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Comment "Your license may take up to 48-hours to arrive" (Score 1) 164

Just FYI: After buying, you're greeted with
"Your license may take up to 48-hours to arrive in your inbox"

and
"Click the Redemption Link above"

I would never buy if knew this.

I'm sure it'll be fine, but I've been burnt so many times with this sort of situation, so I just want to warn you if you're cautious like me.

Comment = no low voltage grid (Score 1) 76

If the government owns the electrical grid and companies connect via things like wallwarts, then there's no coordination to create a situation where you can just plug your phone into a plane to charge it without a wallwart.

In fact, it means every phone needs it's own wallwart and there's no low voltage power supply at societal scale.

Comment To compete with barcode scanning apps? (Score 1) 224

A leap forward similar to hold to switch on and off buttons?

It's a great way to mess with people.

Barcode scanning apps have been taking with social sharing, outside of the manufacturer's control. Would be nice to get a handle on that, as a seller.

Likewise, it's annoying to get staff to mark things down manually; easier to obscure that expiry date.

Handy for hyperinflation too. Reminds me of going into the supermarket in the morning, NOT picking up that yogurt, coming back in the afternoon only to find everything in the store has price inflated so fast those eink labels, initially so expensive, start to make a lot more sense.

Comment Let's actually discuss the DETAILS (Score 1) 155

What saddens me about this discussion, which I see coming up time and time again, is that rarely is it acknowledged that it's a personal thing and sharing analysis is necessary for a decent, apples-to-apples discussion.

Shame there's no boolean search anymore!

Start by searching for heavily spammed keywords.

"Viagra":
DDG: drugs.com, webmd, medicalnewstoday, online shops. No forums.
Google: Similar to DDG but also has an info bar on the right side. Has wikipedia and the NHS on the first page.
Brave: Has a band called "The Viagra Boys" on the first page. Has forum discussion results on the first page; a handy trick.

Subjective winner: Google, followed by Brave. DDG does pretty well too IMHO.

Random, topical, hopefully controversial search term: "ukraine conspiracy"
DDG: vice.com, adl, usual big news sites. Top 3 card results were all USA news sites.
Google: Guardian, Euronews,
Brave: Wikipedia summary bar on the right. TheConversation link. Only one reddit link but that's more than the others.
None had anything from small sites, aljazeera, Russian, Chinese, Iranian, basically anything that side of the things.
Seems useless. Let's move on.

This is what I need to see here; more tangible discussion

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