wccrawford

That's awesome. I can't wait now.

Oh, I'm not trying to make it happen. I just think it's inevitable that someone will. And probably pretty soon.

That's an interesting idea. I'll have to see if I can do something of the sort and see if it matters. I have a feeling it'll still pop the stupid messages about connecting to the internet, but maybe I'll get lucky and it won't.

Thanks!

To add to this, my LG C2 kept popping up a message that I could use Alexa with it if I connected it to Wifi.

To kill that message, I did. Now it pops up advertisements in that same way from time to time.

If I take it offline again, I get messages about connecting it again.

It's effectively impossible to kill ads on it.

A couple years ago I signed up for an email provider so I could use my own domain and avoid Google being able to kill my email account. They've got a spam filter, but it's ridiculously bad. I've been looking for better ways, but still haven't found them.

Ironically, I'm hoping a free locally-run LLM will soon be able to filter emails appropriately. I haven't seen anyone trying yet, but I'm sure they're out there.

"we had an argument in a bar and I got up and left, then she sent the text,"

If you abandon your girl in a bar, you should absolutely expect to lose her, birthday or not. She is under no obligation at that point to consider his feelings about his special day.

They've been quietly preventing Firefox from becoming a threat for a long time. There are constant little things that just mysteriously don't work as well on Firefox, for no reason. People have changed the user agent and found that it works just like on Chrome with Chrome's agent. Youtube was doing it for a while, and reviews on the search are another instance. I was at the Dentist's and they were asking for a Google review, but I couldn't find the spot to leave it. I switched to Chrome and it was magically right where it was supposed to be.

So they already think Firefox could be a threat, and preventing ad-block is going to make it a bigger threat.

Because this is likely to drive a lot of people to try switching. And they're the type of people who try to convince other people to switch, too. Techies, etc.

When forced with trying to keep family safe from abusive and/or manipulative ads, this is a pretty hot topic. Plenty of people tell their family what browser to use and even set it up for them with ad blockers, etc.

I've recently had some experiences that tell me my parents are at a vulnerable age and can't fully protect themselves, so it's pretty important to have control of this.

There's a few things going on. At first blush, I agree with you. The vast majority of that stuff doesn't need to be captured.

But if you don't capture everything, how do you know you got the stuff that will be important or wanted in the future?

Also, historians are going to find that data to be an absolute gold mine. Unfortunately, a lot of it is in the form of video now and takes a ton of storage space.

I think, in the end, most people are not willing to pay the price to archive everything. But some are, and they're doing it.

I don't think they meant "you" you. They meant "you" in the general sense. They're saying that people either love it or hate it, with not very many centrists.

I'm not sure that's true, though. I think, like you, most people are either centrist, or have no opinion at all. The vocal people go all one way or the other, though... Except you for some reason. :D

Nice! Congrats!

FTA: YouTube’s global head of health, Dr Garth Graham, said: “As a teen is developing thoughts about who they are and their own standards for themselves, repeated consumption of content featuring idealised standards that starts to shape an unrealistic internal standard could lead some to form negative beliefs about themselves.”

And while I'm sure this is true, this is a minority of people, and they should seek help for their problem. There are far more who benefit from hearing about the benefits of a healthy lifestyle and how to achieve it.

They should already be hearing that stuff from their parents and teachers, but I have my doubts. And they're much more likely to listen to influencers than authority figures at certain ages.

But the whole thing is even more pointless. They're mostly influenced by seeing these beautiful people constantly on TV, movies, and Youtube, and thinking that they don't measure up to them. Simply stopping some health care videos is going to do nothing for the problem and only prevent videos with the information they need.