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Reading – Ad Blockers Are Being Paid to Let Ads Through

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

Gee, this doesn’t seem fairly crappy at all. Use an ad-blocker? Want that company to decide which ads you can see and which you can’t based mostly on who’s willing to pay them and agree to some “policy” that you don’t really get any say in as a user? That’s not exactly giving the end-user…

Watching your mouth

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

Lots of ideas floating around this weekend in the podcasts I was listening to surrounding the idea of what you say about the users you support. It all started with Douglas Welch’s podcast “Don’t Say It” where he talks about the possible consequences of getting not only getting caught “user bashing” but also the negative…

Back at it

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

It was a nice 4 day weekend, even though we spent all but the few hours we were at my parents Christmas Day inside the house. It’s still cold and icy here in Columbus, but they are promising us warmer weather starting tomorrow, so maybe some of this ice will, finally, start to melt! I…

Unveiling

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 4 minutes

It’s about time for the great unveiling of the new name of this blog. As you’ll recall I asked for suggestions and promised to give away a PC World subscription to the person who’s suggestion I used. Naturally, it turned out to be a bit more complicated than that. Two people sent in suggestions that…

Linked – Google deploys free Wi-Fi to Nigeria so it can show ads to more people
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Linked – Google deploys free Wi-Fi to Nigeria so it can show ads to more people

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

I mean, this is what Google does. It provides a number of different products, for free. The price for signing up is giving up some of your personal information so they can make money from targeted ads based on it. It’s the same thing Facebook does, the same thing the entire ad-tech industry is built…

In my ideal world..

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

Since it seems that I’m getting some grief over not liking Chris’ new design let me tell you what I would like. (Well, first I’d like it if you’d get my name right! But I digress…*L*) I would like it if I could set the font I want to use to read everyone’s posts. Or…

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