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rob200 , 4 days ago to Technology in Netflix mulls introducing free ad-supported tier. The circle is complete

They want to squeeze out that extra bit of profit and get the users that never subscribed on there so they can boast about improved numbers.

rob200 , 7 days ago to Technology in Mozilla has acquired ad metrics firm Anonym

Why does Mozilla need ad dollars? Firefox is open source? If they don't have a search engine what buisness do they feel thatvthey need this? Ads in Firefox potententially incoming??

If they would just stick with Firefox and nothing else they would be alright but they just keep doing things their userbase won't like. They keep rissing their own expenses, for what? And wonder why no one uses Firefox. I wonder why.

The android app is about as clunky like Chrome even though it doesn't need to be. Try other open source browsers like Lighting, which can view most modern sites and are just better made and don't feel clunky and slugish.

The day they announced vpn services I dropped from Firefox. Because now its going to be more expensive for them. And they did more since then.

rob200 , 8 days ago to Technology in Firefox now lets you choose your preferred AI chatbot in its Nightly builds

But hey, atleast we have Falkon browser. Except for being based on WebKit the browser itself isn't currently maintained by an ad company.

Is Mozilla still nonprofit or are they changing their moto?

rob200 , 8 days ago to Technology in Firefox now lets you choose your preferred AI chatbot in its Nightly builds

Where is the demand for ai on Firefox?

rob200 , 9 days ago to Technology in Microsoft really wants Local accounts gone after it erases its guide on how to create them

Boooo Microsoft Windows

rob200 , 13 days ago to Technology in Microsoft Edge nags users with a 3D banner to change Windows 11's default browser

Since you asked, and I commented on Lemmy about this before.

Back in the Windows XP and even Windows 7 days Microsoft was trying to sell computers to people. It had to convince people why computers are worth their time.

Fast forward to Windows 10 and now it's, "ok we now got an audience that's addicted to our operating system, lets see what we can get away with. We might lose like 1% to Linux and like 5% to mac doing some of these while most of everyone won't switch at all. and we increase our profits."

rob200 , 13 days ago to Technology in Microsoft Edge nags users with a 3D banner to change Windows 11's default browser

Microsoft could care less about your PCs resources when you're idk, playing some 4k or even 8k video games. What a joke, but for real, if any of you use WIndows at home and don't want to jump straight to Linux. You can (temporally jump over to Chromebooks, which will mostly work out of the box, and has support for Linux apps.

Chromebook's I would argue are perfect for getting users use to Linux apps without having to worry about losing any familiarity they might have with Something like WIndows or Mac.

rob200 OP , 13 days ago to Technology in WIth instant gratification leading to addiction (for me) on Social media and the internet, I'm considering trying the old fashion newspaper.

Someone mentioned Libby, which I used before I didn't realized they did magazine subscriptions, and that they are free and legal.

I'm trying out subscribing to some of these. including tech life news, and wired. Something like this where it's updated weekly with new news stories, but you have to wait to a certain time point to access is particularly what I was looking for, this might work out without having to use the newspaper.

rob200 OP , 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago) to Technology in WIth instant gratification leading to addiction (for me) on Social media and the internet, I'm considering trying the old fashion newspaper.

Good point with Libby, i'l have to check some of the library apps.

rob200 , 14 days ago (edited 13 days ago) to Technology in Used VPN for cheaper YouTube Premium? Congrats, your subscription has been canceled

I use to care, but then I just use Peertube.
Oh but there's not as much content on Peertube. Put the type of content you like on Peertube make a channel it is free. Another tip is, look for specific types of content, and not specific content creators. and if you happened to find a creator you know or knew, follow them on Peertube!

I have plenty of tech Peertube channels that keep me up to date on Peertube, and it's a type of platform that will never have ads or go a direction I don''t want it to as a whole in terms of federation of servers and being an opensource video platform.

Server can surely make some unwelcomed decisions, and I can just change servers easily. Better then Youtube no ads, and your experience does not get throttled.

rob200 , 15 days ago to Technology in EU chat control law proposes scanning your messages — even encrypted ones

I understand why people must protect their encrypted messages at all costs. But the government and others are going to keep using arguments like, "what are people hiding," or "what *could some people be doing to our children."

rob200 , 15 days ago to Technology in Internet forums are disappearing because now it's all Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.

I would had concern over internet forums disappearing back in 2015-2012, but now a days, I don't worry as much. if it wasn't being replaced by the fediverse. Well maybe not replaced, but it is an alternative that has some good activity surprisingly and still growing, thanks to Mastodons marketing. It's like an upgraded forums. And everyone can communicate no matter where they go on the Fediverse.

rob200 , 15 days ago to Technology in Majority of Japanese support government-run dating apps

I didn't know there *were government-run dating apps. Something I can research about. But this is coming from a u.s perspective. So in other countries, this might be common knowledge within their territory I understand that.

rob200 , 15 days ago to Technology in Meta To Use Public Photos and Posts To Train AI: Here's How US, UK And Europe Users Can Opt Out

Look, if the posts are on Meta's own platform, and if they say, in their terms of service they say they are aloud to reuse your content to deliver you services while still keeping you the rights. I don't think they are really doing anything illegal necessarily in the u.s.

Other countries absolutely should challenge this in court and find out if this is illegal I do believe the eu found out real quick.

rob200 , 15 days ago to Technology in Why do you have to install Usb-Drivers on Windows, but I never had to do it on Linux?

Linux has come along way, there was a time just getting Linux to run, and then to run apps on it was just unmanageable. I mean, you could do it but most people wouldn't want to compile the kernel. Nor would they know where to start to do that, coming from Windows XP or even 7. They'd ask, what's a kernel, and all you had was a terminal, and I assume the terminal wasn't as user friendly as it is now back then but idk about that.

Windows use to just work out of the box, Microsoft used to care back then because in my opinion they were just trying to sell the idea of just using a computer to people. Now that they got people using computers, most with Windows on it then they go to the next phase, make money. The product is less of a concern, but they want to make money off their users.

You can expect Windows to be more modern and up to date on corporate trends, but not so what you want as a user. They aren't trying to sell computers and operating systems any more, they already got people hooked to using their os, that's what they probably cared about back then.