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  • On the post: Bad Move: Google Removes AdBlock Plus From Google Play Store

    Wally ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2013 @ 08:59pm

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    I haven't got a clue how to set it up in the app version, but if you add subscriptions in the AdBlock Plus options menu found in your browser extensions menu...you can add new subscriptions.


    If you are running your web browser and you are using the app, use the Internet in WiFi mode.

  • On the post: Bad Move: Google Removes AdBlock Plus From Google Play Store

    Wally ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2013 @ 08:54pm

    Re: Re: Motive

    nasch, they make most of their revenue from advertising and AdBlock plus works by sending all Internet traffic through...browsing traffic. AdBlock plus blocks out DoubleClick ads rather heavily...DoubleClick is a subsidiary of Google's main advertising firm AdSense. AdSense is the advertising they use in Google's search engine. The point is they own the three largest Internet advertising firms on Earth. Two of these firms, AdWords and DoubleClick, put up random advertisements and don't care if the code contains malware. They use all three of them. I have used AdBlock plus for ages as a browser extension (since version 0.98 on FireFox) and have known how it runs in and out. It basically acts like a filter that blocks out a list of ad server URL's and as the OFFICIAL WEBSITE DESCRIBED IT, the app works just like the browser extensions. Since the browser extension versions don't interfere with other browser extensions...which could be considered apps as I site ChatZilla...you have installed. So logically speaking, if the app works the same way as the browser extensions, it won't block ads in apps.

  • On the post: DailyDirt: Melding Humans And Machines

    Wally ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2013 @ 06:36pm

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    Interesting that you should mention the works of the Apostle Luke in a medical based article :-)

  • On the post: Bad Move: Google Removes AdBlock Plus From Google Play Store

    Wally ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2013 @ 05:54pm

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    More to the point...
    "To filter ads, all traffic has to pass through [the] Adblock Plus [app]. Android considers this to be the traffic caused by the app, while it is in reality the sum of all traffic."

    It does nothing more than what a telnet server would do at a school to block "pornographic" images.

  • On the post: Bad Move: Google Removes AdBlock Plus From Google Play Store

    Wally ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2013 @ 05:50pm

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    Was it AdBlock Plus's website?

    http://adblockplus.org/en/android-about

    "Adblock Plus for Android is an Android app that runs in the background and filters ads, using the same filter lists as the Adblock Plus browser extensions."

    Works just like the browser extensions...it is for internet ads only....not app ads. Which means Google put their own revenue over that of it's Android consumers by pulling it from the App store.

  • On the post: SimCity Always-Online DRM Lets Hackers Play Godzilla With Anyone's Cities

    Wally ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2013 @ 05:39pm

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    That only means he gained access and turned off syncing as a courtesy to those whose games he hacked. Imagine if you will, if syncing was turned on while he hacked an account....the video shows it is possible to access another person's city.

  • On the post: SimCity Always-Online DRM Lets Hackers Play Godzilla With Anyone's Cities

    Wally ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2013 @ 05:27pm

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    *Maybe EA borrowed some code from Fortium Technologies Ltd....

  • On the post: SimCity Always-Online DRM Lets Hackers Play Godzilla With Anyone's Cities

    Wally ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2013 @ 05:24pm

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    "The problem is that, just as power can sometimes take a ridiculously long time to fill the entire map (because the "power agents" just randomly move about with no sense) traffic and workers can do the same thing. Workers leave their homes as "people agents." These agents go to the nearest open job, not caring at all where they worked yesterday."

    Give me the days when all you had to worry about were budget, traffic problems, pollution, population, crime, and disasters. That is all I request..the simplicity of the original with the updated graphics of today.

  • On the post: Bad Move: Google Removes AdBlock Plus From Google Play Store

    Wally ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2013 @ 04:45pm

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    "No reason EXCEPT for the fact that it violates one of the rules for the Play Store developer distribution agreements. Notably "You agree that you will not engage in any activity with the Market, including the development or distribution of Products, that interferes with, disrupts, damages, or accesses in an unauthorized manner the devices, servers, networks, or other properties or services of any third party including, but not limited to, Android users, Google or any mobile network operator. You may not use customer information obtained from the Market to sell or distribute Products outside of the Market."

    Oh how cute you use a proxy trolling attack to assert your authority over people.

    /s

    Without sarcasm I still assert that AdBlock Plus was a specific app that only worked the same way as it Browser Extension counterpart. In no way does it interfere with app ads.

    "I don't care that you said Google pulled a dick move."

    Clearly you don't care that I said that because all you've done is rail on my mistakes rather than get my point. Once again I call your reading comprehension into question.

    "Fuck Wally. How thick are you?"
    I am not the one with the attitude problem towards those who have less knowledge on the same subjects...you are.

    " "You agree that you will not engage in any activity with the Market, including the development or distribution of Products, that interferes with, disrupts, damages, or accesses in an unauthorized manner the devices, servers, networks, or other properties or services of any third party including, but not limited to, Android users, Google or any mobile network operator. You may not use customer information obtained from the Market to sell or distribute Products outside of the Market."

    Translation.....this only applies to apps interfering with in app advertising....

    Uou forget that when you surf the web and use AdBlock Plus....it blocks internet ads as you use your internet browser.

    Does AdBlock Plus cause harm to the user? Nope.

    Does it cause App developers to loose money while you block advertisements when you surf the web? Nope.

    Specifically, does AdBlockPlus interfere with AdSense and pretty much any other advertising company getting a hit for you viewing a web page even though you cannot see the advertisements on the presentation OSI layer? Nope...why? Because it blanks them from your viewing or seeing them. The ad servers cannot tell the difference between a human using a machine and a bot... they send garbage information back to the ad servers so they cannot track you. Advertisers only rely on the volume of traffic a website has. Website advertising makes money off of how many hits come to a website and not how many people [stupidly] click on the ads.

    By not caring to realize that this is the actual point of the article is pure lunacy and you started all this conversational back and forth shit in comment 127.

    As For Comment 127 (time stamp: Mar 17th, 2013 @ 7:11am)
    "But ONLY to do that without a proxy, as well as block ads in Chrome and in-app.

    "You DO NOT require root though to use AdBlock Plus, but it'll only block ads over WiFi (for Android 3.1+)."

    Oh really??? no shit Shurlock!!! Check out Comment 100.


    "Tsk tsk. It's like you go out of your way to be ignorant and wrong sometimes."

    You wonder how that isn't rude, and child-like? You need more help than I can give...go see a psychiatrist dude, I only deal with counseling married couples and people who don't need medication.

    "Any adblocking software or program interferes with and disrupts the services of third parties. As such, they would be in violation of said rule and subject to being pulled from the Play Store. (But still available elsewhere.)"

    How is it nor possible that Google's Adsense was "suffering". You do realize that the Chrome and Play market places are made by different divisions of developers in Google Inc. right? The AdBlock Plus app did not interfere with anything but web browsing advertisements. But I am sure Google, as smart as they are, "understood" that. Those "Third Parties" do several things for telco's and Google alike.

    This is the short as you clearly don't get the point and keep focusing on the legality of rooting:

    Google gets a complaint that nobody is "clicking" on ads that invade our tiny mobile browsers because the ads are blocked.

    Possibility 1: Those "third parties" are the same mooks running your cellular carrier services that use data caps as it also "interferes" with data caps going over. Most mobile browser keep the data you download from their pages and ads...these are called cache files and cookies...and they were once very useful in the days of dial-up internet. Trust me....the data downloaded and used up due to advertisements add up PDQ when downloading flash or banner ad obj-sets.

    Possibility 2: Google was losing money because people "couldn't see" the ads and advertisements they put up with AdSense.

    There are many ways to speculate on why they did this but the point is they pulled a specific app called AdBlock Plus........look at the title of the article mook.

    "Bad Move: Google Removes AdBlock Plus From Google Play Store".

    Now will you continue to defend Google like a ravenous fanboy or will you shut up about why they have a reason to pull an app that clearly DID NOT VIOLATE THE PLAY STORE TOS?

    Oh look!!! A Link!! OMG a LINK WAS INCLUDED IN THE ARTICLE!

    https://adblockplus.org/blog/adblock-plus-for-android-removed-from-google-play-store

    Third Fucking Paragraph from the article:
    While Google may not view it totally that way, in the past, Google has generally taken the position that what's best for the user is something that it will support, even if it's not directly the most beneficial thing for Google.

    Mike Mansick's Thesis Statement:
    Part of the appeal of the Google Play store is the lack of Apple iOS style walls and gates. Putting up those gates in a way that goes against user's own interests just seems like a bad long term decision.

  • On the post: Giant Pharma Company Claims Releasing Data On Drug Safety Is Illegal As It's Confidential And 'Commercially Sensitive'

    Wally ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2013 @ 10:08pm

    Stoner

    This whole situation is likened to a pair of stoners where one overdoses and the other is so tripped out that he can't tell the medics what they took because it interferes with his and his friend's buzz if they treat them.

  • On the post: Maxis: Your Reward For Buying Our Horribly Launched SimCity Is The Previous, Better Version Of It

    Wally ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2013 @ 12:42pm

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    You are safest in Ohio...though we do have a problem here as it is the only state in the US that sometimes requires you to use your heater in the morning and air conditioning that same day in the afternoon. And hey...we have The Avengers lurking around pretending Cleveland is New York City...we are totally safe it seems ;-P

  • On the post: Bad Move: Google Removes AdBlock Plus From Google Play Store

    Wally ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2013 @ 12:37pm

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    You're still butthurt about my assertion that Google made a dick move by pulling ad blocking apps (and specifically AdBlock Plus) aren't you...

    "Google had a reason to pull AdBlock Plus, along with all the other adblocking apps from the Play Store. I quoted the reason way above."

    Show me the link to the "quoted" reason above.

    "If you don't like how I talk to you, tough. That's your problem, not mine. Is it my fault you can't handle being corrected? No. Is it my fault you state things that aren't true? No. Is it my fault you can't admit being in the wrong on something? No. Those are all your personal issues and hangups."

    Oh yes blame the resident psychologist for your attitude problem. I could go on for hours showing examples of how you "write without insulting others". You have to talk to people with respect before they respond with it. Is it my fault that you are rude because of your belief that I am somehow inferior to you? NO. Is it your fault that even if I am wrong on minor details you always get hung up on my mistakes rather than looking for my point? No. Don't you dare project your own personal life at me and take it out on someone who can help you with your personal issues. You will quickly find out that your attitude is returned in kind from others towards you if you keep your shit up.

    All you got caught up in was the legality and never tried to correct me at all on whether or not Google pulled those apps for a legitimate reason. You just spouted legal shit and information that was totally useless to my point. You're entire focus was on the legality of rooting and how I was wrong about it. You never stated anything to counter the point that Google doing this was unnecessary for the specific app, "AdBlock Plus".

    Lets match the snow flake avatars that stay the same per article.....

    Subject is Rooting and how it is done and the legality of it:

    Here

    http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130315/15285222343/bad-move-google-removes-adblock-plus-google-play-store.shtml#c2258


    Here (where you first responded that unlocking the SIM card was completely legal in the US and you could do it on your own after I stated it was not legal without the carrier's permission)

    http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130315/15285222343/bad-move-google-removes-adblock-plus-google-play-store.shtml#c2454


    Here
    http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130315/15285222343/bad-move-google-removes-adblock-plus-google-play-store.shtml#c2408

    "Hardware code to unlock is the same fucking thing Wally."

    That code is stored on the devices that carry non-removable SIM cards which are locked. This is a very contradictory statement out of you because you were trying to correct me on that very point in here:

    "SIM cards are NOT tied to the firmware on the device itself. Meaning they are not tied to the operating system or the bootloader or root or anything like that. SIM cards are tied to the device themselves, and more specifically the IMEI number of a given device."

    Once again, most carriers tie them in..note I said MOST..so they can see if you voided your warranty by rooting your phone or device. If the IMEI doesn't match that number attached to the firmware on the device with that stored on the non-replaceable SIM card, you void your warranty and are SOL (Shit Out of Luck) on repairs or a free replacement.

    http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130315/15285222343/bad-move-google-removes-adblock-plus-google-play-store.shtml#c2618

    "Google had a reason to pull AdBlock Plus, along with all the other adblocking apps from the Play Store. I quoted the reason way above."

    Clearly you were wrong.

  • On the post: Maxis: Your Reward For Buying Our Horribly Launched SimCity Is The Previous, Better Version Of It

    Wally ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2013 @ 11:40am

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    Warning...Spoilers:
    http://waldo.wikia.com/wiki/SimCopter

  • On the post: Maxis: Your Reward For Buying Our Horribly Launched SimCity Is The Previous, Better Version Of It

    Wally ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2013 @ 11:37am

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    The SimCity franchise makes me prod to be a Luddite because the 3D reboots as of late have been awful and DRM ridden. SimCity 2000 and SimCopter is where the fun peaked.

  • On the post: Maxis: Your Reward For Buying Our Horribly Launched SimCity Is The Previous, Better Version Of It

    Wally ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2013 @ 11:35am

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    Just don't name your city "Tokyo" and you should be OK ;-)

  • On the post: Maxis: Your Reward For Buying Our Horribly Launched SimCity Is The Previous, Better Version Of It

    Wally ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2013 @ 11:34am

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    What makes SimCopter more awesome, Ninja, is that you can use it to fly around in SimCity2000 cities :-)

  • On the post: Giant Pharma Company Claims Releasing Data On Drug Safety Is Illegal As It's Confidential And 'Commercially Sensitive'

    Wally ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2013 @ 11:31am

    Re: I shouldn't have to disclose how much I pollute

    It has a bit more to do with medications and how the react when mixed with others more than anything else. They want to make it easier for pharmaceutical technicians to screw up doses and for them not to be able to countermand a prescription if a doctor mistakenly prescribes medications that don't mix well. The pharma. tech's job in a drug store is to make sure that the information they see on medical labels is accurate. These labels tell them everything from chemical composition to the combined atomic weight of the compounds the pill carries. The pharmaceutical tech at a drug store has a background in Biochemistry and should know by looking at labels and diagrams of molecules what can and cannot mix.

    More fun examples:
    Sildenafil Citrate (generic name of Viagra) mixing with Nitrate-based heart medications because both are designed to lower blood pressure. Both relax the muscles surrounding the veins and blood vessels and open up more blood flow through the body. Too little blood pressure and you die.

  • On the post: Bad Move: Google Removes AdBlock Plus From Google Play Store

    Wally ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2013 @ 06:18pm

    Motive

    It is totally about the revenue stream.

    "Google Inc. is an American multinational corporation that provides Internet-related products and services, including internet search, cloud computing, software and advertising technologies. Advertising revenues from AdWords generate almost all of the company's profits."

    OH NOZE I WAS WORNGZ IT WAZ AdWords NURT AdSense...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google

  • On the post: Bad Move: Google Removes AdBlock Plus From Google Play Store

    Wally ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2013 @ 11:10am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Side-loading

    "I mean sheesh. You'd think the iPhone lover would know that ANY device on AT&T's network uses a user replaceable SIM card."

    Any device accept the iPhone......you clearly know anything about side-booting and iPhone firmware. The firmware is the operating system.....kernel and shell, android is a kernel/shell operating system for mobile devices. The kernel holds Android's basic functions and the specific drivers (aka firmware) for your device. It operates them at s lower level not typcially seen on the GUI or Shell of Android. Some of the firmware is written in by carriers when a phone has an irreplaceable SIM card built in, and more often than not they tie a SIM Card to the specific phone's firmware.

  • On the post: Giant Pharma Company Claims Releasing Data On Drug Safety Is Illegal As It's Confidential And 'Commercially Sensitive'

    Wally ( profile ), 18 Mar, 2013 @ 10:45am

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    What we might call collateral damage, my wife calls the bloodbath of the century...

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