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Cake day: June 27th, 2023
  • Madis@lemm.eetoTechnology@beehaw.org•WhatsApp head confirms ads in the messaging app are still in the works
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    1 year ago

    Because that way people thought they were directly paying for the service they were using, instead of being the product of said platform, having their personal data harvested and sold to the highest bidder?

    Are you saying that people perceived WhatsApp as better than SMS or better than Facebook?

    The red flag is to look at a free meal and not wonder what the catch might be. Especially to this day, with all we learned about what the tech majors do with all the data.

    That’s not my point. My point is why would the majority of the world do this when they knew it was going to be paid.

    I can’t think of other product examples where people would so gladly accept trial versions of otherwise free feature-equivalent services. Maybe WinRAR, but that could be replaced with any other product instantly anyway (no network effect), should it ever get enforce its trial.

  • Madis@lemm.eetoTechnology@beehaw.org•Stop using Brave Browser
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    1 year ago

    Who knows what skeletons are still hiding?

    Go and have a look? https://github.com/brave/brave-browser

    My argument is that Brave is a Chromium browser with questionable business goals, but it is also the most private and secure, open-source, mainstream* Chromium browser. These keywords cannot be said about Vivaldi, Ungoogled Chromium and many other projects unfortunately.

    That said, I primarily use Vivaldi because of its customizability and added features, something Firefox seems to reduce with every new version.

    • Not quite on Edge or Opera level, and no accurate data can be found due to the removal of unique user agent, but nonetheless I’d argue it is more popular than others of similar kind.
  • Madis@lemm.eetoTechnology@beehaw.org•Leo, Brave's browser-native AI assistant, is now available in Nightly version for testing
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    1 year ago

    For real though, how could AI be used to enhance browsing?

    Well, in the 90-00s search engines were taught to be used with keywords. Then Google started to make it work with sentences and speech as well. Now AI is supposedly* answering complex questions and getting organized data for you.

    • as long as the data is factual, which depends on your question, language model and availability of answers

    I personally think it would be good if people had access to AI the same way search engines exist, but most AIs are still locked down to an account or payment, mainly for accountability and marketability purposes I’d say.

  • Madis@lemm.eetoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's the point of buying new phones every years?
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    1 year ago

    I previously thought it would be a way to upgrade phones faster without losing (much) money.

    Say, you have a 800$ phone and you want a new 800$ phone. Most people would just buy a new one for 800$ (outright or installment, doesn’t matter) after 2-3 years. My idea was to buy a new phone every year, sell the older one for half the price and voila - you paid the same amount but got two phone upgrades.

    The problem with that logic is that reselling takes time, energy and luck to get the price you want, plus it is possible to buy new phones for cheaper by just waiting anyway.