Non-IT News Thread

[black3dynamite]

@rojoloco said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Netflix testing ads.

In other news, RojoLoco is testing Pi Hole with a big middle finger pointed at advertisers and Netflix.

I wounder if the TV shows won't load if something is blocking it?

[scottalanmiller]

@rojoloco said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Netflix testing ads.

In other news, RojoLoco is testing Pi Hole with a big middle finger pointed at advertisers and Netflix.

My guess is that Netflix serves them in such a way that they are just another show.

[DustinB3403]

@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:

@rojoloco said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Netflix testing ads.

In other news, RojoLoco is testing Pi Hole with a big middle finger pointed at advertisers and Netflix.

I wounder if the TV shows won't load if something is blocking it?

I'm using Netflix right now with Pi Hole and haven't noticed any ads.

[scottalanmiller]

@dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:

@rojoloco said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Netflix testing ads.

In other news, RojoLoco is testing Pi Hole with a big middle finger pointed at advertisers and Netflix.

I wounder if the TV shows won't load if something is blocking it?

I'm using Netflix right now with Pi Hole and haven't noticed any ads.

That's not suggestive. Only a small number of people see them no matter what right now.

[NashBrydges]

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@rojoloco said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Netflix testing ads.

In other news, RojoLoco is testing Pi Hole with a big middle finger pointed at advertisers and Netflix.

My guess is that Netflix serves them in such a way that they are just another show.

They're not ads in the sense we think of with ad blockers. They're inserting a few seconds of previews for Netflix programming during the 15 second countdown between episodes when you binge a series.

[scottalanmiller]

@nashbrydges said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@rojoloco said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Netflix testing ads.

In other news, RojoLoco is testing Pi Hole with a big middle finger pointed at advertisers and Netflix.

My guess is that Netflix serves them in such a way that they are just another show.

They're not ads in the sense we think of with ad blockers. They're inserting a few seconds of previews for Netflix programming during the 15 second countdown between episodes when you binge a series.

Exactly, it's just part of the show. No way, I would think, that an ad blocker could detect them.

[DustinB3403]

Ah yeah, in that case I wouldn't have seen them anyways.

Just watched a single movie.

[scottalanmiller]

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-get-a-cat-to-like-you-1828501761

[momurda]

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-get-a-cat-to-like-you-1828501761

Good advice for people who don't know about cats.

[PenguinWrangler]

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@dustinb3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

In other news a NY Lawmaker wants to make it a crime to call the police on a person of color who isn't actually doing anything illegal and charge the caller with a hate crime.

Isn't harassment already a crime?

I believe that a lot of laws are passed to try to outlaw people being ASSHOLES. It won't work.

[momurda]

This Pocket news feature thing on Firefox is really quite good. It just shows a lot of content that i want to read.

[nadnerB]

Sooo, there goes another Prime Minister...

[Obsolesce]

@nadnerb said in Non-IT News Thread:

Sooo, there goes another Prime Minister...

LOLOLOLOL

[scottalanmiller]

US Senator John McCain dies aged 81 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45312217

[scottalanmiller]

Several killed in mass shooting in Jacksonville, Florida - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45315970

[JaredBusch]

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Several killed in mass shooting in Jacksonville, Florida - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45315970

Playing Madden Footbal? WTF.

[dbeato]

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Several killed in mass shooting in Jacksonville, Florida - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45315970

Sad situation

[coliver]

@jaredbusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Several killed in mass shooting in Jacksonville, Florida - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45315970

Playing Madden Footbal? WTF.

Apparently one of the players lost and started shooting. It's pretty brutal.

[tirendir]

I kind of want to comment about McCain... but it would be rather harsh, and I don't know that peeps want to see/hear it. >.>

[JaredBusch]

@tirendir said in Non-IT News Thread:

I kind of want to comment about McCain... but it would be rather harsh, and I don't know that peeps want to see/hear it. >.>

Politics are pretty much banned.

Linking a news article is one thing.