If you get the urge to try Capitalism again, you should take a look at Capitalism Lab [1]. It picks up from the original Capitalism series and adds a lot of UI enhancements / quality of life stuff as well as some new features and moddability.
I still don't understand this one. Yes, clicking a link can trigger what it's linking to. That's the entire concept of links.
You can also put a shortcut to a program on your desktop and - horror of horrors! - clicking the shortcut will execute the program! How crazy is that?
I get that some people don't want the markdown functionality in notepad (you can turn it off very easily, btw). But I don't understand why suddenly the idea of hyperlinks is being blasted as a terrible security vulnerability?
Surely there has to be more to this, in order to generate so much hubbub, than just people not understanding the basic concept of hyperlinks?
Yeah, we also have many highways with a speed limit of 80 and one with speed limit up to 85mph (~137kmh), so you wouldn't necessarily even be speeding.
Just put relevant ads locally and the problem goes away.
By that I mean, if you're a site about say, board wargames, and there's some new board wargame that wants to advertise on your site, ok. Edit your page to add an ad graphic with a link to the seller. That's cool. And maybe the people reading your page will actually want to buy it!
But there's just no way that third-party ads through some generic ad network will ever achieve that fit or reliability. And ads based on tracking people's data and suggesting things based on what you interacted with on social media or whatever? That's always going to be hot garbage at best. Adding in a third-party ad network (and probably behind that brokers and other middlemen) can't possibly make it better, it can only make it worse. So that's what we have today.
But go back to simple static ads relevant to the content of the page and problem solved.
Yep. The only time I ever had a malware-infected computer it was one of those drive-bys. You didn't even have to click through the link to the site advertised at all, the browser would just go ahead and start prefetching it, so in case you did, it would seem quicker. And meanwhile the Adobe plugin would just happily start executing whatever code came from it.
I had to thoroughly wipe my computer and the computers of two others that fell to the same malicious ads.
Now ublock origin is standard and no Adobe products are allowed.
I liked Starflight 2: Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula, and played it long before I heard of Star Control 2. But being from 1989, it could use a bit of a modernization remaster. I found the combat crazy difficult the last time I tried to play it, but maybe that can be fixed with the right Dosbox settings.
And the reason that it makes them more money is because that is exactly what the algorithm is designed to encourage and what it pays out the most for.
If we were still in the era where feeds were just a chronological list of posts by people you're subscribed to, that might be a little different.
But the feed is manipulated by algorithms that dump any non-toxic things away into obscurity while upranking and featuring the most controversial things in order to get more engagement. That's by design.
[1] https://www.capitalismlab.com/