You know I hate this. The fact that they will autoplay videos with the sound off with the hope I'll turn it on is non-consensual data use. I get 0 benefit from watching some talking head with no sound, so why do you need to start loading and playing the video before I've consented to watch it? I live in an area where data is often slow, metered/throttled/capped. Please stop WASTING users data. It's not a free and never-ending resource.
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#262(Seriously) I wonder to what extent a cause is that the internet is US-dominated - because US (& Canadian) television is just like this too. Opaque and colourful channel logo that spins and barely fades, and advertising that pops up over the programme while it's playing! If that's your norm on TV, sure, why wouldn't a web page work like that? It baffles me just like OP, but no more than it does on television programm…
I'm old enough to remember a time before every TV station had a logo/watermark at the bottom right. In my mind, the logos coincided with the early 80s when VCRs became more commonplace. I suppose stations that licensed shows/movies, didn't enjoy the fact that people could record that content and reuse it. So... logos.
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#263You know I hate this. The fact that they will autoplay videos with the sound off with the hope I'll turn it on is non-consensual data use. I get 0 benefit from watching some talking head with no sound, so why do you need to start loading and playing the video before I've consented to watch it? I live in an area where data is often slow, metered/throttled/capped. Please stop WASTING users data. It's not a free and nev…
I'm sure some lawyer someplace would tell you that by visiting the site you are consenting.
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#264Not just news sites, either. A lot of fandom wikis run on the same platform, fandom.com. That site is a pain in the absolute fucking ass to use on any mobile device, specifically because of the autoplaying video that takes up half the screen on every page load . Weirdly, desktop is fine; no autoplaying videos or any such nonsense. It's only on mobile that Fandom has seemingly made a deliberate effort to make the user…
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I never realized wikia was so closely connected to the wikimedia. I'm a bit shocked.
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Who in tech do you hold up as an ideal persona? I'm not defending what happened to you. It's surprising to me that even someone like Jimmy Wales, who pioneered the most impactful knowledge-sharing project in the world, is vilified by some people.
> Who in tech do you hold up as an ideal persona? For me it is mjg59 and maybe Miguel de Icaza, also maybe Linus Torvalds
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You got a cite for that? I’m not saying it doesn’t exist, but that seems horribly overengineered for what has been traditionally accomplished with tracking the average speed of vehicles using radar or vehicle detectors - they have had these signs long before smart devices were common.
I don't even think it's technically possible. Unless a bluetooth device is in discoverable mode it shouldn't be possible to identify them.
I interviewed at a place that managed traffic light behavior and they had a system to evaluate traffic efficiency by watching traffic flow through the whole area, tracked using ambient Bluetooth signals from phones.
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#267Somehow, I too see a lot of features that exists solely to increase the company's profit and only annoy customers. I always wonder why they think this is a good idea. But then I remember I often implement those features as a developer. And sometimes, when I ask the marketing people or product manager, even they look to think it's a terrible idea. They are also forced to release something BS but can increase some KPI.
Goodhart's law kills again.
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#268Not just news sites, either. A lot of fandom wikis run on the same platform, fandom.com. That site is a pain in the absolute fucking ass to use on any mobile device, specifically because of the autoplaying video that takes up half the screen on every page load . Weirdly, desktop is fine; no autoplaying videos or any such nonsense. It's only on mobile that Fandom has seemingly made a deliberate effort to make the user…
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Angela Beesley hasn’t been associated with Wikia since 2012. I don’t know when this happened to you but the site has gone through a lot of ownership changes over the years.
And I don’t care what else Jimmy Wales has done, for profit or otherwise — Wikipedia is a goddamn gift and the world would be hurt tremendously if it ever shut down. It’s probably the only non-profit I donate to regularly.
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I don't think tech workers are making barely livable incomes.
Many of our parents had better lives overall despite less education, fewer hours worked, shorter commuting distance, etc. Yes, tech is better than most other jobs, but most tech jobs just give you the middle class life many people had 20-30 years ago (aside from the tech gadgets that didn’t exist 20-30 years ago that even the poor have now). In terms of large expenses and free time rather than gadgets, we’re no bette…
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#270Not just news sites, either. A lot of fandom wikis run on the same platform, fandom.com. That site is a pain in the absolute fucking ass to use on any mobile device, specifically because of the autoplaying video that takes up half the screen on every page load . Weirdly, desktop is fine; no autoplaying videos or any such nonsense. It's only on mobile that Fandom has seemingly made a deliberate effort to make the user…
It is incredibly annoying. My other "favorite" is AMP reddit which will autoplay some video with sound completely unrelated to the link you clicked on somewhere down the page. How the hell autoplaying video leads to ACCELERATED mobile pages I have no clue.