If only there was a toggle called "Available offline" in Spotify (yes, premium, and also thus not ad-supported like the ./ summary incorrectly claims). It would be so great. Why haven't they implemented it already.

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Nokia has been doing these entry-level phones (before the MS acquisition) for years, and profitably. Very thin margins, naturally, but volume can make up for it. I should hope MS has not managed to lose all that expertise in such a short time. In these kinds of devices, you don't really expect much (if anything) back from app sales.

Offend by stating a fact? Religious types are apparently easily offended.

<voice style="Teal'c">Indeed<voice>.

Pretty much any online game requires PS+ - there are some exceptions, most (all?) subscription-based games don't need it, and some F2P games work without it. Personally, I hardly ever do online multiplayer, but still find PS+ to be worth it for the free (ok, this being /. so surely someone will nitpick about it - not free as you are paying a subscription but you get the point) games and cloud saves. YMMV.

Yes, this. Single-player games worked just fine (even PS+ games as I've set my console to be primary). The only exception was DA:I - for some reason it wants to contact "Dragon Age servers" on launch, even when not playing multiplayer; but that was rectified by just disabling networking on the PS4. I suppose this would have worked in PvZ as well.

Back when Titanic was in the theaters (for the first time, so this was ages ago), a local teen music program released a list of requests for the theme song. "Will my hair go on" and "Will my hard-on go on" were my favourites.

Yes, Europe is a homogeneous entity with no differing opinions and policies whatsoever.

Cheers! That indeed works very fine.

Thanks for the suggestion, but I think even the app itself is region restricted (at least it says my S3, Xperia Z2 and 2013 Nexus 7 are all incompatible with it). And I'd reckon even if I'd sideload the app, the content would be locked away. A VPN might help there - but really, torrenting is just so much easier. Which is kind of my point.

Sure. I'll do it the minute I'm able to subscribe to the content, digitally, and that the content is reasonably priced. Until then, arrrrr.

(For the record between Neflix, HBO Nordic and Spotify I pirate very little. But for example Daily Show/Colbert - I used to be able to watch them from the web site. I even turned off my adblocker there as thanks. But now they block my country, so I torrent them. Viacom, get a clue)

"We're all wondering"? You and your side personalities? Glad you're finally coming to terms with it. You do realize, by the way, that by posting I can't mod in this thread. So I'm not the one modding you down. THEY are.

Most (all?) ABP users use blocklists that are updated frequently, the plugin itself doesn't change that often. And you can naturally add your own (regex-based) rules. Sure, it might work, for a little while. But it is ultimately futile.

Oh APK, I was wondering when you'd show up. So riddle me this. Getting around the paywall involves blocking specific JS files. That come from the same domain as rest of the content. So please, in your infinite wisdom, how would HOSTS file help?

There's a local (well, national) newspaper that I read frequently. They implemented a paywall (five free articles / month) few years ago - it's trivial to bypass, naturally, clearing out cookies or using "porn mode" does the trick, but why bother, a simple ABP rule works. However, in doing so the comments are hidden as well. Most of the time this is entirely positive, but I guess I have some masochistic tendencies; when there's a really controversial (or bound to wake up the retards) topic, I sometimes like to read them. Call it self-trolling (trollorbation?) maybe. And to do so, I use another browser (that I can just wipe clean as needed).

And oh-my-$DEITY. It is absolutely horrible. We're not talking just about a few ads here and there. The entire page background can change. Popups that use position:fixed. Fucking animated ads. I do realize they have to pay for the content somehow. Some sites I frequent, I might even whitelist them. But as long as no ABP means being bombarded with ads, ABP it is.