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1. madars+on[view] [source] 2023-02-23 22:37:44
>>taubek+(OP)
Or, in other words, FBI now recommends using Android :-) It's baffling how much better uBlock Origin + Firefox experience on Android is compared to any iOS ad blocker I have tried. They kind-of work but let half of the ads through.
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2. mlindn+0q[view] [source] 2023-02-23 22:50:35
>>madars+on
Do all the people who use computers to browse the internet (the majority of people on the internet) suddenly no longer exist?
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3. contra+Mq[view] [source] 2023-02-23 22:54:16
>>mlindn+0q
I'm wondering if those still are the majority, worldwide. Smart-phones have done a lot to democratize computing power (now if only they weren't used to put >90% of their users in corporate controlled walled gardens...)
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4. mlindn+U54[view] [source] 2023-02-24 23:52:15
>>contra+Mq
I don't actually believe smart-phones have done much to democratize computing power because phones don't give you much control over computing power. You can't develop software on a phone using a phone. And frankly the vast majority of phones have way more computing power than is actually used.

On a related point, the push to the cloud is befuddling when everyone has a phone with "free" (from the developer's point of view) computing power sitting there unused. Everyone's wasting money on centralizing compute despite more distributed compute being available than ever before.

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