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What are ethical ads?

The more they claim they know about you the more they can charge for ads. I have recently realized that Google, Facebook and such are not only powerful because they aggregate data, but rather because they can sell their product (=your attention) to other companies very, very well. People often claim companies would not pay for advertisements had they didn't work — I claim otherwise; they pay for advertisements because Google falsely claims how effective they are and that's why they need to collect your data and be able to show that to their customers to boost their (Google's) sales. In other words they don't do that to sell the customers product well (the one that has been advertised) but rather sell their own product, which is ad space.

Better than DDG or Bing, but worse than Google

Well in such case I can see little rationale behind that

But why? Did they collect the notebooks to check the homework?

Ask him to eat more fruit, drink water and give up cigarettes

That I agree with

It is the best one available, but unfortunately lacks some basic features like autodownloading enqueued episode (you can either auto download everything or nothing at all)

Edit: my other issue with antennapod is being unable to listen to an episode of a podcast without subscribing. You have to subscribe. Even to open the podcast page you have to subscribe.

You can and it's called Previewing, just under the episode info when looking through the podcast catalogue or search results

It is, but Apple being Apple, they are going all malicious compliance and will break evening else for non-Safari browsers lol

Also this only applies in EU. To use 3rd party apps stores you won't be able to leave the EU for more than 30 days at a time as well

I still firmly believe there is at least one sane engineer there who'll discourage this, knowing this will drive the last few tech-savvy users and their family members and close friends away and I will die on this hill

It works 100% still as far as I can tell (my parents use Chrome with BO)

Yep, I use Firefox for the idea, but let's stop kidding ourselves that it is in any way memory efficient or fast

Which is unavailable on Chrome?...

I am and I hope to have everything unsalvageable cremated

But now they are photo realistic

It's different in Poland, because we don't normally use credit or debit cards for online purchases — we use Blik, which is a proprietary inter-bank payment system based on one-time tokens which are only valid for 2 minutes. You don't give your card information to Amazon or wherever you make a purchase (also compatible with regular contactless card terminals in physical locations) to charge you themselves however much they feel like, but rather provide a one-time code, confirm the transaction on your phone and you're charged immediately.

EDIT: oh and also it supports contactless payments via NFC on rooted phones so we got a workaround to Google messing with Gpay 8)

A Tesco where I lived introduced this system couple of years ago, but since they left the country entirely no other supermarket chain picked it up; not sure why, to be honest, doesn't seem much more prone to theft than regular self-checkouts.

Diacritics such as the mentioned by the person you're replying to are usually not implemented hardware-wise but rather require the OS to correctly understand key combinations. So you can't expect the system to simply interpret certain rare keycodes, because there are none.

While some languages may use special hardware keyboard with special physical keys for their characters, such as Swedish with their äåö on the right, other will use international qwerty with special characters implemented as combos, such as Polish with its ąśżźćńłó, which are typed using AltGr