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So recently i have been getting ads for the LTT water bottle on my homepage. Anytime i go to Youtube the first spot has been a LTT ad for the last week. I dont think this is the biggest deal, but i do think its not great. Since the big drama and what not i just wanted to take a break from the content, If anything i was on LTT side the entire time. But l feel like i cant get away from LTT if that makes any sense. I think LTT is over saturating itself to the point i dont wanna see anything to do with them .I know this is nothing, and im prolly out of pocket. But i would not have made a account and made this post if I didnt give a fuck. Im just a dummy, so take what i say with a grain of salt.
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Obligatory: first time on the forum, might be a wrong category! I just watched latest WAN Show, and L&L had a discussion regarding ethical advertising while maintaining proper disclosures, laws and regulations. While I was listening to the discussion, I remembered RTB House, which is an advertising company, which tries to be super transparent and is paid only, if viewer bought the item, even thought they have to pay for every advertising slot themselves. That way they have incentive to have accurate targeting of potential buyers. Have anybody looked into this or other ethic driven advertising companies?
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So I have already purchased said case, not exactly looking at the advertising and such because the case just seemed smart. I have already built my computer inside but I needed to find out what the controller was called on the back that I could connect my fans too so I can quickly figure out how to control them better, Besides that I found my self on corsairs website where they are displaying the case in all its glory. Now I myself understand the concept of marketing but I will put the picture they provide below (hopefully it will show). I know many of us will catch on to what the issue is here and how I could say this is sort of false advertising or maybe I am just bad at computer building, but could anyone here build a computer with the components in place like they are here in the picture? In no way shape or form does my case look anything like this picture. Just sort of looking for some thoughts as to how people would perceive this. *As a note in which most of us probably don't need to be told but there is a large case of Schrodinger's power cables going on here, not to mention how would the cables fit with the hard drive cage right up besides the power supply. **Side Note, I did move the cage so I could fit my power cables and thus why it looks nothing like the cables and my door was on the verge of not closing.
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Before Google Chrome in 2009, we had Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera (and opera mobile) and Firefox. Then Chrome came along and people gobbled it up because it's the first thing they see when they go to that homepage. Everybody thought oh Google I know them they make the Internet or something. This should be the best ever--and it's free! Mozilla Firefox usage took a nose-dive because there wasn't equal amounts of advertising (especially on television with chromecast and then chromeboooks with that familiar chrome logo). This was and is NOT because Chrome is better, in fact many people say it eats rams for breakfast lunch dinner and a dessert with many tabs open. Firefox is open-source and Mozilla, the company producing the browser just laid off 150--that's actually 250 https://www.protocol.com/mozilla-layoffs developers and you can read the rest. On iOS devices, (which are quality software, no disrespect) the Firefox browser can not use its opensource Gecko rendering engine. It's forced to render with Apple's WebKit engine which (probably has zero firefox users on apple) *could* reduce mobile firefox use numbers. Chrome is default on android and every browser except firefox will use WebView (not to be confused with Apple's webkit) or chrome which uses Blink. Microsoft Edge also uses Blink because it's using Chromium as the code behind it instead of EdgeHTML. Why does any of this matter? Do you want to see the internet dominated by a piece of software from a company whose profit comes from mining your data to target you with relevant ads? Google doesn't care about your privacy online--they make money from the very opposite of that! To learn more, here's an EFF (Electronic Frontier) article that goes VERY deep into this rabbit hole: https://www.eff.org/wp/school-issued-devices-and-student-privacy I hope you all choose to support a clean privacy-minded web rather than one dominated by Google.
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This piss anyone else off See the SSD on this site, looks pretty sick with that nice black heat spreader and would look awesome in my system.. go check it out on the site and its completely different. Now I'm not asking for anything or want them been held to it, couldn't care that much, but does anyone else find this Damn annoying. Also post any if you know of them or got a product that wasn't like advertised
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Hey guys. I've been watching linus videos for a while now and i like the products he advertises in his videos. Of course i haven't been making notes of them and now I've forgotten some of the products that I wanted to research and can't remember which videos they were in. Is there a list of the products he advertises? Thanks
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So I just had the random « shower thought » after playing Jetpack Joyride on my iPhone. This mobile game is annoying to play as it is full of ads, these ads are required to unlock free prizes and coins. So what if the game developers somewhat used the Face ID feature of the iPhone to ensure that the user is actually watching the ad, instead of flipping down the phone and doing something else until the ad finishes? Wouldn’t that be gruelling?
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Amazon is changing how their ad platform works to compete better with Google and App Nexus according to Tech Crunch. Not sure what this means for those who rely on Amazon as a revenue through their affiliate program. https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/27/amazon-is-retiring-cpm-ads-a-display-ad-network-for-amazon-associates-by-the-end-of-september/
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For a story on my school's journalism website I wanted to investigate just how toxic and malicious clickbait articles on popular sites actually are. A couple people here showed interest so I thought I would post the results here as well. I went to 10 sites: Anandtech.com, Techcrunch.com, Arstechnica.com, Endgadget.com, Denverpost.com (local here), CNN.com, Foxnews.com, NBCnews.com, ABCnews.com, and Theguardian.com. All of these display "sponsored links" or "from around the web" sections full of clickbait. I clicked on the first story I saw on each site, and then the first 5 clickbait "articles" there for a total or 50. Out of those 50: 21 contained more links to clickbait articles, 18 had misleading headlines that did not accurately describe the topic of the article, 9 were over two year old pages though they were labeled “new” or “trending”, 2 attempted to infect the computer with malware, 11 exhibited none of these offenses and were actually legitimate, harmless articles, and one never loaded and appeared to be a broken link. Obviously it was mostly what I expected, except for the two times a site attempted to download malware. The first, surprisingly and a little sadly, was from Anandtech. The headline read “This one weird trick is the number one reason computers run slow”. It was actually a download page for a most untrustworthy looking “computer cleanup” program. To verify its illegitimacy I went ahead and downloaded and ran it (I was using a PC I don't care about that was blocked off from the rest of the network, just in case). The program certainly did not help clean up the system as it claimed, and slowed it down so much that I couldn’t even navigate to the control panel to uninstall it and was forced to completely wipe the hard drive and reinstall Windows. Given this PC has a Core 2 Duo E4400 and 4GB memory. The other was from CNN. The headline read “Shocking photos released by ex-White House employees”. It turned out just to be some regular old candid photos of President Obama and his family. After viewing this page for about fifteen seconds, I was redirected to a page asking me to download a program so that I may take a survey about my Comcast internet service. It was quite obviously not actually from Comcast. The program it installed took up about 10% of the computer’s resources, but didn’t do anything else noticeable. Therefore I assume that the point of this virus was to remain unnoticed by the typical user, and most likely connected the computer to a botnet. I also formatted after this one just to be safe. So...yeah. Take all that as you will. -
Hi all, I'm Al from Italy. I watch the youtube channel frequently as I consider myself well interested in tech. I like that the advertising that you guys make on the channel help you financially, but I would point out that some reviews about the products you advertise would be heavily needed. My example is TunnelBear. I travel a lot and I use it for connecting back to Italy form whichever country I'm in, I even subscribed to it with your links, but it has so many flaws that you could have easily spotted out and help me made a better investment. For reference, on windows, it keeps screwing with the firewall setup. What you guys think about advertising products you actually suggest? PS: If you actually think Tunnelbear is a great product, how do you solve the firewall issue? -
Hello, Background In the most recent WAN show Linus and Luke discussed product placement and the discussion seemed to have a generally negative tone. A reference was made to Transformers and how ridiculous product placement was in that or those movies. I decided to google cause I didn't really understand what the problem was since I didn't consider product placement to be a problem in Transformers (any of them). Argument That reference to Transformers brought back on old subject: if a car has to be shown in a scene because it's part of the story or the scenery (e.g. town or city in US since 1950s), is it all the same or better to use an existing and well known brand? If the story is placed on planet earth and a given period of time, isn't it part of the experience that when a car is shown it's a brand that you'd expect to see anyway in that region and time? Is it a problem only when any given shot is changed specifically to show a brand? I just watched half a youtube video bitching about all of the product placement in Transformers - Age of Extinction. Out of the first two dozen product placements, guess how many I even spotted? Only a few and some of those made sense. Lockdown is a Lamborghini and Bumblebee is a Camaro; they're cool cars. It never even occurred to me to consider product placement because I was too busy enjoying the movie and that, in my mind, is the point. Once I saw that a Nokia phone in a movie (possibly X-Files) and in particular the brand was shown for a full second or two; that was a bit irritating and there I understand why some people are ticked off about product placement because it interrupted the experience. Am I completely off the mark? Are you guys much more sensitive about this? Sensitive in the sense that you constantly see product placement and it interrupts your experience? Is there something else that causes product placement to be a problem?
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I can't wait to see how Linus et al, start to advertise the idea of putting boogies in your hair to help hair management! That not only putting boogies in your hair helps, but that putting other peoples peoples boogies in your hair is even better So what's next the new Spunk skin care range? Rubbing other peoples spunk into your face - keeps men looking young?
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Recently, this company came to my university to pitch their popularity to students. Philo offers a service where you can stream cable content to your devices, and it sounds glorious to me, because for college students, it will be free! What does the LTT community think? I think they can gain some serious popularity among college students and eventually expand to residential areas as well . I am aware I can make my own media server that downloads cable content, but for the average TV consumer, this might be the perfect alternative to their DVR. Here's the link to Forbes' article on it (kind of old but whatever) http://www.forbes.com/sites/maxrobins/2013/11/18/if-facebook-and-hulu-had-a-baby-it-would-look-like-philo/
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would advertising the bible in a website form will be a breach of CoC ?
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advertising my own topic is against CoC ?
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During the last week, a bunch of new laptops from HP have appeared at various Future Shop and BestBuy stores, and they all have a mysterious "HP Hexa-core" branding. They're sold at a rather high price, with ads praising the power and efficacity of the famous hexa-core. No Intel, AMD, or anything else, just HP Hexa-core. With a bit of research, I have managed to discover that this chip (as HP does not manufacture processors) is in fact an AMD A8-6410 Beema processor with 6 Compute Cores (which means 4 actual CPU cores (2 CPU modules) and 2 "GPU cores"). What do you think of this marketing scheme? Is it okay for manufacturers to outright lie to consumers even more than they usually do? And why don't they have to brand it as AMD-powered (as that's possibly a first in computer retailing) ? Source: http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/category/laptops-macbooks/1002.aspx?path=5c717aece317fcdd73af5375d79bbd56en01〈=fr-CA&pcname=&category=1002 (Go down to the "HP hexa-core" section) Benchmarks for the A8-6410: http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-A-Series-A8-6410-Notebook-Processor.122644.0.html
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So, I was made aware of this on twitter, and I found it interesting. Warning though, it may be a bit dry for some. You know, talking about the economics and future of online advertising, but I thought, what the hey, I'm sure someone here will find it interesting as well! Link: http://peakads.org/ Go to the pdf it links to, and enjoy!
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A japanese company is going to place a capsule on the moon, containing powder to make its drinks. Could this be the start of a new level of interplanetary advertising, or a sumbol of man's comquest to conquer the universe going right back to what we have plenty of on Earth: Advertising. They hope to make this a symbol of the precious water we have. I guess this just goes to show that man never really changes. From the Earth to the stars, money is always our true desire. Source: http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/15/5719758/can-of-pocari-sweat-going-to-moon-in-2015
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I am trying to get my website http://kronofiles.com recognized but am having issues on where to market it and where I could get the most traffic from. Does anyone have any suggestions on ways to get my site noticed?
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This is a prime example of bad advertising: http://forum.corsair.com/v3/showthread.php?p=710824 The headers on these latest motherboards are not PWM despite having four pins. They actually use voltage (as I am sure most of you are already aware) to control RPM instead. Most fans have a lower bound voltage tolerance on spin up of somewhere between 30%~40% With default settings they certainly won't start up from a cold boot as the temps would not be high enough to warrant a 30%~40% ramp up. Only after some time operating would temps get high enough to signal an increase thus starting the fans. This is a configuration issue at the end of the day. Rectified by setting the base tolerance to just enough to kick the fan off in both BIOS & any software that supersedes at the OS level. I don't think there's nearly enough documentation on modern fan control methodology to be honest. Certainly the advertising glosses over the fact that MB headers are actually voltage regulated. There's only two true PWM signal headers on the boards; the main CPU fan header and the CPU OPT header. Indeed one could well plug in a splitter and daisy chain the PWM signal around their case. However doing so only gives you PWM in the context of the CPU and NOT the individual temperature sensors located around the board. So in that respect it ends up being totally pointless and even detrimental for case fans; imagine the scenario where the GPU or the chip set gets hot ahead of the CPU. Basically your context is not globally considerate. Yes fan speed control is argued to not matter with case fans. I disagree, we have a feature-set there, why not take advantage of it. Personally I can't be bothered to use a control unit as I'd prefer for the software to do what it's been designed for therefore saving me flicking switches and groping knobs all the time.
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I don't know maybe most of you guys have already seen this but I thought it was cool and here's the article of the back changing colors right on the page http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57616176-93/new-moto-x-ad-lets-you-change-the-color-on-a-printed-page/?Media
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We live in an age where most websites are free to use. The price we pay for this "openness" is that we have website adds. I see nothing wrong with Ads, as long as they don't track me and as long as they are not invasive. Yet, I am an AdBlock users, its pretty much the first thing I install after the browser and drivers. I just came back from HopeX where they gave a number of excellent presentations on similar subjects. We can all agree that ads are not going anywhere, they are too deeply embedded in the way in which the internet works nowadays. The one thing that DEEPLY OFFENDS ME LINUS is that you would even consider words like "scummy". And while you did apologize for it, and apology granted BTW, there are things that you are not considering. The main problem with ads, other than being simply annoying sometimes, is the fact that they are profoundly creepy. Most ads out there use cookies and other tracking methods to track you across the web. They gather RIDICULOUS amounts of data about you and your browsing habits. And for everyone out there saying they don't care, you are creeped out by the NSA but not this?! The only solution until recently was to use Adblock, it simply did not run the java-script code of these ads and therefore their trackers. Great, right? Well as it turns out, yes and no. Firstly: You're not supporting the producer of the article. While I'm not necessarily saying that you should "support" every media outlet out there, what I am saying is that you are getting a free service in exchange of having these ads present. Now before you say anything, there is another side to this, the fact that IT SHOULD BE THE JOB OF THE WEBMIN to use non intrusive ad platforms and to actually help the consumer help you. Nevertheless. Secondly: While Adblock will actually take care of blocking a good chunk of these tracking cookies and other semi-malicious bits of code, it will only block VISIBLE CODE, in other words, any kind of tracker that is not visible in the actual website is not going to be blocked. There is a way to change this, but it only helps a little bit and it involves manual configuring and manually adding blacklisted items to Adblock. Ok, so you've read this rant, what's the solution? Well, as it turns out there is this really cool new tool, in Alpha stage right now (More of a 90% working Beta really, I've talked to the creator) and which is semi-sponsored by the EFF which will actually learn about how cookies behave and eventually block them as well as most other web tracking services. https://www.eff.org/privacybadger There was a long discussion about the algorithms used and the features but the gist of it is this: 1. Its Open Source, its all on GitHub. 2. It stops you from being spied on better than AdBlock 3. It does not make you a bad person by not supporting others. I hope Linus reads this and I can't wait to see what you guys think.
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Is this some sort of new YouTube advertising scheme? Each time I visit "YouTube.com" I hear audio for a Trump or Biden ad. Happens every time that I reload. Is anyone else experiencing this? * Does this qualify for Tech News?* -
The Co-Founder of Mozilla, Brendan Eich, has announced a new browser based on blocking advertising content and ad tracking. Named, Brave. What sounds really interesting, is that it still has advertisements, but instead of targeted ads based on ad tracking, the ads will be anonymous. That actually sounds kind of crazy. Some of the advertising revenue, will be shared with the users. I'm not even sure how such a thing would be possible.
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If this is inappropriate please move it elsewhere or delete this - I know I am talking about the behind the scenes stuff that isn't usually discussed with your customer base, Camera and production can be exciting/interesting because its still hardware geeking; Market penetration powerpoints - not so much! Unless of course your startup geek like me, where watching LTT and PCper are interleaved with Bloomberg and TechCrunch What I don't understand is why Channel supper fund oops sorry Super Fun isn't a huge cash cow for LMG? Tech TV by its very nature is targeting hardware geeks, but CSF should have broad market appeal? Especially as it should appeal to teenage men who would aspire to be like their older bros. i.e. the LMG group of blokes. Or to 20 something men where the LNG group hopefully reflects the antics 20 something men are likely to get up to. I assume youtube give you statistics about age, culture, gender information, or is that data not broken out? Its just that if my understanding is correct CSF should appeal to a broad range of advertisers targeting those age groups from movie companies, through alcohol companies through to people like Red Bull. Also since Youtube is net based is there a prohibition on tobacco marketing or is that too beyond the pail? Please understand Nick I am not questioning your skills, I am sure you have worked long and hard to generate sales. I am just interested as because i have faced similar issues before with other business. When I was looking at this years ago we didn't have the direct access that is possible now and equally we didn't have the reach that larger companies sought. But that's not an issue for you, you have the right eyeballs in depth? Is it just conservative advertisers or a surfeit of options? The later would seen odd as LMG seems definitely in unicorn territory as far as youtube success goes as i said if this inappropriate please delete and i'll try to take this to other forums such as email
