wreegab
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Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
> Visit this site with "Acceptable Ads" enabled and disabled and you will see the difference
Nowwhere did I say pages with the x-adblock-key were not respecting the "Acceptable ads" setting.
I said that there are more whitelisted sites than just what is presented as the only list in the section titled "How can I see what you are allowing?" on ABP's reference page regarding "acceptable ads" [1].
Comment · 12 years ago
I pretty much all agree with all of Wladimir Palant's post.
But I also have one problem regarding Adblock Plus' "acceptable ads" openness.
When I read about their "acceptable ads" approach, I am led to believe the "acceptable ads" list contains all the sites which are whitelisted for purpose of "acceptable ads". I am invited to consult the list to see for myself which sites qualify.[1]
Problem is, many web sites are not whitelisted through that publicly available list, but through the x-adblock-key HTTP header (which is not something disclosed up front to users).
So in fact there is really a public list and a private list it appears (through the x-adblock-key header), while the public list is presented as all there is to "acceptable ads".
Comment · 12 years ago
> Oculus has used and exploited ZeniMax's technology and intellectual property without authorization, compensation or credit to ZeniMax
When I read this, my thoughts went to all the smart people who created something awesome while employed at a company and were never personally credited.
Comment · 12 years ago
You forgot:
6. Because this doesn't leave the interlocutor time (as in hours, days) to ponder and reflect carefully.
Email is my favorite way of communicating because it's how I can think carefully.
Comment · 12 years ago
I get "This page was deleted" from here.
Comment · 12 years ago
Another lesson for developers OP didn't list is: make the description of your app in the store part of the development tree, so that it can be reviewed by anybody if ever the app is removed from the store.
Comment · 12 years ago
> I believe channeling energy to make Ms. Rice leave Dropbox solves nothing
To me, your reasoning reads as "accountability solves nothing".
Boycotting Dropbox because of Ms. Rice empowers people to bring symbolic accountability on powerful individuals who have been shielded from being held properly accountable for their actions. So many examples of individuals threatened with decades in jail for really not much, while powerful elites are shielded against being held fully accountable for their roles in infinitely worst.
Comment · 12 years ago
That people will leverage this to at least bring some sort of accountability, I completely applaud.
Comment · 12 years ago
It sounds just like typical PR filling, which is supposed to explain why they brought her on board. Will people really buy into this non-explanation?
Comment · 12 years ago
Of interest I suppose in the context of your comment. Bob Altemeyer's - The Authoritarians:
https://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/
Comment · 12 years ago
I questioned that a population can be categorized in only two sets. It's unfortunate that a lot of people buy into this, and end up trying to be as faithful to one of the label as they can, just like a fan will dedicate himself/herself to a specific sport team for no good reason really than just picking a side and sticking to it.
Comment · 12 years ago
I don't get it either. I am an old programmer full of habits too I suppose, but I had no problem to adopt mandatory curly braces after reading the rationale for mandatory curly braces in Golang years ago. I would think the Apple bug was an even stronger rationale to adopt mandatory curly braces habit...
Comment · 12 years ago
I just noticed that if I switch to "https://", Flash-based videos are now served. Back to "http://", same video served HTML5. So this is it, "https" is the culprit (for whatever reason)?
Edit: On Chromium, "https://" or "http://" I get served HTML5.
So, could it be that Firefox somehow doesn't provide the proper cookie value telling the site to use HTML5 when using "https://" (I did set HTML5 pref with "https://")?
Edit: A cookie named "GED_PLAYLIST_ACTIVITY", used for "[e]ncrypted connections only", is used on Firefox only. I don't see this cookie on Chromium on an encrypted connection. So, there might be a link with the presence of this cookie and the serving of Flash-based videos.
Comment · 12 years ago
I got the pre-roll ad, yes, which was also served as HTML5. I tried clicking more videos from the front page, so far all HTML5.
A law to enforce one very specific business model is a terrible idea.
If only I could tip $2 the author for that video I watched and liked (like say, 10,000 other viewers) with as little overhead as possible... No donations, no subscriptions, just a tip with no further obligations. You think ad brokers would welcome this business model?