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Facebook Leads an Effort to Lower Barriers to Internet Access

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Re: Facebook Leads an Effort to Lower Barriers to Internet Access

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Post by hrktb »

> The companies intend to accomplish their goal in part by simplifying phone applications so they run more efficiently and by improving the components of phones and networks so that they transmit more data while using less battery power.

Isn't it already happening for a while (or forever, depending on the companies) ? Companies who cared about performance and responsiveness already work on optimizing their apps. Because more usage means more revenue.

Mobile OS and hardware makers already care about battery life and efficiency, because these are strong competitive advantages.

The rest of the effort seems to be into getting carriers to make Facebook/other companies requests out of quota, witch is not new and belongs more to marketing/sales strategy than anything else.

This initiative feels like some generic PR move with nothing special to latch on.

Re: Facebook Leads an Effort to Lower Barriers to Internet Access

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Post by s3r3nity »

samstave wrote: post #35
nivla wrote: post #32

Sad to see a lot of people being cynical about this just because Facebook is taking the lead. Facebook may have personal interest in it but if the global good is greater, we must learn to be appreciative. Most discoveries and inventions, heck even the space race dint start out of the goodness of heart; but aren't we glad they did? I am all up for anything that brings people new source of information. Atleast its bett…

FB is a front for the NSA at this point. Not willingly, perhaps, but by-proxy

By this logic, you can to toss all of Silicon Valley under the bus -- might as well dump my Hacker News account as well!

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Post by TeMPOraL »

rfnslyr wrote: post #21
mariocesar wrote: post #6

I'm sensing a new trend: short videos in the backgrounds. Other similar site with the same trend https://letshum.com/

I absolutely love videos in the background. Brings the page to life. If it doesn't lag my computer I'm ok with it. Anyone have any links to any good tutorials to embed background videos like this?

https://github.com/sydlawrence/jquery.videoBG

Found it when snooping around some New York Times webpage code ;).

Re: Facebook Leads an Effort to Lower Barriers to Internet Access

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Post by andyhmltn »

dalek_cannes wrote: post #41
samstave wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FB is a front for the NSA at this point. Not willingly, perhaps, but by-proxy

"They trust me -- dumb f *s" -- Mark Z. I think that should have been the cue.

As someone else stated: That was said when he was 19 years old

Re: Facebook Leads an Effort to Lower Barriers to Internet Access

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Post by biesnecker »

danenania wrote: post #46

Quite a high percentage of the people in the world without internet access live under governments with poor human rights records. In this new age of massive unscrupulous spying and data mining by governments, bringing the internet to new populations without making sure they understand the risks makes them vulnerable to unprecedented levels of tyranny. Any initiative that tries to expand internet access without addres…

Quite a high percentage of the people in the world with internet access live under governments with poor human rights records, too.

Re: Facebook Leads an Effort to Lower Barriers to Internet Access

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Post by rfnslyr »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #66
rfnslyr wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I absolutely love videos in the background. Brings the page to life. If it doesn't lag my computer I'm ok with it. Anyone have any links to any good tutorials to embed background videos like this?

https://github.com/sydlawrence/jquery.videoBG Found it when snooping around some New York Times webpage code ;).

Cool I'll take a look at that. Thanks!
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