From a perspective of a normal user? Awful. Now suddenly you have to pay to TWEET? I don't believe people will take this lightly, especially with the shit X pulled recently.
From a perspective of a botter? Probably also awful, but 1$ per year is not something a person in possession of a huge botnet couldn't afford to pay. Especially if X will relax in the comfort of this subscription and ban less accounts. That would make 1$ p/y really rather cheap when you also account for basic computing costs.
From a perspective of a normal user? Awful. Now suddenly you have to pay to TWEET? I don't believe people will take this lightly, especially with the shit X pulled recently.
From a perspective of a botter? Probably also awful, but 1$ per year is not something a person in possession of a huge botnet couldn't afford to pay. Especially if X will relax in the comfort of this subscription and ban less accounts. That would make 1$ p/y really rather cheap when you also account for basic computing costs.
I really liked Bandcamp, it was one of the easiest and most direct ways i could buy my music FROM the artists themselves. I sometimes would sit hours at my desk, listening to previews and buying what i found interesting enough. Certainly improved my taste.
From a perspective of a normal user? Awful. Now suddenly you have to pay to TWEET? I don't believe people will take this lightly, especially with the shit X pulled recently.
From a perspective of a botter? Probably also awful, but 1$ per year is not something a person in possession of a huge botnet couldn't afford to pay. Especially if X will relax in the comfort of this subscription and ban less accounts. That would make 1$ p/y really rather cheap when you also account for basic computing costs.
I think it is a bad move for Android interoperability. Samsung has its own AirDrop. Oppo has its own AirDrop. I don't know about many others but its frustrating to not be able to use a feature, because you simply don't know other people with that brand.
Especially here in Germany the Smartphone market is dominated by Apple and Samsung, so good luck trying to successfully use Oppo Share.
I think it would be a better approach to implement these sorts of features natively and not force them into those dodgy reskins but rather incentive smartphone manufacturers into using them.
>> Before the reliance on ad blockers, people turned to YouTube Vanced to enjoy a Premium-like experience for free. However, the service was shuttered in March last year due to legal pressure from Google. With ad blockers now seemingly on the way out, it looks like free users may only be left with the option of sitting through ads
That is simply not true. There are numerous alternatives to YouTube Vanced, including NewPipe, LibreTube or SkyTube. Only to name a couple. And then there still is invidious. So no, you don't have to sit through ads.
In Germany we also have a party called "Die Piraten", literally translated as "The Pirates". They fight for a free and open Internet but sadly we don't get that many votes. A couple of years ago they were in the Bundestag, but sadly they didn't have that much of an influence... I hope that someday we get there again, and maybe even collaborate in a coalition, but honestly, even I don't believe that.
This is great news! I just yesterday installed VanillaOS, and I did kinda miss the "Vanilla" aspect. I have that when I install Gnome on Arch. But you can really feel the Ubuntu under the hood.
> Twenty five years ago, it didn't exist. Today, twenty million people worldwide are surfing the Net.
As someone who didn't get to experience the early days of the Internet, this seemed to me as if the book was published sometime around 2000-2005. 1996! I didn't expect that many people using and enjoying the Internet so early on.
Wow, sometimes I do feel like this happens to me, but I assure myself the fact that I always (nearly and if I have time) weigh my decisions accurately. And if something goes to shit I can blame it on, well, still on me :(