While 52% of Americans said they use an adblocker, which is up 18% from a 2022 analysis by Statista, that figure grew to 66% for experienced advertisers (those with five or more years of ad experience).

via Ghostery

Yuge numbers!

Wardriving, wonder what one would find today

Orisinal: Morning Sunshine was a website featuring 62 Adobe Flash games (as of January 2018). The website was created in 2000 by Ferry Halim who resides in Clovis, California. It won the World Summit Award in 2003 in the e-entertainment category and the Webby Award in the games category in 2003. In 2004, the site Jay Is Games commended Orisinal: Morning Sunshine for Outstanding Achievement in Artistic Expression in its Best of 2004 special awards. As of November 2010, Ferry Halim has begun selling a selection of his games on the Apple App Store in remade versions for the iPhone.

As of March 2024, the games are playable, as Ruffle has been set up on the website. Previously, they were inaccessible due to the discontinuation of Flash Player by Adobe.

Neat (Wiki)

Even with fully enabled hardmode, there wasn’t a single request from a 3rd party advertiser or data broker, not even Google.

Assume a company wants to maximize profits without losing privacy-minded users. I assume there is somewhat of an increase in cost, complexity, and latency if that company decides to collect data themselves and subsequently sell it to a data broker? Is there any actual privacy benefit? / Is there anything Google can only glean if their code is embedded into a site and they cannot simply collect after the fact? (Maybe routing time given their global presence or something kinda small…)

Was halfway to the mailbox when I realized these weren’t the official instructions

Great incentive, very clever move by Proton. All stuff that’s a good idea anyway but it’s just way too easy to “get around to all that later.” Then it’s 2034 already and Google still has you leashed tight.

…we’ve achieved economies of scale sooner than anticipated.

As a result…subscribers can now enjoy a reduced monthly price…

First time I’ve ever read such a thing. 👏

(And if the opposite is in fact true, well played anyway cuz ya got me 😉)

“We are still totally in Geneva though!”

“Fixed”!

Source / Nitter