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From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)
14 Mar 2013 10:32
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Also:
http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/13/adblock-plus-removed-google-play-store/
From: ANT_THOMAS
14 Mar 2013 10:51
To: Drew (X3N0PH0N)
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As it says, I'm surprised it's not been done sooner.
Anyone with any slight understanding of Google will know that they make their money from Ads. So it makes sense for them to prevent apps that prevent ad views. Annoying but understandable.
From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)
14 Mar 2013 10:55
To: ANT_THOMAS
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I'm sort of surprised and not surprised. I wouldn't have been surprised if ad-blocking stuff was banned from the start. But to remove it at this point just looks bad.
Wonder whether Chrome's ad-blockers will follow.
From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)
14 Mar 2013 11:19
To: Ken (SHIELDSIT)
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Might want to have a look at
this
plus
this
.
EDITED: 14 Mar 2013 11:20 by X3N0PH0N
From: milko
14 Mar 2013 11:22
To: Drew (X3N0PH0N)
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I read an analogy of having to go and check everyone you know's outboxes in case they have sent you an email. RSS is/was great!
From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)
14 Mar 2013 11:45
To: milko
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Yeah I am old fashioned. I actually like visiting all the sites.
From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)
14 Mar 2013 11:46
To: milko
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(also there are very very few websites that I check regularly, which is probably a big part of why I've never used owt like Reader)
From: milko
14 Mar 2013 12:39
To: Drew (X3N0PH0N)
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I do things with it also like having the last.fm gig listings for London feed on there, which is now really easy to skim through. And sites like I dunno Lifehacker which are at least 80% shite but have something interesting sometimes, it's nice and easy to zip through. I think I mainly use it as a skim reader actually.
From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)
14 Mar 2013 12:45
To: milko
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Makes sense. I tend to just use sites which aggregate the kinda stuff I'm interested in.
From: Ken (SHIELDSIT)
14 Mar 2013 13:31
To: sinkywinky
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I actually really like using G+. I'm like Drew, I have a tech circle and get a bunch of news that way. I could probably get most of it that way, and replace Reader with it, but there are a few sites that wouldn't work.