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I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora

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Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora

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Post by RexRollman »

Schwolop wrote: post #240
bad_user wrote: post #197

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Personally I don't do that. Unlike many technical people, I don't have AdBlock installed either. Giving a service attention and eyeballs in this day and age is like giving them money. It's actually worse, because you're the product and so they don't treat you like you're the customer. Even if they don't get money from you, even if you're using AdBlock, even if you are totally immune to advertising or any other means…

You're by no means required to login with facebook, and whether you do or not, broadcasting your activity to them is an opt-in.

That's interesting because I recall hearing that FB is tracking non-FB users too.

Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora

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Post by pseut »

rhizome wrote: post #251
dsl wrote: post #242

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Google groups should modify its robots.txt to avoid showing up in SERPS. Gmane was around first.

Gmane was not around first. Google Groups started almost a year before the gmane.org domain was even registered, and it was built upon the purchase of the DejaNews archives, which itself began in the mid-90s.

Deja News was a web interface for Usenet, not a newsgroup interface for mailing lists. I don't remember when google groups switched to a web/mailing list setup, but I think it was later than 2002 (when Gmane started).

Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora

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Post by mbetter »

Katelyn wrote: post #127
mickhagen wrote: post #119

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Here comes the mob. Really? Are we all gonna throw up our arms because of this? We use their service, we consume, read and digest their content like blood-suckers and now we get mad they're asking us to sign up? PG you've been reading Quora for "several years" and you think it's unjust they are asking you to sign up? Quora has let us eat at their house for years and now all they're asking is we take off our shoes bef…

I agree with this argument, but not necessarily the tone of it. Quora is a business as much as it is a consumer facing service with a strong mission to uphold. But the reality is, if Quora didn't keep its numbers out of the red and into the black by doing "annoying things" like forcing app downloads or account creation, then they would run out of capital and cease to exist. So, take your pick. Or better yet, just sto…

"Run out of capital and cease to exist" works for me.

Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora

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Post by Semaphor »

jaredmcateer wrote: post #204
bad_user wrote: post #197

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Personally I don't do that. Unlike many technical people, I don't have AdBlock installed either. Giving a service attention and eyeballs in this day and age is like giving them money. It's actually worse, because you're the product and so they don't treat you like you're the customer. Even if they don't get money from you, even if you're using AdBlock, even if you are totally immune to advertising or any other means…

I don't use Quora either but it's annoying when it comes up in a search when I need some help. I cannot wait for Google to fix their blacklist so I can add it to the list with experts exchange. (Before anyone mentions it, yes I know you can still get to the page to add urls to the list but it doesn't work, try it out.)

Yeah, w3schools is still showing up all the time -.-

Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora

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Post by shardling »

staunch wrote: post #88
markdown wrote: post #79

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Who's Adam, and what is his role in all this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_DAngelo

This is the second time in a couple of days I've seen a wikipedia link posted with the %27 character stripped out. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5208678)

Is there some browser or extension that's accidentally filtering this when you copy/paste a link?

Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora

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Post by gbog »

johnp01 wrote: post #154
mickhagen wrote: post #147

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Lol true.

Yeah, I think it's pretty common for Americans to believe anyone else who can type english is probably also living in America.

"Americans", you mean Cubans? Equadorians?

Really, you do not seem to be aware of the fact that or people leave in either Nothern or Southern amercian continent, and many of them do not speak English.

Each time any US citizen calls US citizens "Americans" it hurts the heart of hundreds of millions of people.

Shit.

Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora

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Post by gbog »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #181
johnp01 wrote: post #154

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Yeah, I think it's pretty common for Americans to believe anyone else who can type english is probably also living in America.

I guess it's still not a bad heuristic for them in 80% of cases, so this attitude prevails. HN, however, is quite multinational, so one has to watch out ;).

It is not a matter of "heuristic", it is a matter of basic respect you have for other people living in other places.

Re: I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora

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Post by mofle »

pg wrote: post #49

I think Adam's mistake here is to go too much by the numbers. He presumably has numbers that show that Quora ends up net ahead if they force people to create accounts to read answers. He grew Facebook very effectively by following the numbers. But he may not realize how different this case is from Facebook's. It may well be that for a site like Quora, at this stage in its life, users are not all equal. It may be a mi…

I just created a Chrome extension that removes the Quora login requirement: https://github.com/sindresorhus/quora-unblocker
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