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[m4r35n357]

Sounds like a minor chuckle at best

Anyone tried it - I don't use chrome ;)

[Jeroen Braamhaar]

Re: Sounds like a minor chuckle at best

you does not "use" Chrome -- you are condemned to it; just like Internet Explorer.

I'll see myself out now. ;-)

[jake]

Re: Sounds like a minor chuckle at best

One doesn't use chrome. Rather, one is used by chrome.

[Kane]

Re: Sounds like a minor chuckle at best

"I don't use chrome"

In Soviet Russia, Chrome use you!

[seven of five]

Re: Sounds like a minor chuckle at best

Actually (Ironically), the russians have something better (as in, more able to browse the web [1], which might have been a core function of chrome some time in the past) than chrome.

[1] or, the parts of the web still available to them?

[jake]

Re: Sounds like a minor chuckle at best

You can use the Russian solution, too. It's called Firefox.

[Vikingforties]

Re: Sounds like a minor chuckle at best

Don't downvote this unless you checked the reference. It's at least as likely to be referring to the slightly dubious novel and Clint Eastwood film of the same name.

[Pickle Rick]

Well, that article didn't ad up the way I thought it was going to. I think I've been briefly rendered hopeful!

[doesnothingwell]

Search pages already have them.

Every search page mostly has a news, images, shopping buttons. When I want to shop I will click shop, until then piss off. Advertising agencies should be crapping themselves that we don't all figure this out.

[jake]

Ads?

What are these things you call "ads"?

[LJFox]

For anyone interested in the concept of magic as introduced by the dev, I recommend reading the works of Georg Simmel. Capitalism has used secular forms of magic and misticism to keep us in check for well over 200 years now

[the Jim bloke]

Artists actually expecting to be paid is the underlying problem

Advertising and media manipulators have manufactured this fantasy that art is a sustainable occupation.

If you believe that exposing your self indulgent fantasies expression is adequate grounds for other people to give up the fruits of their effort, you can live the life of a starving artist..

To succeed, provide a product that someone with disposable wealth is interested in, and have the technical expertise to do it better than any competitors.

[Bebu sa Ware]

"If we don't feed the advertisers, then we'll be forced to pay artists for their creative work."

That a promise ?

I like to think a winnowing of the legions of [bullshit] artists and the flood of AI assisted slop would be a good thing.

Just today, I followed a link to Tom's thingy with a browser on net without a DNS filter (a la pihole) and faced wall to wall animated ads - utterly unreadable.

Possibly with the asymptotic enshitiffication of just about everything the population might abandon the net as a source of information and quality entertainment. Which in turn might lead to a boutique renaissance in (paper only) technical and other periodicals.

[Sam not the Viking]

Re: "If we don't feed the advertisers, then we'll be forced to pay artists for their creative work."

My Institution's Technical Periodical, in paper, changed from being technical, written by technical authors, interesting, to bland copy provided by marketing and advertisers. It became so off-topic that I resigned.

I'm not sure that these learned societies understand that the people who look to the future, plan and buy technical products, are not influenced by drivel.

Rant over --->

[ComicalEngineer]

Re: "If we don't feed the advertisers, then we'll be forced to pay artists for their creative work."

My institution has an annual flagship conference, of which I was a member of the organising committee for over 10 years. Then the institution decided to replace the independent committee with one appointed by HQ at which point the quality of the papers went down and it became an advertising shitfest for consultants touting for business, with many papers being nothing more thinly disguised advertising presentations.

IIRC, there is a saying that only 10% of advertising is effective - if only we knew which 10%.

Actually I'd say it's more like 1%.

You can guess which institution from my user name and that I'm based in the UK.

[Sam not the Viking]

That old saying....

Advertising is effective. Say the ad companies. Mandy Rice Davis applies.