essteeyou @ essteeyou @lemmy.world

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You're the one who has convinced me to go back and give it a try. I'll try not to hold it against you if I dislike it.

Amazon tried this, they're specifically a shop, and they couldn't make it work.

I'm not doubting you, but when you say "most historians" what do you mean? I have basically no knowledge of this subject, but I'd like to know more and I know better than to take some random comment at face value.

Got a link or a citation?

What list is this?

Maybe so, but those windows have never been close to this long, so I'll believe it when I see it.

I'll believe this in 7 years.

You can serve generic ads, which pay less, requiring more ads, reducing the quality of the product.

Like me, a man, getting tampon ads, for example. The tampon company doesn't want to pay to target me, but if the ads are generic then they have no choice, so they pay less per ad placement, which means Meta earns less, so they need more ads.

Here's the problem I see with that: What do you think their sites/apps would look like with un-targeted ads? You get less revenue from those, so you'd need more of them.

I find it a tough one, because they offer a product/service that costs a fortune to maintain and operate, and if they can't make money from your data then what do they do? Not having your data harvested is just a side-benefit of paying for the thing you use a dozen times per day.

If they couldn't use your data or charge then it would shut down.

You wouldn't run a business at a 100% loss.

I don't understand why people think digital things should all be free.

I guess I'll throw away my Fire TV, my Android phone, and my PC, so I can spend a small fortune to watch F1... or fuck that.

If only Google and Apple could offer more...

Guinea Pig is on the BBC's list of 50 foods to eat before you die. Or it was when I started eating my way through it years ago. I think it's the only one I haven't had.

You can connect other devices to your TV, like anything from a Nintendo Switch to an entire laptop/PC. Obviously they have their own privacy issues, but at least on a real computer you have some agency.

That's not how the law works though. You can drink whatever alcohol you can legally buy the second you turn 18 (in the UK). The same applies for sex at 16. Maybe you don't like it, but 16 is the age of consent for sex, with whoever else is legal.

It only makes sense in the context of the movie, but it was "how deep is the ocean?"

I won tickets to an advanced screening of Submarine with a Q&A with Richard Ayoade afterwards.

I got to ask the final question and made Ayoade and the audience laugh, which is a minor high point in my life.

I mean, in this economy, what's one first-born even worth?

If Ryan Gosling gained 100lb...