dohpaz42
@dohpaz42@lemmy.world
Web Developer by day, and aspiring Swift developer at night.
- Comment on Astronomers discover technique to spot AI fakes using galaxy-measurement tools 3 months ago:
Just wait until Captcha starts asking this for a question.
- Comment on Firefox added [ad tracking] and has already turned it on without asking you 3 months ago:
No it doesn’t. But if they are to be successful, they do need advertisers to be on board.
I get it, we are currently in a polarized “all-or-nothing” cultural revolution. Compromise is the new four-letter word. But look around at other polarized ideologies and tell me they are all working out like people want.
What Firefox is trying to do is a good thing. And yes that means finding a middle ground where nobody gets everything they want, but also gets some things that they want.
- Comment on Firefox added [ad tracking] and has already turned it on without asking you 3 months ago:
I want to block them and not be tracked by them.
Nothing about this change inhibits your ability to block ads.
So where is my choice as the user of the browser that is running on my machine and using my internet connection and tracking my data?
That’s the thing: it’s NOT tracking YOUR data. Nothing about this ties data to you. It’s in the name: Privacy-Preserving Advertising.
If you think this will make one iota of difference in advertiser behavior then you must have been born yesterday.
And yet you’ve forgotten to wish me a happy birthday. How rude! 😤
- Comment on Firefox added [ad tracking] and has already turned it on without asking you 3 months ago:
Nobody likes being tracked by advertisers, and of course nobody likes advertising. It’s invasive, deceptive, and diminishes the user experience in every way imaginable. I’ll go out on a limb here and say that we can all agree to this stance.
Now, where I will disagree with you (and others that feel like you) is that Firefox is not pandering to advertisers. If anything, I feel they are compromising with them, with the user’s best interest at heart. Bear with me for a moment…
There is no arguing that Firefox made a huge misstep in how they’re executing this feature. They should have been talking about it long before the feature was released. That is a huge missed opportunity, and I for one can understand why people would have this knee-jerk “Firefox bad” reaction. It feels shady. It’s a bad look for an otherwise stellar product. Hopefully we can agree here too.
But I believe that if we all take a deep breath, and a step back, for a moment, then we can all see that in the long run this helps the user. No longer will advertisers need to rely on fingerprinting and tracking users. No longer will PII need to be sent to track conversion rates. It’s completely anonymous, and encrypted. And, it’s transparent to the user.
Will it work? Who knows.
But everybody running around screaming about how horrible of an idea this feature is and that everyone needs to disable this feature for no other reason than Firefox made a bad decision to not be more upfront about it, certainly won’t help.
And who would benefit from that? Advertisers.
Advertisers right now thrive on being deceptive, collecting PII, and fingerprinting mine and your behavior. They have invested billions on their infrastructure and networks. If this is successful, it will suck for them. But if it’s successful, it’ll rock for us.
- Comment on Firefox added [ad tracking] and has already turned it on without asking you 3 months ago:
Has anybody actually looked up Privacy-Preserving Advertising?
This is Firefox’s attempt at removing PII from advertising. This is the opposite of what all ad networks do. The browser keeps track of what ads you’re shown, and whether you’ve visited the advertiser, and encrypts the data and sends it to an aggregation service that will then generate a report for the advertiser.
This is a trial service that they are currently testing with a small number of advertisers. This is probably why it’s opt-out. They need data to determine its effectiveness. Could they have been more upfront about it? Sure. Are they evil for doing it? Not a by a long shot.
Put your pitchforks and torches down. This is a nothing burger right now.
- Comment on Google exploring options against Microsoft's licensing practices, Google cloud head says 3 months ago:
That article sounds like the author took a different article and ran it through AI. But according to gptzero.me it’s 99% human. Go figure.
- Comment on Google exploring options against Microsoft's licensing practices, Google cloud head says 3 months ago:
- Comment on Newspaper Drops Paywall, Moves To Reader Patronage, Generates 37% More Revenue 4 months ago:
In the first three months since dropping the paywall, the newsroom welcomed 1,254 new donors who hadn’t previously paid to access their coverage. From December 5, 2023 to March 15, 2024, the Forward received nearly $583,000 in donations under $5,000 — a 37% increase over paid subscription revenue during the same time frame the previous year. In December, the month the Forward removed the paywall, the nonprofit saw a 103% increase in reader revenue under $5,000, compared to the same time last year. That includes 176 new monthly recurring donors, averaging $16/month. Previously, an annual digital subscription brought in $51.21, just over $4/month.
Wow! Let’s hope this becomes a trend for other newspapers.
- Comment on Oral-B bricking Alexa toothbrush is cautionary tale against buzzy tech 4 months ago:
I hope that in the very near future, there are anti-trust suits and//or legislation that does what the car industry did many years ago with parts availability. It’s just good business to make sure your products work as if it were day one. Otherwise, I agree with the gentleman in this article, and would never buy such products from these companies.
- Comment on For the second time in two years, AMD blows up its laptop CPU numbering system 5 months ago:
Apple occupies a unique position: it’s the only company putting its own processors into its own systems, and the company usually only updates a product when there’s something new to put in it, rather than reflexively announcing new models every time another
CES or back-to-school season or Windows version[WWDC] rolls around.Tell me you know very little about Apple without telling me you know very little about Apple. 🤣
- Comment on ISPs can charge extra for fast gaming under FCC’s Internet rules, critics say 6 months ago:
I believe it was mostly Verizon and Comcast, and they still do it to this day.
- Comment on Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment 7 months ago:
I have to wonder if the irony is lost on the author with how ad ridden and barely usable website they posted this article on. Replace Smart Devices with Websites and the article mainly remains the same.
- Comment on (I wonder if he knows about lemmy)1 divided by 0 (a 3rd grade teacher and principal got it wrong), Reddit r/NoStupidQuestions [4:51 | Dec 02 2023 | bprp precalculus] 11 months ago:
I’m not super great at math, and the concept of division by zero has been somewhat confusing for me. It’s also been a bane to my existence as a programmer. To me, in both scenarios, it makes sense to get back the original number, because 0 equal parts and zero inches wide leaves the original pizza untouched. But I also accept that there are much smarter folks out there who know better than I do, so
undefinedorNaNis what it is.Thanks though for explaining it!
- Comment on (I wonder if he knows about lemmy)1 divided by 0 (a 3rd grade teacher and principal got it wrong), Reddit r/NoStupidQuestions [4:51 | Dec 02 2023 | bprp precalculus] 11 months ago:
If I have one whole pizza, and I divide it zero times, then wouldn’t I still have one whole pizza? I.e., shouldn’t
1 / 0 = 1?