Posted on 09/21/2015 8:11:19 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Yes. Google did not invent spidering, search engines or anything else like that. They did it more comprehensively and presented it better than anyone else. Instead of being greedy and stupid like almost all the rest, the presented a useful search interface (and still do) free of extraneous junk like ads. They had a long term vision and now place ads within the search results, sometimes to excess. But they know like everyone else that they will be replaced if they go too far.
Smart man, that Limbaugh. iOS users using iOS doesn't get by him, no sir.
As long as we are buying our bandwidth from the US wireless oligopoly - where every byte is priced like it was hand-mined by gnomes on the third moon of Uranus - I will use ad blockers and encourage others to do so.
If the ads are presented as paragraphs of text, I really don't have any problem with that.
Two very good free things to install in your browsers:
Ghostery defeats trackers
https://www.ghosty.com/en/
Abine provides invisibility, defeats trackers
https://www.abine.com/index.html
“Gates and Jobs robbed Xerox.”
Jobs paid them.
Ahh. I see. Thanks for the clarification.
Firefox with Ghostery and with Adblock Plus turned up to the max gives as smooth a browsing experience as you could want.
It chokes on my iPad Air too. Will probably replace it with.a Surface Pro 4 when they come out. Not really a fair comparison, because the surface is a more expensive option, but I like the idea of having a full computer. Then I will be able to run whatever ad blocker I want.
My suspicion is Apple won’t enable this ad blocker feature for older devices. We’ll have to wait and see.
Sigh. Yes, Schmidt stole iOS's user interface, although probably not the OS.
However, Steve Jobs did not rob Xerox of anything. Jobs paid Xerox for the two visits to Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) with a contract for the visits that included the right to buy 100,000 shares of pre-IPO Apple Common stock for discounted $10 per share, or $1 million. That agreement allowed Steve Jobs and up to sixteen Apple Engineers of his choice to visit PARC and observe what was being done there and use what they saw. They were not allowed to take notes, take photographs, or take away with them any software code. They were at PARC for a total of sixteen hours. They used what they observed in work they were ALREADY developing. AppleTalk bears very little relations ship to Xerox's SmallTalk. Much of the Apple user interface was developed by Apple such as drag and drop, movable overlapping windows, nested drop-down menus, live interactive icons on which one can drop a document and have it open the app, the trashcan metaphor, and the infinitely findable top menu.
After the Initial Public stock Offering in 1980, Xerox sold those shares for $16 million. Had they kept those shares until today, they would be worth $630,952,000. Xerox was well compensated.
Bill Gates never compensated Xerox anything for use of their ideas and did in fact lift most of the ideas for Windows from Apple's GUI, although much of Windows 1.0 looked more like Xerox's Star SmallTalk because of the tiled windows.
A Xerox Star office installation for even one workstation to be functional could cost upwards of $40,000. Four times the cost of the Apple Lisa, and sixteen times the cost of a working Apple Macintosh.
Rush is not compensated by Apple for talking about Apple. Sorry to burst your fantasy bubble.
Newer iPads are about 16 times faster than your five year old Gen 1 model. . . and 8 times faster than your wife's gen 2. They are all 64 bit now too, compared to both of your 32 bit models.
I'd suggest selling them for what you can get for them and upgrading. Google's YouTube deliberately discontinued support for devices older than about two years old last year. They even dropped support for my 3rd generation Apple TV and pulled their App. This was NOT Apple's choice, but a decision made by Google. I have heard you can still look at YouTubes on the web using HTML5, though, but I cannot testify to that of my own experience having taken my own advice and upgraded. My girlfriend's 2nd Gen iPad works fine just as your wife's does. . . but with Google's attitude, who knows how long that will continue.
I completely disagree. In some categories, the entire first page is paid placement. You may have to go to the third page to find popular local businesses over national ads. I have found Google to become less and less useful as they sell more and more advertising. I say this as a Google advertiser who is also finding them becoming less and less effective FOR the advertiser as they make their ads more granular and more expensive by that granularization. They claim it makes them more targeted, but that really means it costs more to get your message to greater numbers of callers.
If your device can run OS 9, it will run ad blockers.
If your device can run OS 9, it will run ad blockers.I have an iPad Air. Can that run iOS 9?
I can watch Youtube videos by going to m.youtube but I have to search for the video. Too involved for me.
If I see something I really want to watch I find it on my MBP and open it.
I think the biggest problem I have surfing w/ the Gen 1 is the video ads that automatically open and run when you go to a site.
That is a fairly new addition to the chaff.
Really really annoying.
I just installed Adblock Plus due to this thread and Firefox is runny much better. How does ghostery help?
YUP!
I used google for years but when I installed track-me-not they started to bother me with verifications. So I kicked them out and use bing which is about 90% as good. For crucial searches I go back to google
Bing maps works just fine/ Bing image search is good
What you say is true now, but that was not how Google became successful. The became a success by refraining from junking up their home page. They slowly started adding ads to the first results page but even now those are still identified and discrete. There is no question they had the right strategy, minimalism, to get successful. But my main point was that they invented or innovated nothing to do that. They simply did it better.
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