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During the design process for USB, a concept for a Universal Parallel Bus was tried, but was quickly abandoned.

@ryo If you only care about the number of views from that ad, and the ad is a static image you can see how many unique clients accessed that image in the server logs.

@ryo Linux Mint does it, but it's for laptops that already have their OS pre-installed, so it might as well be their own product, even though they're from ThinkPenguin.

There was also a website I visited a lot back in high school which I used for cliffnotes on reading assignments. They had a sponsorship deal with the Nook (an e-reader device similar to the Amazon Kindle). It was just a simple plain text ad.

And a lot of imageboards have their own self-hosted ads that aren't targeted, but that's because most ad companies don't want to deal with those types of sites.

>Consider the sheer amount of CCTV cameras that exist just about everywhere nowadays.

Not that many have facial recognition. A lot of them still don't even have audio. I know there are advanced CCTV cameras out there now, but you'd be surprise how many of them are old-school.

@beardalaxy @ryan Not all leftists want gun control. Ancoms are actually pro-gun.

@beardalaxy @ryan They need to keep us distracted while they construct the New World Order. The whole gun control vs trannies debate is the perfect diversion.

@ryo Problem is, I don't know a single ad service that serves untargeted, JS-free ads like the ones you would see back in the 90s and early 2000s.

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Dear websoyte owners who are running ads, if you really want to make people stop using adblockers, then fucking limit your ads!
If you have people who find a blog post of yours, and then get drown by hundreds of ads floating around the screen, you're only inviting people to install an adblocker.
Setting up even more ads will not make you earn more money, the exact opposite effect will happen.

Because most of your visitors don't block ads because they don't want you to earn a little bit of money (commies do, but they're the types of people who will say "money evil" while hoarding as much money as possible for themselves), many don't want to be spied on, but that's only a tiny percentage of adblocker users.
The reason why vast majority of the people who use adblockers is exactly because there are way too many ads, and they're just annoyed by the ad spam, their flashiness, how they slow down computers, and so on.

@ryan Okay, she was already shot before the cop from the first clip I watched came in.

recent nashville shooting 

@Hyolobrika@berserker.town According to an alleged text sent to a formal classmate of hers, she planned to die during the event.

recent nashville shooting 

Okay, after seeing the shooter get shot. I noticed that she was already on the ground before the cops fired at her. Doesn't that seem suspicious? I'm thinking that this is yet again, a staged event.

invidious.poast.org/watch?v=Ue

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> Also the lack of a "catch all" in defining who it target leads me to believe that they already have bills in place to target domestic targets.

They just call Google. Google works with the feds. All of them do. Here is an account: https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/ . It's not just Google; you don't get to the size Google got to without having feds up your ass.
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the hate for those supposed to be ancaps really is strange to me, though; you'd think there'd be more your-heritage-is-rebellion.png types but it really seems like all real "atomic individualism" has left the politically-conservative scene, disregarded as "a pipe dream" because "the US military has drones." It's a really common misconception. If there's one thing the left and the right agree about, it's that the US Military being turned on any subset of the US citizenry would be an absolute massacre, impossibly one-sided with the technology of the US military vs some AR-15s and AK-47s. You hear jokes about it, with Republicans as the butt of the joke for democrat comedians, and ancaps the butt of the joke for Republican shitposters.

But... you really must not be paying any attention to the Bundy Ranch, or understand what it means when Ruby Ridge and Waco put the feds in a position where they had to show their ruthlessness, their willingness to win over all moral, ethical or interest-based reasoning. They can be held off, and they will make a fool of themselves if held off long enough. It could be very costly, but with enough wilderness and motte-space to keep them at the extreme distance, with effective low-power monitoring systems with back-up communications modes, autonomous devices that don't have to receive instruction, the fact any raspi-alike has more than enough power to do 30fps video analysis and associated targeting for homemade (nerf) turrets.

Optimistic? Probably, but that's way better than selling out to a party that will never follow through on promises for its citizens, or a party deliberately angling for greater powers, or shribertarians trying to only play the classic game of politics and never accomplishing shit.
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