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Comment Not worried much (Score 4, Interesting) 120

I am far less concerned with research about how I read than information on what I read and who I share it with being given to those in power. How I read may make for better written, more useful tomes. Information on what I read can be misconstrued and misused. Unfortunately, what I read has been a matter of record since long before data on how I read.

Submission + - ABC Streaming to require CATV provider subscription (go.com)

wbr1 writes: Apparently ABC, an over the air broadcaster that should get its primary revenue from advertisements, is going to require streaming viewers to have a paid cable account to watch new episodes of shows. Or you can wait a week. I understand the perverted logic behind this. The cable companies are pushing so that more people stay and not cut the cord. Thanks Disney.

It seems to completely elude companies like this, that the more restrictions and caveats they put on their content, the more people will pirate it. Will they learn, or will the buggy whip makers whip us all with bought laws?

Comment Re:Responsive Web Design (Score 1) 382

This is what I do. It just works. The main problem is getting the CSS right across all browsers can be tough, but as usual you settle for the majors and cover 95+ percent. Then yo do not have the nightmare of separate pages and sites for mobile with all the attendant linking issues. Just one site to rule them all and resize as needed.

Comment Re:Cyanogenmod, (Score 1) 133

Most of the free apps I use contain adds. I have devices running stock carrier versions and various ROMs including cyanogenmod. One of the absolute worst is the weather channel app.

Oftentimes there are deceiving ads for pure shitware in that app. Ads that look like legitimate errors with messages such as "Critical Android Error" "Click to repair". This is a mainstream app, by a supposedly reputable company, and it is feeding me malware ads. Why there is not some sort of vetting service for ads across all devices I do not know. So many companies seem too willing to accept a few pennies for fucking their customers. I do not mind some unobtrusive and real ads, but feed me malware whose sole purpose is to fuck naive users over and I will hate you for life.

I deal daily with people who simply do not know how they got 5 toolbars and 3 browser hijackers installed on their devices. Each one slowly reducing their security, injecting ads into search results, until finally they click on something really bad like a cryptolocker or FBI virus installer.

I do not know if the real shame is that there are companies that willingly feed this market, and accept its money, or that our government would rather spend billions tracking phone calls then preventing its citizens from getting assraped by con artists.

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