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YouTube likes views, not users complaining

22 October 2015

Drake has a new video out, “Hotline Bling”. He did not put it on YouTube, even though he has 2 official YouTube accounts, but on Apple Music. This did not stop a bunch of fake accounts claiming they have the real video, some of them using thumbnails from the original video to trick people to […]

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Why Facebook wants to host the news

26 March 2015

NYT reports. There are two explanations, both of them simple as pie: As I have said before, people need stuff to consume, that is why all sorts of people buy all kinds of newspapers, in an attempt to keep them afloat. All of them remember the time the internet was dry of information: no Wikipedia, […]

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YouTube substitutes the justice system in some countries

22 March 2014

Turkish authorities have in recent weeks asked Google to block the videos from YouTube’s Turkish website, the people familiar with the matter said. But amid a national scandal over corruption allegations, Google refused to comply because it believes the requests to be legally invalid, the people added. It’s nice to transform yourself into a judge. […]

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It’s time to stop with the fake HD video obsession?

31 July 2013

ArsT Technica has a long article about how YouTube stumbles at peak hour and it’s all the cable companies’ fault. Somehow true, the video consumption has grown in the past years and cable companies have a hard time providing the pipe necessary for that. This happens also with telecom companies and smartphone usage. But the […]

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What does “direct access” mean

9 June 2013

You’ve read all the incoherent babble about PRISM and how the American Government has access to data from Google, Yahoo, Facebook and others. Of course, everybody denies it, saying they do not provide direct access to their servers. Of course. What good would do to the government if they had root on 10, 100, 100.000 […]

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Tumblr has a lot of stolen content

19 May 2013

Before YouTube was bought by Google, people usually left them alone, allowing them to tons of stolen copyrighted videos. Soon after, it was raining with lawsuits. Now, things have calmed down, but there were a few dark years for YouTube’s lawyers. Same thing with Tumblr, which hosts lots of pr0n and lots of stolen content. […]

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How to block video ads inside videos in Chrome

18 November 2011

There is a well knoww issue that Chrome is not blocking video ads inside videos, even if the adblock rules state the video ad should be blocked. And I am not talking about YouTube videos, either. I have found a workaround for those intrusive autoplay non-skipable videos that some sites use. It requires some work, […]

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Let’s go bowling!

6 July 2011

SO, last week I met what seo guys are calling "google bowling". Some guy was upset he showed up first in google for his name with some spamming he did 3 years ago and used xrumer to enter 300.000 links to my blog. Google deleted my front page and the results for both my nick […]

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The web should be smaller

23 February 2011

Imagine all the duplicate videos from youtube removed. All the sites that are just reblogging the information from TechCrunch and AllThingsD without adding any value or opinion. All the duplicate images from blogger.com removed. The web is getting bigger, but not getting any better.

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Technically dissapointed

4 July 2010

I am a bit dissapointed by the technology around me. I was expecting a little bit more out of the gadgets i own. my car cd-player broke down, after bumping in a hole in the road. roads in Romania are faulty and my cd-player jumps every time i find a rough spot in the road. […]

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