Apparently this was a UI glitch or dishonest reporting by the person that told Android Authority.
https://9to5google.com/2024/07/08/google-maps-pop-up-quick-detour-ad/
Apparently this was a UI glitch or dishonest reporting by the person that told Android Authority.
https://9to5google.com/2024/07/08/google-maps-pop-up-quick-detour-ad/
All of these types are articles always leave out the calculations of what your time is worth to you and the maintenance costs of spare hard drives and other equipment. The TCO is not just the initial investment in hardware/software alone. Unless you plan to host something unreliably and value your time at nothing. In which case I hope you don’t get friends or family hooked on your stuff or everyone will have a bad time and be back to Google Drive/Docs and Netflix within 5 years.
The reason they leave it out I feel is because once you factor all of that stuff in the $10/month your paying for Google Drive storage or the ~$25 your paying Netflix starts to make a lot more sense when pared with a decent local backup from a Synology NAS for the “I can’t lose this” stuff like baby pictures of your kids. Which blows their entire premise out of the water.
They can try, but it is unlikley to work for long. So my general reaction is:
I’m surprised there was no further validation or approval for that kind of money beyond “find the right person and socially engineer them.”
And here I thought I had a lot of hdd platter coaster’s.
To me, things like ChatGPT are just more efficient ways to search sites they scrap data from like Stack Overflow. If they ever drive enough traffic away from their sources to kill the sources the likes of ChatGPT will become mostly useless.
Yep. People in general have an aversion to doing anything that encourages positive change if it is too inconvenient to how they have become accustom to doing things.
Companies like Alphabet are very aware of this fact. Once the limits of the push back becomes a few weeks of bitching online then everyone gets back to using the products and services, there is no reason to listen to the complaints of the users.
They frame it that way to reenforce the notion that ads are an inevitable thing.
The browser company in question is primarily funded by the advertising company in question.
No.
The way Brave goes about making money seems more shady to me than Google. Google tells you exactly what they are going to do if you’re paying attention, Brave on the other hand spends its time trying to convince everyone that they are more privacy focused than the likes of Google because they have a more off the radar money making scheme with all of the Crypto junk.
If they are not doing something underhanded with it already, they are one management shakeup from starting to.
I just bought my own hardware and loaded PFSense. Put the ISP modem in bridged mode to disable all of their nonsense.
I set the DNS servers I want in PFSense and that filters down to everything on the network.
Mine stays on 24/7/365 unless I am going to be out of town.