Carighan Maconar

The strength of life to face oneself has been made manifest. The persona Carighan has appeared.

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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Erm, podcasts very much get dynamically placed locally-relevant ads based on listener location (probably IP) by now. Which even makes sense, some ads are not legal to run for listeners in other countries, so as long as you conduct business there (say the BBC’s podcasts when listened to from Germany) then they got to abide by local advertising laws and hence need to partially present other ads. And would want to, as not all products of theirs are available in all countries equally (as some are local in their content) and hence they have no reason to run cross-selling ads.

    You actually see (hear?) this a lot nowadays. Sure, it doesn’t work with all platforms and definitely not with all providers, but “tracking” for ad-purposes exists in podcasts. For legal reasons, if nothing else.








  • Oh for sure criticism is valid, but it’s funny how people always forget all the actual good stuff being added, too.

    In general, not just Firefox-specific. People constantly forget how while Google search results have gone to shit, empyrical analysis showed that it went to shit more for other search engines (meaning if anything Google got comparatively better, but of course everyone got worse across the board, too). People constantly forget over all their little issues how some countries, including mine, have swapped >50% of their energy (from ~0%) to green energy in just 10 or so years. It’s too easy to see only the negative things.