charlesray

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by charlesray 3y ago
We don't have a choice. That's how cable works, and YouTube TV exists for those of us who need it. They can't magically create an ad free broadcast of TNT or something. How would that even work? You don't have to like br
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by charlesray 3y ago
I think the confusion arises because people view "cable" as something that requires coax and a set top box, and they view "streaming" as anything that goes over the internet, therefore they mistakenly view YouTube TV as
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by charlesray 3y ago
No.
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by charlesray 3y ago
Cable TV broadcasts include both the network's ads and slots for the carrier to run their own ads. They're not inserting bonus ads on top of the actual content. Again, this is exactly the same as any cable provider has always work
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by charlesray 3y ago
Yes, and YouTube TV does not insert ads into those broadcasts. There's no ads in YouTube TV beyond what you would see on any other cable carrier.
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by charlesray 3y ago
Baffled by the number of people itt saying "I can't believe it costs that much and still has ads." It can't not have ads. It's cable TV, YouTube has zero control over whether or not it has ads. They can't broad
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by charlesray 11y ago
The bulk of these options were in 7 and 8 as well.
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by charlesray 11y ago
It's embarrassing how ignorant you are. Congrats on falling prey to fear mongering.
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by charlesray 11y ago
But they were already collecting that data. They're still collecting it on 7 and 8. You almost certainly use several other services that collect the same data, or more. The only reason you think Windows 10 is unique in this is because
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by charlesray 11y ago
Why would you ever do this?
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by charlesray 11y ago
First off, no, you do not need a website. You are a high school student. Slow your roll. Secondly, what you really need is an editor, because damn your site is riddled with misspellings.
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by charlesray 11y ago
You're doing exactly what Forbes wants you to do: fear mongering. Privacy policies are legal liability waivers. They are not statements of intent. There is absolutely no indication whatsoever that Spotify is harvesting your data and se
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by charlesray 11y ago
Awhile ago there was some major app, I think Facebook, that updated its Android version, and everyone freaked out because the new version required a seemingly-outrageous level of access. Some kind soul went down the whole list and explained
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by charlesray 11y ago
I THINK, and I could be totally wrong, but I THINK that on at least some platforms, when an app requires access to information stored locally on your phone, it's an all-or-nothing thing. So if Spotify needs permissions to local media f
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by charlesray 11y ago
"It's a plain cash grab at my expense." It is absolutely not.
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by charlesray 11y ago
"1) why shouldn't Apple collect the very same data?" How do we know they don't? Has anyone read the privacy policy lately? I mean, the only reason anyone flipped about Microsoft's privacy policy is because they took
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by charlesray 11y ago
My experience with panic about privacy policies is that they virtually always sound far worse than they actually are. For example, access to local files (contacts, photos, music) tends to be an all or nothing thing, and Spotify of course ne
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by charlesray 11y ago
You're complaining about Spotify's desktop app and yet you'd rather use iTunes? That's rich.
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by charlesray 11y ago
"I pay £10 a month to avoid this crap" I don't understand this concept. I pay $10 a month get rid of ads, to be able to use the mobile app, and to get higher quality streams. There was never any reason to believe being a paid
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by charlesray 11y ago
Facebook IS paying us: through the free use of their service.
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by charlesray 11y ago
The fact that otherwise intelligent people seem to genuinely think that AI would take over and run amok like the fucking Matrix or something is pretty ridiculous.
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by charlesray 11y ago
I wrote a reply to this, but you know what? No. Just no. You are clearly incapable of taking part in this conversation so just leave me alone. Your level of discourse is more suited for Reddit. Maybe check it out sometime.
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by charlesray 11y ago
First off, you should be ashamed at how ridiculous that analogy is. I'm going to assume you understand that it's completely and utterly inaccurate and irrelevant to this conversation. Secondly, suffering happens everywhere every d
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by charlesray 11y ago
What good does that do? For example, we fought a war to keep Vietnam free and democratic and failed miserably. The Communist regime only began to make meaningful change once we opened up to them.
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by charlesray 11y ago
I'm not saying he's more or less ignorant than I am. I'm simply saying that he is clearly and objectively an ignorant person. One of the steps we took to stop lion hunting was to have airlines ban the transportation of lion c
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by charlesray 11y ago
Aren't we constantly criticized for interfering in global politics? What the fuck should we do about Mugabe?
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by charlesray 11y ago
The sad truth is...we DO care about their people. And there is simply more we can do for their lions than their people. Because you can pass a law saying "don't kill lions," you can ban the trade of lion carcasses/trophi
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by charlesray 11y ago
But we did solve our own problems, that's my point. I'm from Indiana, where at one point 99% of the state was clear cut. Now if you look around there are forests and trees everywhere. Rebuilding nature wasn't easy, and it doe
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by charlesray 11y ago
Exactly, thanks.
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by charlesray 11y ago
>Don’t tell us what to do with our animals when you allowed your own mountain lions to be hunted to near extinction in the eastern United States. Don’t bemoan the clear-cutting of our forests when you turned yours into concrete jungles.

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