Innovations of 2018 • Hacker News Board

Re: Innovations of 2018

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Post by adtechdetected » Thu, Dec 27, 2018, 12:02 PM UTC

tomazz wrote: post #5

My desk got warm from the laptop overheating. No wonder. This page generated close to 900 requests and countless adware. Will we ever get "website optimization" on the innovation list?

I got android popups from the article asking if Firefox could have permission for my audio and video.

Now I wonder if you say yes to those once in your mobile browser if ad tech can use those permissions on any site to record you

Re: Innovations of 2018

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Post by otachack » Thu, Dec 27, 2018, 1:38 PM UTC

adtechdetected wrote: post #11

tomazz wrote: post #5

My desk got warm from the laptop overheating. No wonder. This page generated close to 900 requests and countless adware. Will we ever get "website optimization" on the innovation list?

I got android popups from the article asking if Firefox could have permission for my audio and video. Now I wonder if you say yes to those once in your mobile browser if ad tech can use those permissions on any site to record you

I've been getting that from a ton of sites. I'm not sure why it's happening nor have I dived in to find out. Wonder if it's a Firefox issue.

Re: Innovations of 2018

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Post by djmips » Fri, Dec 28, 2018, 6:45 AM UTC

The copy is not very well written, for example the part about the engine with variable compression has it backwards. The longer stroke lowers the compression which is favorable to the turbo.

Re: Innovations of 2018

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Post by tomazz » Fri, Dec 28, 2018, 8:29 AM UTC

adtechdetected wrote: post #11

tomazz wrote: post #5

My desk got warm from the laptop overheating. No wonder. This page generated close to 900 requests and countless adware. Will we ever get "website optimization" on the innovation list?

I got android popups from the article asking if Firefox could have permission for my audio and video. Now I wonder if you say yes to those once in your mobile browser if ad tech can use those permissions on any site to record you

yeah interesting question. Are you giving the permission for the domain or globally for the ad tech that asked it (assuming it was the ad tech but maybe it was something else from the site)

And if it was the site, why would they even want audio and video permissions?!?! They are a news outlet!