So I subscribed to Crave recently to watch a thing, and it turns out the "Premium" plan (as opposed to "Standard with Ads") should really be called Ads, Eggs, Sausage and Ads.

"That's not got much ads in it," to paraphrase the Monty Python sketch.

#crave #streaming #ads #spam

@0x575446 consider @monocles, which you can pay for anonymously and who on't do #ads at all

@[email protected]

Wenn #Ladesäulen das #Stromnetz entlasten - Thomas Speidel, #ADS- #Tec_Energy (233)

In dieser Folge sprechen Luca Leicht und Gerd Stegmaier mit Thomas Speidel #ADS_Tec über das Rückgrat der #Energiewende: #Stromnetze, #Flexibilität – und die Frage, ob #batteriegepufferte #Schnellladestationen den #Netzausbau sinnvoll ergänzen (oder nur vertagen)...

#Moove
@amsMoove

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7A7w6YJ2lBU

Wenn Ladesäulen das Stromnetz entlasten - Thomas Speidel, ADS-Tec Energy (233)

YouTube

A AD funded businesses is always going to priorities engagement above all.

Protecting the stock price is more important then safeguards.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqj9kgxqjwjo

#SocialMedia #safety #Ads

Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise after evidence outrage drove engagement - whistleblowers

Companies allowed more harmful content on user’s feeds, knowing their algorithms ran on outrage, BBC hears.

BBC News

Get United Nations Home Security to protect your home!

#un #UsPol #War #Ads #Europe #israel

If you ever visited local feed on your server you probably understand why #Mastodon will never have #ads. No one, and I mean no one, would buy that inventory.

#Instagram not even bothering to explain *why* they’re retiring end-to-end encryption for messages is the real #WTF part 🧐:

https://help.instagram.com/491565145294150

#AI training? #Ads targeting? Govt snooping? WHAT? 😠

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47363922

#E2EE #Privacy #Meta #Messaging

Help Center

End-to-end encryption adds extra security and protection to your messages and calls in a chat so that only you and whoever you're talking to can see, hear or read them.

This is a fantastic, factual, very technical, but readable and understandable breakdown of why and how every news website is bad UI design and decimates your device with tracking, negotiating, and modal pop up hell.

https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit
#web #ui #ux #ads #news #media

The 49MB Web Page

A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

Subscribers to Amazon Prime Video with ads lose 4K support on April 10 https://arstechni.ca/tCzd #amazonprimevideo #streaming #Amazon #Tech #ads
Subscribers to Amazon Prime Video with ads lose 4K support on April 10

Amazon says its service requires "significant investment."

Ars Technica

Weekly block list report: 3,528 entries; 3,513 valid / 15 invalid; 3 deleted #ads #adblocking #blocklist #trackers #pglblocklistreport

List URL: https://pgl.yoyo.org/as/serverlist.php

Blocklist of hostnames and domains for blocking ads, trackers and others (format: hosts -- in hosts file format)