just slows the phone down less specifically because of how few processes it uses in the background. But I don't know. I'm not a lite UBO user. It definitely doesn't have the same number of features as the regular variant of UBO though.

[-] atrielienz@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

I have questions about how an age rating system would even necessarily be enforced even with rated games with a non-family account. It's not like steam knows the difference between a teenager and an adult who makes any account. You can literally just buy steam gift cards and pay for games without even needing a credit card or PayPal account.

The age rating doesn't do anything but assuage a groups fears and make the legislators look like they've achieved something for the public.

[-] atrielienz@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

The comma makes this title read very weird.

[-] atrielienz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My guess is that it's used predominantly by people who own budget smart phones. Having lite versions of apps be available to people who don't use thousand dollar flagships I think is kind of important. However, I intended the post to be informational.

[-] atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

This I actually agree with except that they tried to use their users as a cudgel against the company they tried to defraud.

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"The uBlock Origin Lite add-on was also accused of collecting user data and running afoul of privacy concerns, which is one of the big reasons why people switch over to the Firefox browser in the first place. Hill [the developer] responded: “It takes only a few seconds for anyone who has even basic understanding of JavaScript to see the raised issues make no sense.”"

[-] atrielienz@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Part of the problem is that Google now defaults to "All" (web, shopping, news, video, etc) instead of defaulting to Web only and allowing you to select if you want video, or shopping or news etc. That's a lot of what I see complained about most.

This is first and foremost because Google is an ad aggregation company and they literally want to keep you on the page longer to serve you more ads.

The second problem is that the SEO for Google is so abused at this point that it's laughable. Search engine optimisation was useful until companies and people started trying to hack it in order to have their results show up before competitors. Because large competitors also have money, it's no longer enough to just pay to play.

[-] atrielienz@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So they went Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich , Jellybean, KitKat, Lollipop, Marshmallow, Nougat, Oreo, Pie, and then 10 (Quince Tart), 11 (Red Velvet Cake), 12 (Snowcone), 13 (Tiramisu), 14 (Upsidedown Cake), 15 (Vanilla Ice cream), and then they started over at B for Baklava? Weird.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by atrielienz@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

Instead of blocking them, this extension speeds them up to x16 and also mutes the ad. Experiencing a 30 second ad in 2 seconds is pretty funny. And it works on Edge and Chrome.

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