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  • How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More...

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  • IIRC that's the whole point of luxury car commercials during half-time breaks. 99% of watchers can't afford one, but the ad is there to remind the owners of that very fact.

  • Mark Zuckerberg gifted noise-canceling headphones to his Palo Alto neighbors because of the non-stop construction around his 11 homes

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  • I hope they are wealthy enough to just move and leave a nice spite house right in the middle of his Xavier's school for psychopathic children.

  • It's really not that hard!

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  • On some machines PC games actually run better under SteamOS than Windows but sure, use the inferior OS if you insist.

  • Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux

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  • Many people love AI, I have a lot of acquaintances who actively seek out the best "AI browser" whatever that means. It makes sense for mozilla not to fall out this bandwagon just yet.

  • Where's my old hat

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  • As the dude from this picture, let me tell you that piracy was reeeally different 30 years ago (more like 25 for me). We were years away from DSL, downloading a piss-poor CAM rip of Star Wars ep1 took hours. Then you'd invest in a CD burner and exchange movies with your friends.

    When I cancelled my subscriptions a year ago, I found out about Jellyfin and the arr stack, took a couple of hours to set them up, and now I can download a whole show in a couple of taps while my friend is telling me about it, and watch it on my TV in 4K, or on my phone in the subway like 15 minutes later.

    Sure, the underlying methods of acquisition haven't changed much since BitTorrent came out, but the ecosystem is on a whole other level.

  • why

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  • Doesn't work for le lave-linge though.

  • Child bride faces execution in Iran unless she pays £80,000 in ‘blood money’

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  • Yeah, she was a victim of state and family-sanctionned pedophilia and child abuse, and she was trying to protect her son. In a sane country she would have been acquitted or given a slap on the wrist.

  • Return to the year 2000 with classic multiplayer DOS games in your browser

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  • Most geeks were running 2000. Windows was easy to pirate at the time, you just needed a valid key, no online checks or anything.

  • My "privacy" browser now adds an extra unique tracking URL to every link that I share, to advertise itself and track the opening rate

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  • Well I tried it before commenting, and I see the same thing as OP... I'm on Firefox stable 145.0.1.

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    As an asexual girl who still wants a male partner, would “scheduled sex” be a dealbreaker for men?

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  • I have a really hard time understanding how he considers any of that a problem.

  • SipsTea

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  • Very important step you missed: be scouted out by the financial elite early on, then have them groom you every step of the way.

  • My "privacy" browser now adds an extra unique tracking URL to every link that I share, to advertise itself and track the opening rate

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  • Sharing is much quicker than copy/pasting manually, especially with direct share targets.

    It might not be the end of the world, but Mozilla really should have made the "feature" opt-in, or at least give us a heads up.

  • My "privacy" browser now adds an extra unique tracking URL to every link that I share, to advertise itself and track the opening rate

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  • It's only for links shared via WhatsApp for some reason. Not sure how they know you're sharing to WhatsApp... (Edit: firefox implements a custom share widget instead of the one provided by the OS, so they get a callback when the user selects the target)

    OP is wrong about the "unique" part tho, I get the same URL as them.

  • Google Play announces its best Android apps and games of 2025

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  • I bought Dredge and finished it, it was really nice. But yeah I had to look for it after reading some nice reviews, the play store is a dumpster fire when it comes to discovery.

    I want to pay up to 10€ for a complete game. I don't want these "free" games where half the screen is littered with timers, microtransactions and a billion different currencies. I tried Underdark as I've seen it recommended multiple times, the gameplay is OK I guess but seriously, look at this shit:

    Each red dot opens a popup where you collect a miserable amount of currency. There are usually tabs and scrolling lists in the pop-up, you need to spend 5 minutes just to collect them all while avoiding the ad-supported ones because there's no way to come back to the game once the ad is opened.

    $31 for a weekly box?? Who the fuck pays for those??

  • If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director

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  • I’m tired of ‘free’ apps that are just trying to bully me into paying

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  • Even if the app is relatively simple and feature-complete, you need to go back to it at least once a year to make sure it complies with the latest guidelines/restrictions, replace deprecated APIs, and check dependencies for security issues.

    Simple enough for a calculator, but if the app needs to do stuff in the background, communicate with web services, play multimedia content, or use the camera, it can become very time consuming.

    It may make sense on Macs where users accept making a $10 or $20 one-time payment, but very few mobile users accept paying for apps at all, let alone $5 or $10. In that case, you need a lot of buyers or you'll end up maintaining it out of pocket.

  • I’m tired of ‘free’ apps that are just trying to bully me into paying

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  • Yeah, you can't expect devs to actively work on an app indefinitely just because you gave them a few bucks that one time. It makes no sense financially if the app isn't exceptionally successful.

  • Chatcontrol news!

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    To protect the children, WhatsApp will now scan all your messages for potential CP. If you don't agree to this, please check the following box:

    I'M A DEGENERATE PEDOPHILE AND I WANT TO KEEP MY CP PRIVATE

  • Gavin Newsom leading JD Vance among young men: Republican pollster

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  • Their source of "news" is tiktok. Newsom has a better meme game, that's all there is to it.

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