andraganescu

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Managed multinational, distributed and local teams. Wrote the spec for the largest local enterprise CMS Launched my first SAAS web app in 2001 Founded my own web development studio at 22 y.o. Nice guy, loving husband, pet owner and quite an interesting person in general.
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Comment · 3 years ago
Ha. People are so different, I was annoyed and distracted by that since minute one :)))
Comment · 3 years ago
Indeed :)) the modern watches connect to phones for no reason other than to not cannibalize the phone. I accept that price - it'd be horrendous to market otherwise. But at least I'd love a device that is dumber but makes using it a better experience for me.
Comment · 3 years ago
Yes I think you are right except that it comes at the cost of a device that is anti-anatomy :) a bulge on your wrist to wear 12h ...

Maybe they'll refine and refine those sensors to make it flat? They still add weight I think?

Comment · 3 years ago
Yes. I think the market for a watch that is just a small comms device is tiny for the big players but not tiny for a smaller one?
Comment · 3 years ago
It's great at doing what it does: if you want it. I don't want it, nor its function, but I do have to use a device affected by it - bulky design, non ergonomic shape (nothing that attaches to a wrist for hours should have a bulge).

I want everything other than the physical tracking stuff. Maybe that will be solved by some super smart design.

Comment · 3 years ago
Never seen one. Says "Heart rate sensor" on the description - does that entail the tip of a sphere design on its back? Can I use contactless payments with it?

I didn't mean to make my post about Apple - but generally about a specific feature set watch:)

Comment · 3 years ago
> And that’s how we get ruscism: psychological complexes of something not deserving to be called a nation

> The sad thing is that all russians are infected by it in one form or another.

This post is nationalistic trash filled with inflammatory stuff and nothing of value other than the mental contortions of the author to be mean and upset.

Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
This is so amazing, I love all you people who take the time to do these super mega awesome tinker/fun projects and then share them with to the world!
Comment · 8 years ago
Oath's gdpr wizard îs torture. I hope they will pay their share of fines for it, just to compensate for the time wasted ...
Comment · 8 years ago
# What if we had an Advertising ID API in the browser?

With an Advertising ID I could be in charge of the things I want tracked about myself, an opt in participation, not only a generic yes or no, instead, a detailed approach on tracking.

If I had an advertising ID that the browser allows me to manage, and which would be common across all browsers, there would be definitely no need to have that much effort thrown away at identifying Internet users with all kinds of trickery.

1. I just provide this advertising ID to all advertisers by default. 2. Then I choose what I want tracked. THE BROWSER then tracks said items in an anonymous mode, transmitting non identifiable information only (such as product names, SKUs, Page contents, even links but say in a screwed up order). 3. Then I can ban advertisers or networks that show me crap. One by one.

It would be a shared effort.

The user will do some work, but they will have the tools required for the work. The banning and defaults will be scriptable and people could solve 80% of the problems with easy scripted actions (via browser extensions and such). Advertisers will have to work with anonymous details, but they will be able to precisely target people, after they solve the math involved with working with irregular data sets.

Advertising is the financial engine of the Internet and all this rage against it won’t make it disappear or behave nicely. Browser vendors need to work together and they need to do so in the same way they did it for so long: to implement open web specifications.

Advertising is just another kind of technology that the browser needs to support!

Advertising ID would be a solid base for all the freemium content to have the legitimacy required to block users who don’t provide a way in for advertisers. Once we get technology that is as safe as the Internet overall is, we can then teach people how to use it, and shut out sociopathic behaviour of money crazed folk to the obscure corners of forsaken random domain names.

The Better Ads Standards is just talk. We need tech that supports it and it should be a browser implementation of an open standard with an Advertising ID API. People will flock to the best support of a good standard. Everybody wins and competition stays healthy.

It is illogical to rip off the internet of it’s best lucrative asset: the capacity to target advertising with great precision. It is dangerous that for the same reason should the Internet become the looking glass of Big Brother. And the tech to stop this from happening, while maintaining money flow for Internet growth is easily achievable.

Do you thing an Advertising Standard with an Advertising ID API would make the Internet better?

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