SnotJockey's comments

SnotJockey | 4 years ago | on: Why is there a TikTok tracking pixel on UberEats what is this crap?

Ads aren't just annoying, they're often malicious and downright dangerous. Linking to apps with 0 click subscriptions, illegal porn or with recurring card payments and banking trojans. God forbid you're in the crypto space, every fucking ad is a scam or malicious, people lose their whole life savings to scams pushed through Google ads every day and there is no easy way to stop them. I run an ad blocker because Google is useless at stopping illegal scams and has been for a very long time. Google should have a policy to ban any crypto services name from adwords unless the ad is from verified from the service the word is about. It's not rocket science, but it'd hit the bottom line so until then eat adblock.

I've been a victim of google's vastly inadequate ad vetting on at least three occasions and I'm pretty savvy.

SnotJockey | 5 years ago | on: The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free

I'm all for conspiracies when they don't cause harm, you think the earth is flat and chemtrails control your mind good for you buddy, now I know not to trust your judgement. But once you've go nevermaskers and antivaxers running around infecting and killing people, or pizzagaters shooting up restaurants the hands off approach becomes a public health issue. Conspiracy theorists have gone from benign to damn dangerous to have around.

SnotJockey | 5 years ago | on: The Truth Is Paywalled but the Lies Are Free

Yeah, That pissed me off too, It stank of petrochemical company bribery or willful ignorance.

That said they still produce some quality journalism and I wouldn't write off an entire news organization for one shitty decision (to back a bad review).

Just like I don't judge all of Tesla for the fact they don't separate their freeway and street driving data so we can properly analyze their self driving crash statistics misleading potential customers.

SnotJockey | 8 years ago | on: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Blockchain, Tokens, ICOs: Why Should Anyone Care?

A lot of the issues you raise with popcorntime come down to not enough users and not enough seeders, and those problems are caused largely because people are scared of the legal repercussions. So it's an artificial limitations to the service's success not technical ones.

SnotJockey | 9 years ago | on: Clef two-factor authentication service shutting down

Damn, I liked clef. Used it on a few sites and it was pretty seamless.

SnotJockey | 11 years ago | on: Trends in the Silk Road 2.0

Australia, punching well above it's weight here. One 15th of America's population, 1/2 it's sellers and listings.

SnotJockey | 11 years ago | on: Trends in the Silk Road 2.0

Drugs are social, most people who buy from SR will have at least one friend who know where they got them and would go out of their way to warn others.

MDMA almost never kills people, it's far safer than alcohol or most other drugs. The chance of serious selection bias is unlikely.

More likely there is bias because sellers can edit listings without losing the existing rating.

SnotJockey | 11 years ago | on: Tor exit node operator prosecuted in Austria

But the customer info turned over is not necessarily the guilty party either. If you have free wifi in your cafe now you're responsible for anything illegal your clients do?

It's a bad judgement on all counts.