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https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

Again, im not naive enough to think that everyone can block all ads without consequence.

So I don't use sponsorblock.

If I'm that offended by a sponsor spot, I can always skip it (an option usually unavailable with typical ads) or just close the video. If you're pushing crytoscams, I'm pushing close.

This is a naive take TMHO.

Youtube has been rolling this out, phased, slowly, for the last few months. Judging peoples reactions and engagement levels.

They are only mildly foolish and know that ad block users are some of their most engaged and tech savvy. Just like ad block users generally know that youtube can't exist without ad, and if everyone used them, we might all be worse off.

Roll it out quickly, and you create awareness and ignite the fuckery out of the arms race, do it slowly, watch the engagement, and try to find the best messaging to bring "us" "back on side", and maybe they stand a chance to shift the needle.

(Firefox nightly + ublock origin for the record, had ad block messages on/off from Youtube for about a week)

Give it another 10 or so years and we'll be going even deeper

If you read below the fold in the article you get:

The team identified nine different types of polymers and one type of rubber in the airborne microplastics -- ranging in size from 7.1 to 94.6 micrometers.

It's also because the blocks form "Loss." The infamous Ctrl Alt Del comic.

Swiggity swooty climate change is coming for that booty

Honestly, I doubted this, and looked it up.

Why do you think in only a few years AirTags have become so ubiquitous, while tile has had nearly a decade on them, and are so barely known?

Really? Because the only ones I've seen have been based on the "Tile" system.

At last check: Requires everyone to have the system on the phone and turned on (Opt in vs opt out), and don't have user replaceable batteries (manufactured ewaste).

And your implied claim that Android is an open system and lets any developers in while Apple do not is also false, for example: https://www.momax.net/en-us/products/br5

I believe it was originally to do with focus, and applying "Shallow depth of field" effects, aka blurry backgrounds.

But now you can get cool features like, being able to scan things with your phone (for say 3d printing), but it's far more accurate than anything else on the market.

You should rethink how the "hostile" thing works, because that's not how interpersonal relations work.

I'd think of defending its accessories as things like; lightning/USB-C to 3.5mm jacks... which android phones also have.

At this point, airtags are all but a product unto themselves, except that you need an iphone to use them. But they are an incredibly cool product, which I can't use because I am not in the apple ecosystem (and haven't been since shortly after Steve Jobs kicked the can).

I could also point out that including LIDAR in their phones is cool, and has opened up new features and functions within various apps. You could also say that Crash Detection and Emergency SOS via satellite are "Killer Features" too.

But with all that said, attacking people over their opinions is very much a fanboy thing to do.

Iphone does have some cool, closed garden things, eg, airtags.

Yes. Android has alternatives, none of which are nearly as good as airtags.

Being able to use your phone with multiple screen sizes and formats depending on what you're doing.

Also: being able to put the phone at 90degs and use it as either a camera or flash light stand.

So it's only insider trading if they get it right? But not just kind of right, like, really right.

So it's only kind of insider trader because it's only 5%?

Mah, now he's retired he'll suddenly realize how terrible he's been all these years.

Climate change is real, we should help the poor, all that jazz, no more power to effect change.

While the engineers could have said that, equally Elon could have asked what the problems/downsides were to doing it faster.

Im here because im making a conscious effort because reddit is descending into "crypto moderator damnation bullshittery," not because it has cemented itself into habituality yet.

And im not sure it will at this rate, and that oeaves a goant stinking hole in my online habits of "using reddit but I'd really rather not be".

While it can be done well and with kindness to the cat, its also very easy to do with cruelty.