Come on dude, you know exactly what he meant. Social media is a broad category, but when someone mentions it in this context, it’s very clear what they mean.
Come on dude, you know exactly what he meant. Social media is a broad category, but when someone mentions it in this context, it’s very clear what they mean.
Open shell or start 11 from stardock
Fun fact, the Foo fighters own all of their music. They’re one of the few if only bands that actually do. The main reason is the fact that after Nirvana Dave grohl had fuck you money. This is one of the reasons why that band is so special. For them it is all about the music. It didn’t start out as a struggle. All of their catalog is a passion project, and that’s pretty cool.
That said, I doubt a lawsuit would really go anywhere.
I doubt this has much to do with Google maps and more to do with Google being cockwombles in general.
Organic maps in the US is fucking awful and quite literally unusable.
Wow, there is approximately 2 people in these comments that actually read the article.
It is not targeted advertising. There is an entire writeup about it that you haven’t read (obviously). You clearly have no idea how it works.
Advertising tracking, but less creepy
First, we need to go over Firefox’s Privacy-Preserving Attribution, or PPA for short. Marketing attribution is the process for tracking how many sales, conversions, or other goals originate from a given advertising campaign. For example, when Nike releases a new pair of shoes, it creates multiple ad campaigns to market those shoes on TV, Instagram, and so on. Attribution is how Nike tracks how many shoes were purchased from a given advertisement.
The most popular way to track attribution right now is with individual tracking. For example, you might click on a web ad for the Nike shoes, and a cookie is stored in your web browser. If you buy the shoes, Nike’s store might check that cookie, so it knows which ad was responsible for convincing you to buy shoes. There are many other ways for attribution to work, but most of them use individual tracking like cookies, which allows other information to be collected with the marketing data. For example, Nike’s marketing people might want to know which ad you clicked on and your estimated age, so they know which demographics are buying the most shoes.
Mozilla’s PPA aims to build an attribution system without the creepy individual tracking. Sites can ask Firefox to monitor attribution for advertisements, and then later ask for a report, which is only provided in an anonymized collection “combined with many similar reports by the aggregation service.” For example, instead of Nike getting something like, “Billy Bob, aged 29, was one of 728 people in June who completed a purchase from the Instagram ad,” Nike would get something more like, “47% of the people who clicked the Instagram ad in June completed a purchase.”
There are other privacy and security measures in Privacy-Preserving Attribution, and Mozilla’s support page and Andrew Moore’s blog post explain it in more detail. PPA seems like a decent idea to track the effectiveness of ads without compromising user privacy in any meaningful way.
https://www.spacebar.news/mozilla-firefox-privacy-preserving-attribution/
Now that you know better, please stop spreading bullshit.
It isn’t tracking, ffs. It is anti tracking if anything, designed to help advertisers get what they want without getting ahold of any of your data.
Stop spreading bullshit!
Mister Rod!
Grasping at strings.
Everyone knows vegetarians don’t have friends, therefore, they wouldn’t get invited to the barbecue in the first place. It’s a problem that solves itself.
That’s actually a good point that I forgot about, it’s tablet layout is/was dogshit.
More or less platform agnostic. No “algorithm”, which is… Honestly, Wonderful.
What the fuck are you on about? I don’t follow Rossman, I don’t even like him. I do like his product though. Dude has some weird ass libertarian leanings that are “eyebrow raising”, if I’m being generous.
The fucking OSI does not get to define open source however it wants. Open source means the the source is open to the public. FULL FUCKING STOP. The OSI co-opted the term open source, and people like you fell in line. What is it with people like you and purity testing software? That’s fucking weird.
I’m fucking sick of turbonerds with toxic opinions and zero coding skills telling developers what they need to do with their own code. The fact that they can’t code is more or less irrelevant, but it highlights how much more bullshit their stance is. If you want to control a license then write some fucking code and you can license it however the hell you like.
We do agree in one key area though, “influencer” is a cult, or something very close to it. This whole parasocial relationship bullshit is actively harming society at large. You can thank YouTube for fucking these things up btw. Other services have followed, but it’s YouTube’s (Google’s) insatiable lust for power and monopoly that have crippled society and possibly irreversibly damaged it.
Because it doesn’t hold a candle to Grayjay.
I have read the license. I read it when it first came out. Open source is open source. You don’t get to move the goal posts like the OSI has. You wanted the source to be available so that you could have a look at it and make sure nothing nefarious was going on or at least be able to tell what it does. You can, therefore be happy, and be quiet.
All of the stuff that I develop is the type of open source that you like, that said, you don’t need to try to browbeat developers into licensing terms that they don’t like. If they want to keep their source proprietary then that is fine as long as they make it available for others to have a look at.
Stop purity testing this crap. You do the entire movement a disservice by being a pedantic butthole. Furthermore you make people like me not want to make the source available to people like you. You damage the entire image, and you don’t even realize it.
The license isn’t the problem. You are.
The source is available. The source is open. OSI can go take a flying leap. Purity testing sycophants such as yourself are a boat anchor on forward movement (source: am an open source developer).
People like you are the worst enemy of open source, and you really think that you’re a staunch ally. It’s really Fucking sad.
I went through and relate to all of these.