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If you just block their ads, then how are they funding themselves with the model you propose? Their audience is privacy minded, so much more likely to block ads.
So they still need a revenue stream, and showing-but-not-showing ads isn’t it.
I also block all ads, to be clear. But I don’t think they’d be able to make money off ads, for that reason.
I also have been trying to convince people to try Kagi. It is so much better than google results, has no ads, and is very pro-privacy.
Only downside is that you have to pay for it, but honestly it’s worth it to me for how much better it is, and no ads or psychology against me is a big bonus
As long as a few of the niche communities that I care about can hit a critical mass on a lemmy instance somewhere, then I’m happy. Like, photography or endurance sports. I haven’t seen much of those yet, but hopefully we get there soon! Even just a thousand actually-active members is enough!
Unfortunately I’ll probably still use Reddit for their historical data for a while, but not logged in or posting anymore on principal.
We’ll see!
This is a cool photo!
My main critique is that there is too much light on the left. I think the composition would be stronger if the camera were closer to your daughter to show the light hitting her face, and possibly with more darkness behind her. The squiggly lights in the background are fighting for attention with your daughter, when it really feels like her silhouette (lit by the light in front of her) should be the subject.
I like the colors though, and I don’t think she’s too dark (like you mentioned). Great photo! :)
The Privacy section on iPhone is not about permissions though. Permissions for things like notifications/health/etc are separate and can be denied.
The privacy section is about “regardless of phone permissions, the company has to declare that they collect this data themselves in their own system”. Like ie, the threads app might collect its own data about your sleep schedule because they see you get on sometimes at 7am, and again at 11pm, so you probably sleep between those times roughly.
Most of my favorite smaller communities on Reddit (50-500k members) are gone permanently. A couple of them were basically forums run by a niche YouTuber with a couple of helper mods, to talk about topics related to their channel. Those people didn’t want to deal with trying to use Reddit anymore, so they just closed down. It’s basically impossible to bring a community like that back, when the person it exists around is gone.
I don’t see Reddit stepping in for all of those smaller communities, so they’re just gone entirely. And that was where most of the value was for me. So yeah, its completely worthless to me at this point to even use Reddit.
The feeling of hot or cold is actually just the feeling of heat energy entering/leaving your skin.
The basics: if something is cold, energy is moving from your hand into the cold thing. If something is hot, energy is moving into your hand from the hot thing.
If it cannot transfer energy at all, then it doesn’t feel hot or cold. Like when you take a shower at the perfect temperature where the water temp matches your skin exactly, and it doesn’t feel like anything. Or a very warm pool.
Your hand would overheat a little bit eventually because your body creates internal energy through being alive, which it radiates away through your skin to the surrounding air to maintain equilibrium. If your hand lost that ability, it would get a bit warmer internally. But your blood would maintain approximate temperature equilibrium, so it wouldn’t be too bad.
If you were in a pool of the stuff, you’d eventually cook yourself.
Source: got a physics degree a bunch of years ago and kinda remember some things. But I’m not 100% confident of any of this