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Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login
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Ads on Amazon Prime are infuriating. And I can't help think how annoying it must be for people with disabilities. My other bugbear are the auto playing videos on Netflix and the use of massive spoilers in episode thumbnails. As a single consumer in a vast ocean I don't think my opinions will ever be listened to. Right now it's worth putting up with this crap as the benefits outweigh the cost but if it gets any worse…
> My other bugbear are the auto playing videos on Netflix and the use of massive spoilers in episode thumbnails. You can actually turn off "Autoplay previews" now. You have to log into your account from a web browser, and then look at the Playback settings for the profile you want to change.
oh cool
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Same with the ads for Amazon videos on Amazon Prime. They are ads and I don't want ads. But they don't see it that way (don't get me started on the forced watching of texts on Blue Rays).
The worst - YouTube TV They show you ads for YouTube TV, literally while are you watching TV with your paid YouTube TV subscription. How many ad dollars are just being flushed down the drain...
This is meant to be a replacement for normal cable....which also shows ads. As far as I know there is NO live cable service that is ad-free.
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Same with the ads for Amazon videos on Amazon Prime. They are ads and I don't want ads. But they don't see it that way (don't get me started on the forced watching of texts on Blue Rays).
Pay for your content but then torrent the actual viewing experience. Problem solved - on all platforms.
I do torrent movies consistently even though I could watch them directly through my subscription, mainly because of two reasons:
A) Usually my VPN is active and I don't want to shut it down just that netflix/amazon allows my to watch something
B) I like setting the playback speed to ~1.1 of my media player, which is not supported by any streaming provider I'm subscribed to.
Re: Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login
#255why people would use oauth for services like this? I always use anonymous email
More convenient. No passwords, and better security. Everything is centralized (disadvantage too) Also, "why people would use anonymous email for services like this? I always use oauth"
as for password, I use password manager.
Problem with oauth that I can't make e-mail unique and I can't know where spam is coming from.
ex: user+dropbox@mydomain.com will be unique for that domain.
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#256I left dropbox when they changed the full page upsell to "dropbox business" so that I couldn't easily figure out how to skip it and get on with my work. I had a paid pro account at the time. I actually had a conversation with a product manager; I checked the yes you can contact me when I cancelled my account. They simply refused to admit that an upsell was a advertisement and that disrupting my workflow on my paid, p…
> they just couldn't grok the reason It's hard to make someone understand something when their salary (and entire reputation - given that increasing engagement/retention by X% is a big selling point on a resume) depends on not understanding it.
This is usually it! As developers, we have all worked on features where it was obvious that users wouldn’t want it, but the feature would juice some metric so it was prioritized. Some time between that initial meeting about how this will juice the metric and launch, Product convinced themselves that users would actually want it and are not prepared to accept the feature’s failure. Finally, when indeed users don’t want to use it, it would get pushed at them repeatedly, through sales and through dark UI patterns. Tale as old as time...
This is what happens when you plan your product not from user need but from company need.
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#257I really wish mobile OSes would allow you to grant apps permissions but serve fake data, (that's important!) without giving the app the ability to tell the difference. Just so it appears to the app that you've given the permission, when you in fact have not. This would solve this entire class of problems and then some. So, for example: - App "has" access to contacts, but the system returns that you have none. - App "…
LineageOS 16 used to have this feature. I really miss it. https://forum.fairphone.com/t/transitioning-from-los16s-priv...
Sad to have just learned from that link that Privacy Guard is gone. That has indeed been a key Cyanogen/LineageOS feature for me for years (my phone is still on 16). I can't say I understand the decision to remove it.
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What you can’t turn off is the bit where they drop you into another trailer when you’ve just finished watching a series after months of investment. A little time to digest would be real nice.
Every single video app I have on my AppleTV: Netflix, Amazon, Criterion, even Apple’s own TV app, shrinks whatever you are watching down to a thumbnail just before the movie or show ends. I fucking hate it. Yes, I’m one of those weirdos who sits through to the end when the copyright rolls past and gets pissed off when the lights come on at a theater during the credits. It is incredibly disrespectful to the film. This…
> It is incredibly disrespectful to the film.
I found this attitude a bit confusing. The film makers are not there, who are you showing respect to? Also, do you read each crew members name? If not, what's the point of sitting through it?
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I’ve looked at Nextcloud, however it seems to be missing a key feature for me - the ability to store files server-side only. I want a google drive / Dropbox hybrid solution, where I can keep some directories synced and others permanently on the server. Does anyone know a solution that allows me to self-host something like this?
Nextcloud works exactly the way you want, so you may be thinking of something different. Maybe Syncthing?
Syncthing allows you to sync some folders and not others.
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The worst - YouTube TV They show you ads for YouTube TV, literally while are you watching TV with your paid YouTube TV subscription. How many ad dollars are just being flushed down the drain...
This is meant to be a replacement for normal cable....which also shows ads. As far as I know there is NO live cable service that is ad-free.
There are also normal ads for third parties. So not a replacement. They just also run their own ads.
And no, it’s not an ad placeholder. Because they have that too. There is a scene that says “you’re watching YoutubeTV, your show will resume momentarily” while a yellow ad bar progresses.
They aren’t also analog ads. You can tell when YTV is playing back an ad recorded within the show, vs when they flip the stream from content to ad content because the UI changes.
Nope, from what I can tell, they definitely just show their own ads to their customers.
When I had Dish, I saw a lot of DirectTV ads. That makes sense. But I never saw Dish advertising Dish. Maybe I just never paid attention.