I visited that website, just to test my shields, and the site displays in all its lame glory, no warnings, no threats of impending doom for blocking ads... o.O
Ffox 42.0 + uBlock Origin 1.37 beta 4 + No JavaScript allowed whatsoever(courtesy of NoScript)
Ohh the blessing of having a full featured HTML firewall instead of just an ad blocker...
Also, ww125.smartadserver.com and track.adform.net are just a few of the 3rd party domains you connect to when visiting that toxic website.
Just a couple of clicks in Privacy Badger and uBlockO and boilá: entire domains banned forever.
And that website still works like a charm, not that I give two fucks anyway
It's been so sad indeed seeing the decline of such an amazing tech & science news website. I've registered there a long time ago.
I could never express in words how much I've learned over the years not only with amazing articles, but ESPECIALLY through invaluable input from thousands and thousands of regular users with hardcore knowledge of the subject matter at issue in each of them.
And when the vast majority of readers point out their factual errors, fallacies, and flagrant bias, they just "moderate" those comments (read censorship) and flat out block them.
They just seem to not give a fuck about the Ars community any more. That may be the only website I will really regret not going back ever again, if and when they pull the plug on the comment section... I'm really fed up as it is with what the site as a whole as come to.
But the amount of knowledge and "agnostic" resources one gets just by reading the comments and compiling hundreds of links that the community selflessly contribute day in and day out, on every single article... that website has amassed a treasure trove of intellectual capital, I really wish they would value it so much more...
But this seems to be the sad state of affairs... just push a fundamentalist ideology and bury the head on the sand... lalalalallala we don't hear!! lalallalalaa
For what it's worth, this is their last sorry attempt at pushing the same already a-million-times-over debunked narrative...
PLEASE Read the comment section there, 99% of readers are politely telling them that they are not buying the shit they are trying to sell, with well reasoned counter-arguments and facts... and all we get in return is a half-ass response from "some editor", yet the article's title and the subtitle remain untouched!
Adding insult to injury, this last article (as well as many previous ones) are concocted and featured under the SCIENTIFIC METHOD/SCIENCE & EXPLORATION section!!
They are a disgrace to the scientific method and to science in general with this flagrant ideology pushing and lame practices, a hundred face-palms do not cut it...
Anyway, maybe you guys can do something, I've seen many times that you cross-reference some of their articles and vice-versa, maybe you can talk to some higher-ups @ Ars before it's to late, they do not seem to care that they relabeled themselves "The Titanic-a" and with every piece of made-up hateful propaganda, with every comment they censor and block, with any piece of feedback they get telling them they are on the wrong path and they ignore, they keep rearranging chairs...
In closing, taking the world wide web as a whole, that community and the one that comments here at TechDirt, are the only ones I would really miss if they ever go under.
Sorry about a really long rant, but it's really sad for me to have been a front row witness to the decline in journalism standards of some of the most prestigious websites out there, Ars, the Guardian, Motherboard/Vice, those you mentioned and others.
Keep up the good work here, I salute you from Argentina.-
In hindsight this is just the natural course of events:
I mean... dedicating an entire section (read temper tantrum) to what they -and only they- called 'The Reddit Meltdown' O.O
Feminazi after feminazi propaganda and disinformation campaigns...
And now the final touch: stick the head in the sand "lalalala can't hear nofin!!" hahahahaha this is too adorable!!
So long Daily dot, as a long time visitor to your site (circa 2012 onwards), it is with not little sadness I say 'Fare well' I'll always remember when you used to be an interesting/fun forum to hang around with.
Not any more I'm afraid.
*goes to DailyDot bookmark's favicon* > Right click > delete
Every minute of this presentation ask yourself why encryption is so important to them... (Please disregard the title of the video. Focus on the bigger picture)
They've long realized that's the ONLY thing that can defeat surveillance and by proxy the only real threat to the Status Quo.
F..k my face this article was well written. Congrats to the author. Please have this piece as the standard for future posts. (Not saying that previous ones were bad though...)
NSA director Mike Rogers testified in front of a Senate committee this week, lamenting that the poor ol’ NSA just doesn’t have the “cyber-offensive” capabilities (read: the ability to hack people) it needs to adequately defend the US. How cyber-attacking countries will help cyber-defense is anybody’s guess, but the idea that the NSA is somehow hamstrung is absurd.
Die Welt Die!
I visited that website, just to test my shields, and the site displays in all its lame glory, no warnings, no threats of impending doom for blocking ads... o.O
Ffox 42.0 + uBlock Origin 1.37 beta 4 + No JavaScript allowed whatsoever(courtesy of NoScript)
Ohh the blessing of having a full featured HTML firewall instead of just an ad blocker...
Also, ww125.smartadserver.com and track.adform.net are just a few of the 3rd party domains you connect to when visiting that toxic website.
Just a couple of clicks in Privacy Badger and uBlockO and boilá: entire domains banned forever.
And that website still works like a charm, not that I give two fucks anyway
Well that was conveniently fast...
This is the Appeals Court clear attempt to have a pissing contest with Judge Leon.
Before, it took them two whole years to reach a decision, and now it took them two days...
Please someone remind me again what was all those pesky entries in the Bill of Rights about some amendments or something?
Meanwhile in Dangerous Ideologues Head Quarters...
How can we cover Free Speech and Real Democracy with a nice thick layer of tar?
*Quick! everyone grab a wide brush!*
aaaaand Go!
smh...
If these sad creatures are "experts" I'm Elvis incarnate.
Wait... they are experts in one field actually: victim-hood
Hi everyone!
I'll just leave this here...
and this one especially.
Enjoy!
Mark my words: ArsTechnica is next, give it a few months...
It's been so sad indeed seeing the decline of such an amazing tech & science news website. I've registered there a long time ago.
I could never express in words how much I've learned over the years not only with amazing articles, but ESPECIALLY through invaluable input from thousands and thousands of regular users with hardcore knowledge of the subject matter at issue in each of them.
But quite some time ago they started trying really hard to push this toxic ideology of a pseudo-feminist agenda, (watch especially from minute 49:55 on-wards for a primer and in it's entirety for a complete and condensed fact-filled crash course on journalistic/moral and ethical corruption) and with disinformation tactics, and they have been relentless in this push...
And when the vast majority of readers point out their factual errors, fallacies, and flagrant bias, they just "moderate" those comments (read censorship) and flat out block them.
They just seem to not give a fuck about the Ars community any more. That may be the only website I will really regret not going back ever again, if and when they pull the plug on the comment section... I'm really fed up as it is with what the site as a whole as come to.
But the amount of knowledge and "agnostic" resources one gets just by reading the comments and compiling hundreds of links that the community selflessly contribute day in and day out, on every single article... that website has amassed a treasure trove of intellectual capital, I really wish they would value it so much more...
But this seems to be the sad state of affairs... just push a fundamentalist ideology and bury the head on the sand... lalalalallala we don't hear!! lalallalalaa
For what it's worth, this is their last sorry attempt at pushing the same already a-million-times-over debunked narrative...
PLEASE Read the comment section there, 99% of readers are politely telling them that they are not buying the shit they are trying to sell, with well reasoned counter-arguments and facts... and all we get in return is a half-ass response from "some editor", yet the article's title and the subtitle remain untouched!
Adding insult to injury, this last article (as well as many previous ones) are concocted and featured under the SCIENTIFIC METHOD/SCIENCE & EXPLORATION section!!
They are a disgrace to the scientific method and to science in general with this flagrant ideology pushing and lame practices, a hundred face-palms do not cut it...
Anyway, maybe you guys can do something, I've seen many times that you cross-reference some of their articles and vice-versa, maybe you can talk to some higher-ups @ Ars before it's to late, they do not seem to care that they relabeled themselves "The Titanic-a" and with every piece of made-up hateful propaganda, with every comment they censor and block, with any piece of feedback they get telling them they are on the wrong path and they ignore, they keep rearranging chairs...
In closing, taking the world wide web as a whole, that community and the one that comments here at TechDirt, are the only ones I would really miss if they ever go under.
Sorry about a really long rant, but it's really sad for me to have been a front row witness to the decline in journalism standards of some of the most prestigious websites out there, Ars, the Guardian, Motherboard/Vice, those you mentioned and others.
Keep up the good work here, I salute you from Argentina.-
So they pulled a Sarkeesian on us... hahaha ROFL
In hindsight this is just the natural course of events:
I mean... dedicating an entire section (read temper tantrum) to what they -and only they- called 'The Reddit Meltdown' O.O
Feminazi after feminazi propaganda and disinformation campaigns...
And now the final touch: stick the head in the sand "lalalala can't hear nofin!!" hahahahaha this is too adorable!!
So long Daily dot, as a long time visitor to your site (circa 2012 onwards), it is with not little sadness I say 'Fare well' I'll always remember when you used to be an interesting/fun forum to hang around with.
Not any more I'm afraid.
*goes to DailyDot bookmark's favicon* > Right click > delete
I wish someone would connect the dots once and for all
Every minute of this presentation ask yourself why encryption is so important to them... (Please disregard the title of the video. Focus on the bigger picture)
They've long realized that's the ONLY thing that can defeat surveillance and by proxy the only real threat to the Status Quo.
Reflect deeply on this
A delight
F..k my face this article was well written. Congrats to the author. Please have this piece as the standard for future posts. (Not saying that previous ones were bad though...)
On the substance, great news of course!
All about pushing his stated agenda
NSA director Mike Rogers testified in front of a Senate committee this week, lamenting that the poor ol’ NSA just doesn’t have the “cyber-offensive” capabilities (read: the ability to hack people) it needs to adequately defend the US. How cyber-attacking countries will help cyber-defense is anybody’s guess, but the idea that the NSA is somehow hamstrung is absurd.
This is all about this. No more no less.
So sad indeed...