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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tracking stuff came as soon as you could communicate asynchronously with a server, really. It became widely known and a plague in the 10s but it started as soon as Ajax was available. Keep in mind that Google and most of the websites were free and ads driven almost from the start because that was the only way to create a critical mass of users.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

True but since then Israel has done nigh to nothing to stop the creation of kibbutz in Palestine, and the occupation of land both in Gaza and in the West Bank, and Hamas has grown to pretty much erase any other political faction in Palestine. The PLO shrunk out of any international relevance since the death of Arafat and Israel is actually governed by the far-right. Alas! Everything went very wrong since the 90s.

Now, I am in no way expert in the subtleties of the political situation in Israel and Palestine, but it seems that the peace process in that region will always be doomed to fail.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Since Israel was founded there never had been a chance of a happy outcome. The claim on the land was tenuous at best then and neither Israel nor Palestine ever wanted to peacefully mingle. The fact that Israel is governed by far right religious nuts and Palestine by terrorists also adds to the problem, but hey! whatever works to assuage the "western world" guilt for the Shoah, right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Why limit yourself to seized data from the US only if hosted in the US if you can buy data from all over the world. In some respects that is a very smart move, in some other is deplorable and arrogant.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The moment I realised that is the moment I quit both cigarettes and Meta products...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

To be honest, the minimum you really need for a colourful website is just HTML and a dash of inline CSS, especially if you want to recreate that nostalgic early internet type of feeling. JavaScript is very much optional.

In my opinion you should start easy, understand how it all clicks together, especially HTML and then start building, and eventually rebuilding, on top of it after you have grasped the basics. Most people gets scared by HTML, CSS and JavaScript because they are usually presented together as if you couldn't use one without the others, but you most certainly can.

Just my 2 cents.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

high costs server side, poor quality of the videos, poor-ish internet connections, not enough powerful cell phones, etc. They were ahead of time. They achieved a decent success in the US but not much outside of it because of much of the reasons listed above.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I didn't see it in the comments but I am very happy with Podcast Guru om android.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bandcamp is a nice alternative, but much more limited to smaller artists and labels.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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