"Welcome to hell: Apple vs Google vs Facebook and the slow death of the web"
*Welcome to hell: Apple vs Google vs Facebook and the slow death of the web** * By Nilay Patel on September 17, 2015 08:32 am So let's talk about ad blocking. You might think the conversation about ad blocking is about the user experience of news, but what we're really talking about is money and power in Silicon Valley. And titanic battles between large companies with lots of money and power tend to have a lot of collateral damage. iOS 9 came out yesterday (in fits and starts) and with it, support for content blockers in iOS 9. There is already a little cottage industry of ad blockers available, and you should definitely try one or two — they will radically improve your mobile web experience, because they will... block huge chunks of the web from loading. Those huge chunks — the ads! — are almost certainly the part you don't want. What you want is the content, hot sticky content, snaking its way around your body and mainlining itself directly into your brain. Plug that RSS firehose straight into your optic nerve and surf surf surf 'til you die. […] Continua qui: http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/17/9338963/welcome-to-hell-apple-vs-google-vs...
È una battaglia tra billing e ad che consolida i big 3 Il 17 settembre 2015 17:53:03 "J.C. DE MARTIN" <demartin@polito.it> ha scritto:
*Welcome to hell: Apple vs Google vs Facebook and the slow death of the web** * By Nilay Patel on September 17, 2015 08:32 am
So let's talk about ad blocking.
You might think the conversation about ad blocking is about the user experience of news, but what we're really talking about is money and power in Silicon Valley. And titanic battles between large companies with lots of money and power tend to have a lot of collateral damage.
iOS 9 came out yesterday (in fits and starts) and with it, support for content blockers in iOS 9. There is already a little cottage industry of ad blockers available, and you should definitely try one or two — they will radically improve your mobile web experience, because they will... block huge chunks of the web from loading.
Those huge chunks — the ads! — are almost certainly the part you don't want. What you want is the content, hot sticky content, snaking its way around your body and mainlining itself directly into your brain. Plug that RSS firehose straight into your optic nerve and surf surf surf 'til you die.
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