Comment I like the ads (Score 1) 117

by Thomas Felder on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @04:26AM (#59456020) Attached to: YouTube Needs To Chill With Its Annoying Premium Spam

I would pay for the ads. Maybe a subscription where I always get to see the most expensive, newest ads from around the world? Sign me up. Ad-Week makes money doing that.

Comment Re:Welcome... (Score 1) 388

by Thomas Felder on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @06:03AM (#59434444) Attached to: The Flat-Earth Conspiracy Continues To Spread Around the Globe

Oh but do.

Comment Re:Bug? Accident? Sure it was! (Score 1) 92

by Thomas Felder on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @05:40AM (#59409402) Attached to: Facebook Bug Has Camera Activated While People Are Using the App

Hey I like the borg. What's wrong with the borg?

Comment You can force it to let you out of the bubble... (Score 1) 71

by Thomas Felder on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @07:48AM (#59256102) Attached to: YouTube is Experimenting With Ways To Make Its Algorithm Even More Addictive

...by playing into it and always-invariably clicking the first recommended video and nothing else, ever.

Comment Tobacco is a flavour (Score 1) 197

by Thomas Felder on Thursday September 12, 2019 @02:59AM (#59184348) Attached to: Trump Calls On FDA To Ban All Flavored Vapes After Mystery Lung Illness

Quite a complex one at that. It takes many different chemicals to create "tobacco"-flavoured vapour (and they still can't get it right).

Comment Russia OS (Score 2) 40

by Thomas Felder on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @06:51AM (#59128808) Attached to: Huawei in Talks To Install Russian OS On Tablets For Country's Population Census

So there is an operating system which is either Finnish or Russian called either Avrora or Aurora or ABPOPA which may or may not be either one of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ... and Reuters says: 'Aurora is Russia’s only OS and is not currently being used.' I'm very confused.