Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the Radio? • Hacker News Board

Re: Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the Radio?

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Post by eru » Tue, Jul 12, 2016, 6:41 AM UTC

siddboots wrote: post #2

What'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.

My adblocker blocks the nagger.

But the video still plays.. I actually wonder how the coerce my Chrome to do that.

Re: Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the Radio?

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Post by unexistance » Tue, Jul 12, 2016, 6:44 AM UTC

siddboots wrote: post #2

What'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.

never noticed that, but I'm running uBlock + NoScript.

Re: Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the Radio?

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Post by djhworld » Tue, Jul 12, 2016, 6:45 AM UTC

I've recently returned from the British Grand Prix and resented the fact that my smartphone doesn't have a radio feature.

Had to invest £10 in a cheap plastic thing they sold at the circuit, while it did the job, I thought smartphones were supposed to be an end to having to carry around single function devices, in favour of the all-in-one solution.

Re: Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the Radio?

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Post by aluhut » Tue, Jul 12, 2016, 6:45 AM UTC

siddboots wrote: post #2

What'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.

Didn't see the anti-AdBlock nagger with ublock O.

Re: Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the Radio?

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Post by zenexer » Tue, Jul 12, 2016, 6:45 AM UTC

alex_young wrote: post #13

siddboots wrote: post #2

What'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.

Some of the more obnoxious sites won't let you read the full article (or any of the article, in some cases) without JS. Of course, you can just use some trickery to hide the overlay, but it gets pretty annoying.

Re: Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the Radio?

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Post by OJFord » Tue, Jul 12, 2016, 6:46 AM UTC

guelo wrote: post #12

OJFord wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Sorry, it's uBlock _Origin_. Not sure what the difference is, but I haven't done anything custom.

Re: Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the Radio?

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Post by zenexer » Tue, Jul 12, 2016, 6:47 AM UTC

geocar wrote: post #8

OJFord wrote: post #3

Wow, news to me. News that people in the USA can't, that is! I won't say it's a particularly common thing to do, but here in the UK you certainly can listen to FM radio on your phone, provided you plugin earphones to be uses as an antenna.

I'm in the UK and I have an iPhone. How do I do this?

As the article says, you don't: Apple seems to have an incentive not to enable/support it. Regardless of their reasoning, they're not commenting on the matter.

Re: Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the Radio?

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Post by djhworld » Tue, Jul 12, 2016, 6:47 AM UTC

OJFord wrote: post #3

Wow, news to me. News that people in the USA can't, that is! I won't say it's a particularly common thing to do, but here in the UK you certainly can listen to FM radio on your phone, provided you plugin earphones to be uses as an antenna.

* On some phones, for example the Nexus 5 does not have an FM receiver.

Well according to this anyway https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/gENfJPp...

Re: Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the Radio?

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Post by yyyuuu » Tue, Jul 12, 2016, 6:47 AM UTC

That is quite strange ... Here in India, most people own an android. And Radio App is pre-installed in almost all those phones. You just have to plug-in your earphones to start using it. I expected that behavior to be universal.

Re: Your Phone Has an FM Chip. So Why Can’t You Listen to the Radio?

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Post by mnsc » Tue, Jul 12, 2016, 6:48 AM UTC

ch4ck wrote: post #20

In 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.

Hittade muffaren!