It’s actually a bit more complicated.
AdSense indeed used to work through ratios of views and clicks, but Google (and all other ad networks) have been tinkering with it to benefit them even more.
Today, it’s about conversion, and conversion as a KPI is not well defined. Clicking into an as might simply not be enough to make it cost more.
This only works when the site, ad network and advertiser are three distinct and separate entities.
Given that pretty much all social media now runs its own advertising systems, it won’t actually have much effect. Sure it wastes some money, but given how precise site analytics are, most can actually discern between real clicks and these automated tools.
Not to mention that the whole website for this tool looks like is itself riddled with ads, and also, over 2/3 of all internet traffic happens on mobile devices, which this extension doesn’t support.
Hear hear!
That sounds way too generic for it to be a proper smut community. Got a link?
Technically I’m a dude, but I will accept an honourary smut girlie title
Thanks! Looks like it’s my client blocking my view from all of these communities, including via search. First one isn’t even clickable and second appears empty.
I’m currently using Interstellar. Got any recommendations for iOS that can handle Lemmy, mBin AND PieFed, while not over-filtering NSFW? Interstellar doesn’t seem to have any proper toggles aside from “covering up sensitive content”, which I’ve already had disabled.
EDIT: Looks like the second link’s domain is down, and up for sale?
Of course it isn’t. A large number of the population is easily misled by even mediocre AI generated content. Which generates clicks, traffick, and thus revenue (through ads).
Why would a company with the sole priority of generating revenue, care about things like being truthful or legitimate or real, when that doesn’t generate revenue?
Given peopledotcom refuses to make their website actually usable (the cookie and privacy policy notice isn’t dismissable for example), I refuse to give them any level of traffic.
And the AI bubble hasn’t even burst yet.
Have you tried buddying up?
I find that my ADHD gets less in the way when there’s someone “observing” me while I do the task, leading me to much less random trailing off. They don’t actually have to do anything but be present or maybe talk to you.
I do some of my best cleanings when my mum calls. Guaranteed hour long chat where I can be actually productive because even though it’s just a voice call, I feel judged enough to start doing something about it.
With the ATC cuts, this is the only plane many will be getting on this week.
Sounds like a challenging wank, no?
The media doesn’t care. People do, but the media hasn’t been for the benefit of the people for quite a while now.
The issue is the merging of two different kinds of silicone. Silicone in itself doesn’t like other silicones and the harder ones tend to “melt” the softer ones (in reality the polymer chains interact and cause migration, which deforms the softer object as it will have higher plasticity).
You could make a hard silicone dildo with soft silicone balls but most likely you’d end up with the ballsack tearing off in a play-doh consistency mess within a few weeks of manufacturing.
The main fracturing on the left is primarily caused by ideological purists (aka tankies), who refuse to even consider that going from current capitalist systems to communism doesn’t happen at the flip of a switch and we need to slowly but surely push for more and more progress towards it. Mind you the same people in the same breath will go on and praise authoritarian, state-capitalist systems as if they’re an example to follow, so…
Ideological debate should always be welcome when relevant and not detrimental to the goal. After all, everyone’s perspective is different and mutual understanding is a must for mutual respect. Even if we disagree on topics, debating them with logical reasoning is the way, and while that might look like fracturing, it’s still a much better option than, say, pooling behind a child rapist mango with pubes on top of it, just to appear united.
I never really had a good relationship with my parents. I’m a first child, so they were literally learning the ropes with me, and being neurodivergent without appropriate early diagnosis and treatment… there was some major disconnect. Sure I was a “gifted” kid, but at every step they tried to force their own vision onto me, and thanks to that disconnect, I never had that truly supporting parentage. It was a constant barrage of high expectations with major punishments outlined if I didn’t meet those, and given the disconnect, the only time I felt “loved” was when they’d provide me with certain things - but all those things were tied to expectations.
A great example for this is my first computer. I needed one, for studies, for chasing my own interests, and finally I was allowed to buy one from my own money at the end of 8th grade, if my graduation average was above a specific (incredibly high, think 16-18 subjects, graded 1 to 5 where 5 is best, my average had to be above 4.5), and if I managed to get certified in my chosen secondary language at a B level (A is conversational, B is professional/daily, C is for official translation work).
This plus my parents rarely expressing emotions beyond anger was… not exactly helpful in my emotional development.
Now, after a decade of living abroad, I’m trying to close that gap, but it’s not easy. My mother… I get along with her much better, but she’s got tons of trauma she refuses to see a therapist about, and instead is working herself to death in her 50s. The worst part is I can’t even talk her out of it, and both my brothers are blind to it.
My father is the harder nut to crack. He’s gone down the alt-right slide about ten years ago, and this intelligent man I grew up admiring has gone incredibly racist, xenophobic, illogical, in constant support of a kleptocratic government that literally took away all his savings and pension and is now giving him a pittance…
All in all it’s not easy but I’m doing my best to build a passable relationship with them.
Uhm… No.
It depends on you doing additive or subtractive colour mixing.
Additive mixing (e.g. light, in the form of colour LEDs or similar colour sources) must utilise RGB, due to how physics works.
Subtractive mixing (such as, printing, painting, etc.) on the other hand is better off with CMY+K for higher precision, again, for physics reasons.
They banned all AI regulations unless it affects MAGA detrimentally
While I do not disagree with that being part of the reason, I’m fairly sure that protecting the university employees from potentially being disappeared because they didn’t do what the Chinese secret police told them to do, was also a major part of it.
It’s because people have generally accepted that marketing is a thing, and will be a thing - and that as long as it isn’t directly harmful, it can actually be beneficial to the consumer.
Which, to be fair, makes some sense. On one hand you have people who want a service, on the other you have the service that wants to make money. But running that service costs more than people are willing to pay so you bring in a third party who gets to advertise to the people while giving money to the service for this, subsidising costs and making a cheap service possible. It’s a win-win-win situation, isn’t it?
Well it would be if it wasn’t for this damn end stage capitalist constant hypergrowth requirement. Everything has to make a constantly growing profit. If the profit GROWTH isn’t higher than last year, your business is crap. So now everyone is milking every last drop of money from every possible angle, leading to more ads, shittier services, and people moving on. Thanks to the greed of the few, the otherwise good thing, or acceptable status quo, is now crap.
Marketing isn’t at fault for this, it’s just a symptom.