As a general rule, if your site breaks because of that I go somewhere else.
Is gracefully falling back to a subscription prompt considered "breaking"? Otherwise, if every viewer were to block ads, how would a website's writers continue to eat?
20-30 MB of downloads happen in a flash on modern broadband anyways so I don't see this as a problem.
20 to 30 MB per page in a flash is a good way to blow through your monthly mobile Internet data transfer quota in a day, leaving you without mobile Internet access for 29 days until your cap resets.
The bloat is amazing, devs see no reason to optimize as everyone is on 4G/LTE mobile or 100mbit connections so data transfer isn't a concern.
Do users on 4G/LTE mobile stop visiting your site when they run out of Internet data transfer quota for the month?
Since ads pay for the pages, I am not sure what we can really do.
Some hardliners on this site have recommended that viewers stop patronizing websites run as a business and start patronizing more websites run by the public sector, by charities, or by enthusiasts as a hobby out of said enthusiasts' own pocket. What makes this practical or impractical?
bandwidth to the user is up 100 to 1000 times.
Is that per second or per month? I'm under the impression that a lot of people are still stuck on satellite or cellular Internet access with a monthly Internet data transfer quota in low double digit gigabytes or even in the single digit gigabytes.
Google Search used to offer a way to save what amounted to a list of -site: clauses to your Google Account for automatic use in each subsequent query. This feature no longer exists.
R. Edward "Ted" Cruz and N. Nikki Haley are as legitimate as H. Ross Perot and W. Mitt Romney. But then again, if Cruz's first name is Rafael, that makes him a Ninja Turtle's namesake.
Google Play Services on Android required a Gmail account prior to about 2012. Logging in with a Google Account at a non-Gmail domain produced an error message "user@example.com does not use Gmail" with an offer to create a new Gmail account. Since Android Market was renamed to Google Play Store, any Google Account has been usable, even Google Accounts associated with a non-Gmail address.
Nor do the alleged "lazy computer users of today" have to endure "Sorry, this application isn't available for your device's operating system yet" while waiting for the application to become popular enough for the application's publisher to make five different versions for five different operating systems.
In the alternative: How common is it for people to carry both an Android-powered phone to run native apps from Google Play Store and an iPhone to run native apps from Apple's App Store?
She should. The overwhelmingly more common case is that she does not.
One of the things adults do subconsciously when speaking to babies is regulate their talking pattern to a very specific way of speaking.
And your citation is where?
Follow citations from any article about "baby talk", "motherese", or "caregiver language". Start with this list of references.
I think the smart component and whatever data mining and propaganda it contains - or whatever additional digital purchases they expect the customers to make during the lifetime of it - are subsidizing that thing.
Bingo. Netflix and Disney pay TV makers kickbacks to preinstall their apps in expectation of future subscription revenue. Another kickback is the requirement that subscription apps process payments through the Internet-connected TV OS publisher's payment processor, at a substantially higher rake than the 3% of PayPal or Stripe. A third is the requirement that subscription apps provide some percent of ad inventory on ad-supported apps to the OS publisher at no charge, which I'm pretty sure is why the ad-supported tier of Disney+ is unavailable on Roku TV.
Remember all events that happened there while the TV was off. Didn't everyone's eyes constantly flicked to and from that screen, because it was the most prominent thing in the room? And constantly suggesting itself to be turned on? Or was it on all the time anyway, and everyone's conversation was against, instead or towards whatever happened on the screen?
In cases I've seen, the larger TV replaced a smaller TV below a wall of framed photos of family members.
So what size screen should people be buying instead? Should people choose their furniture by how easy it is to move across the floor to reconfigure a room between normal use and movie night?
Unlike me, many of my audience are Apple users, as are many of Spotify's customers.
And then denigrate Apple users?
That was never my intent. My intent was that even if I personally am not an Apple user, I have a good reason to cater to the needs of Apple users, in particular because they make up much of my audience.
Maybe using OBS to screencast to another system would work?
What display would be connected to the system receiving the screencast? Remember that we seek to avoid Internet-connected displays, such as Roku TV, because of arbitration clauses and other shenanigans that the publishers of operating systems of Internet-connected displays are pulling.
Last I checked, only Finder and iTunes software could take a backup from an iPhone or iPad, and Finder was exclusive to macOS and iTunes to Windows. This means backing up an iPhone to anything but a MacBook requires rebooting into Windows and waiting for Windows to complete its own updates. Is that still the case in 2024?
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