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Re: Show HN: Focumon – Turn your work into a multiplayer adventure

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I have my own variant, it's called bank account ;)

you should try Kids to Feed. Not only will you be more motivated, you literally won't be able to sleep.

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Re: Show HN: Focumon – Turn your work into a multiplayer adventure

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I checked their privacy page: >>Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track ("DNT") feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not cu…

That does feel really weird... "There's no exactly defined standard for how to not track you, so we're just going to track you anyway"

There's also the implied "we know this is essentially a standard and there are documented ways to receive the signal from the 2+ main browsers that everyone uses, because we called it by name"

I too believe it's likely just copypasta because this is everywhere, but until changed it is still their official stance soooo....

Re: Show HN: Focumon – Turn your work into a multiplayer adventure

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I see these kind of things as a sad commentary on how out of touch our lives have become that we need to invent a false sense of accomplishment to do anything. Imagining some poor office worker bored out their minds from data entry, trying to trick themselves into continuing, 'j-just one more pomadora and i get de magical, bing-bing yah-who! i-i hav only 344444 bingamons left 2 win da prize.' Yeah, gonna say, this is…

unfortunately there's no way to "opt out" of the hell we've created for ourselves so coping mechanisms which make it even slightly bearable are the only thing we can hope for at this point
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