One trick I use is to hover over the link. Sometimes the missing piece of information is in the URL, then I can decide if I actually want to give them a click. For instance, "You'll never believe what scientist have found to cause headaches!".
Then the link will be "www.cnn.com/blah/blah/caffeine.withdrawl.headaches.html\
Sounds like your one weird trick is something advertisers don't want us to know!
Can we have our transparency back?
Until Microsoft has a production release, it's not even fair to compare the two.
Agreed. Not to use the old joke, but in this case comparing a pre-release beta build to a finished, released product is an apples to oranges comparison (or maybe apples to lemons would be more appropriate).
There should be a poll option for "I don't see any of these because I use an ad blocker".
The biggest clickbait I see is headlines that mention Apple or its iToys for a story.
No, try a MacBook Air, running iOS, but with a regular Ethernet jack on it, too.
Why the MacBook Air? Because its so lightweight and gets such great battery life now -- would probably do even better if running iOS instead of full OSX.
Why iOS? Because it's much harder for the average computer illiterate person to screw up the machine, and it still lets them get on the Internet, use Facebook, access email, and play games, which is all they really care about anyway.
Why an Ethernet jack? Because wi-fi simply isn't good enough sometimes. Also what if the wireless router gets its settings wiped and needs to be reconfigured? WPS is not the answer. Also Internet technical support is not going to troubleshoot connectivity issues over wi-fi and take the results seriously.
I have Adblock Plus set to block social stuff, too. Maybe it's filtering some stuff before Disconnect gets it.
I believe you're thinking of Ghostery, actually.
And that's if you have the Ghostrank feature turned on, which helps the makers financially, but it is disabled by default.
I prefer the old Battletech/Mechwarrior line from the 90's, "Information is Ammunition".
It's only a matter of time before the walkers go rogue and a special task force has to be formed to stop them.
You forgot the part where the task force is made up of high-schoolers, and a trip to the beach is required as part of the mission.
Are you sure that's sixteen separate companies?
Disconnect is showing 16 counters for me too.
- 12 content-related requests from Google
- 3 Google social-related requests
- One analytics request from ComScore
Looks like two companies to me.
I seem to remember there was a restriction that the iMac had to be turned on to act as a monitor. So you would be wasting the power of running the machine just to use the screen. Has that changed?
Vote with your money.
Yes, that's exactly what Comcast is going to do -- by giving a bunch of money to the only person who really matters in this whole thing -- the City Manager.
Tick this box to break the internet? Those kinds of options just cause user frustration. Security should not be optional.
How about those users not mess around with checkboxes if they don't know what they're doing to start with, leaving them for those people who do.
That's the whole point of segregating settings into "basic" and "advanced" sections.
This pandering-to-the-morons thing is starting to put all of us at risk.
He is supposed to HIRE someone that is. Just like you hire someone to install a water heater, or electrical lines. If you are deploying COMMERCIALLY, you should hire someone who knows what the fuck they are doing, or dont bother.
Most coffee shop owners are too cheap to do that. They'll just buy a basic home router from a retailer, hook it up, and then when things don't work properly they call their ISP and complain about how their Internet service problems are costing them business.
...look no further then this key $. Forcing corporations to collect data costs money, lots of it.
Yeah... like they aren't collecting the data anyway for their own marketing uses.
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