Me too, ad blockers and all my media on Plex, etc. For me it's only when I watch live sport that I see adverts now, which I quite like, it's like a little window into what most other British people are seeing when they watch TV all week.
PLEX really makes me feel like I’m living in an awesome future, the one I imagined as a kid on the early internet where I can watch whatever I want whenever I want. Then I go to YouTube and am grossed out by all the ads and the sponsored portions in every video.
A. F12 and remove the div that says so or one of it's parent.
B. find another website that offer the same thing.
C. give up and temporarily disable adblock for that website until you do what you need to do and enable it again
what I find really annoying is website that tangle login to their ads, so when you have adblock software enabled it just silently fails.
the most recent example I encountered is https://www.edf.fr/ a government owned company, I couldn't get electricity for my new house unless I disabled ublock.
We were sharing pictures using infrared links before that. It sucks, 90% of the time it doesn’t work properly and if it works it’s extremely slow.
That’s why people share their pictures on WhatsApp, Snapchat or whatever.
Apple isn’t going to implement a service if the experience sucks, they’ll implement an alternative that doesn’t suck. Sometimes it’s limited to their ecosystem and sometimes it isn’t. If you don’t like it, use one of the alternatives.
1 in 6 adults in the UK have poor literacy skills [0] so it's important for the Gov website to clearly give information to people who maybe don't have the best comprehension even in their native language, especially when it comes to government/legal matters.
I have a Giffgaff SIM for this reason. The expiry is 6 months and I have remembered to use it within that period so far. Not ideal but I would imagine you need a 2FA code more regularly than that.
I wonder if used with a smartphone (mine is in a dumb Nokia) whether you can automated a SMS send or outgoing call once every month or something?
They could probably get the American government to flex if needed. 'Drop these demands or no Aston Martin will be sold in the US'. The problem with both companies being American is that the American government can retaliate with popular support, the ads write themselves
It depends on how far either side is willing to go. The UK is one of the few countries with which the US has an annual trade surplus ($21.8bn),[1] which is worth a lot more each year than Giphy's purchase price or even Facebook's UK revenue, so there is a lot of room for retaliation.
Traditional British media will drum up support for anti-Facebook actions, and the current UK government was elected on a mandate of defending perceived British sovereignty, with economic considerations being less important.[2] The UK government has already engaged in actions that harm its economic interests to safeguard its sovereignty.[3]
We have had this level of professionalism in London for some time now. It's not necessarily true that you must ride an older, uglier bike, though this will work.
All that is needed is to be the least stealable bicycle in the rack. In my case this means two locks of different kinds. It's a big deterrent and they will move on to other, easier targets.
If you can avoid being the lowest hanging fruit, you will probably be alright.
Professionalism in bike theft isn't so much about tools, but about organisation. Professional bike thieves will have a van, load it up with exactly the bikes they already know they can sell, and drive their load to the other side of the country (if your country is small like Netherland, that is), and sell them there. Or maybe sell them in a different country.
I've noticed that sometimes more expensive bikes simply don't get stolen while cheap ones do. I assume that's because of an easier market to sell them. There was a period when my son's children's bikes got stolen all the time, while my far more expensive cargo bike wasn't, despite it being only locked with a ring lock, and no chain. But of course a kid's bike is also much easier to pick up, and it had a very light lock.
In the Netherlands they won't attempt to sell them here. Too much risk with frame numbers etched in and other ways of marking it. The safest bet is to move them out of the country on the day they steal them; way out to Eastern Europe.
> All that is needed is to be the least stealable bicycle in the rack.
So true. Many people seem to imagine bike locks as an arms race between owners and thieves, but it's an arms race between owners and other owners. The role of thieves in that arms race is more like that of a judge than like that of a participant. Well, unless they refuse acting in that role and just pick up the entire rack...
Yeah, if I lock mine up anywhere in London (even in workplace bike stores), I always use three (different) locks. Faff and heavy to carry but, touch wood, no-one has stolen a bike of mine yet in 20 years.
Had 2 stolen so far, cut the bike lock off. I buy my bikes around $50 each or fix up side of the road ones. Basically disposable, given that I enjoy the process of fixing.
