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Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the Radio?
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Re: Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the Radio?
#12What's going on with Wired? This page has an autoplay video ad below the article text and an anti-AdBlock full-screen subscription nagger that pops up a few seconds after page load.
No anti-adblock message with uBlock. That video (assuming we're seeing the same one) seems to be a short Wired production; unrelated content rather than advert.
I see the anti-adblock with my uBlock. Must be your filters.
Edit: yep, I just activated the "Anti-Adblock Killer | Reek" filter and it's gone.
Re: Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the Radio?
#13What's going on with Wired? This page has an autoplay video ad below the article text and an anti-AdBlock full-screen subscription nagger that pops up a few seconds after page load.
Just block the JS. I looked around for a JS blocker, and found ScriptSafe, which makes the web really usable. I turn on JS for the servers I trust, and sites like Wired and NYT just feed me readable text without any ads.
Re: Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the Radio?
#14AFAIK this is something that needs to be activated at the software (or rather, firmware) level, and is yet another argument for Free Software.
Re: Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the Radio?
#15What's going on with Wired? This page has an autoplay video ad below the article text and an anti-AdBlock full-screen subscription nagger that pops up a few seconds after page load.
If you happen to be using Firefox, setting the config variable:
media.autoplay.enabled
To false, disables auto play media everywhere.
Re: Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the Radio?
#16I always found this a weird omission from smartphones. I remember happily listening to FM radio on my ancient Nokia 8210, and probably the 3210 before that, and wondering why I couldn't do this on my iPhone.
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#17What's going on with Wired? This page has an autoplay video ad below the article text and an anti-AdBlock full-screen subscription nagger that pops up a few seconds after page load.
Same reaction here... they made me feel guilty about using adblock, I was nice enough to disable it, then that unrelated video kept on playing, and they popped up another message saying thanks...
Who's in charge of this? ugh...
Re: Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the Radio?
#18Besides the debate, I've ditched smartphones (for productivity and ecological reasons) in favor of a Nokia featurephone and I'm surprised by how much I'm listening to the radio on it. Not knowing what you're going to hear is a pleasant experience in these days.
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#19I just bought an internet radio for my stereo (yes, I'm that old, I have a stereo). I was surprised to discover it also had a wire in the box that turned out to be an FM antenna. I thought with internet radio, who needs an FM tuner? (all the local stations have streaming URLs)
Turns out I actually like it. It's handy when the internet fails, or when you're nearing data caps, or just want to run it all day without interfering with download speeds, or you don't want the NSA to know you like disco music (Edit: oh.. crap!).
I suppose long term FM is dead, but meanwhile it has its uses.
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#20In my country one has to pay to the regime for using/owning "radio/tv receiver". That's why I am happy to have more devices without unblocked analog FM. It means for me more choice without having to pay for the brainwashing/propaganda.