* Posts by Dave Hart

2 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Sep 2007

Google can kill or install apps on citizen Androids

Dave Hart
Unhappy

@ Focus, Please.

I'm thinking it was more for your ridiculous analogy of shooting someone in the face which destroyed whatever point you were making leading to the 'down-voting (like it even matters).

Of course, the presumption that your choice of username was the reason for down-voting (along with said username to be honest) betrays all confidence in you having anything useful to contribute to the debate.

On topic - The ability to remotely control a device which I own it without my approval is out of order. I do recognise the usefulness of the service though for the reasons touted in discussion. It should really be an optional service though - I would be happy to suggest to some users, (especially those who watch Twilight :p) that their phone is managed for them, but feel I could be trusted myself to manage a phone, and deal with the consequences if I don't.

Firefox-Google marriage on shaky ground?

Dave Hart

Ad blocking

I use firefox, but don't use adblock plus, I DO however use a flash blocker where I have to click the control to activate it.

I have absolutely no issue with most ads, even placing ads of our company on sites and signing up with banner companies.

I do, however, despise advertisers that are so self-obsessed they believe their content should mask the main content of the page. I also find it amazing that site owners will LET that happen.

1. Keep banner ads - they keep a revenue stream which is important to many companies

2. Remove the so-called 'crap-ads'. This can only serve to prune the saturated internet of a lot of low quality providers. if you're savvy enough to understand your customer you'll be savvy enough to know how to target the advertising.

I was also interested to note that the Danny Carlton page is using some web search optimisation tricks... This seems slightly hypocritical - I see it as 'I'll accuse ABP users of creating an uneven marketplace but I'll also use all the tricks to ensure an essentially information-free page gets coverage.". If you want to provide information - do it properly - don't provide it in off-white text after the end of the natural page content. Likewise, if you're not interested in providing information to support your argument - don't use the optimisation tricks just to promote yourself.

Incidentally some of the links he provided there were quite interesting.