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Comment Slow learners (Score 4, Insightful) 138

You can tell me all you want about how the Ts and Cs in these purchases do in fact note that the nature of the purchase is a temporary licensing of the content for an undetermined time period... but I can promise you that the public in general doesn't understand that. They think they're buying a thing, not a license.

People still don't realize if it's in the cloud, it can disappear anytime. Unless you have a playable copy in your hand, you have no permanent ownership. Games, movies, programs, any online service, it's all the same.

Yet another lesson...

Comment Re:Social Media Uses have become negative (Score 1) 107

Great points. The way I see it, the unfortunate reality is that while older people who remember the early days of social media (which wasn’t even a term yet) and remember these platforms as a fun place to reconnect with friends and community, younger people who have never seen anything other than social media as it is now have no idea of what it used to be or what it could be. It’s unfortunate that corporate greed always wins out.

Comment Re:To speed up browsing (Score 3, Informative) 43

Like most here, I've been using ad blockers for many years and I'm still amazed at how much faster sites load when you block the additional crap. Depending on the site, sometimes up to 5-10 times faster - mind you, the important stuff does load first. Lazy loading (what a lame term) will be insignificant compared to ad blocking tech.

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