Is this the end of social networking?
As they all move to suggested posts and farther away from being networks people use for social.
What should we call the replacements?
Tagged “advertising”
The second Netflix introduces ads I would drop my subscription
Can relate to this. Avoiding ads most of the time I find TV ads very jarring
https://how-i-experience-web-today.com
Gross and too real.
Nike's End of Men
Many temptations of an open-source chrome extension developer
Reading this made me feel a little more justified in my general distrust of browser extensions. They have so much potential power!
Apple robbed the mob’s bank
The stats I've seen on this tracking toggle are pretty wild. Will be interesting to see how the next period unfolds for advertisers. If history is any guide they'll get even shadier and look for terrible workarounds, but we can dream.
Automated gradient generator
Disabling motd news
Disabling the news part (the pingback to canonical) is simple. Edit the following file:vim /etc/default/motd-news
Change ENABLED=1 to ENABLED=0.
Stop spammy kubernetes messages when logging in to server
It’s Time to Get Back to RSS
Hard to watch Twitter become less useful, valuable, and interesting with new ad insertion ratios
Interesting post/thread.
Insert more ads. Signal to noise goes down. Value to user shrinks. Value of user to advertisers decreases. Insert more ads. A vicious cycle that de-prioritizes the user experience.
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