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Re: "The Problem With Ads in Apps"
For what it's worth, credit card payment systems are generally very good from a privacy point of view.
That's because the card providers advocate for the card owners.
If you provide a dodgy payment gateway then mastercard, visa and friends will simply drop you and you are no longer a payment provider.
Feb 19 · 5 months ago
🚀 stack [OP] · Feb 19 at 18:00:
@Morgan, my concern is not about google stealing from my credit card. It's about privacy. Right now google knows all about my online habits, and can make a pretty good _guess_ about my identity. As soon as I give them a credit card, it is no longer a guess and I am deanonimized forever. Note that I never log into any google services, and never use the email used as the account for the android device... Why bother? I do not want google keeping tabs on me. I want what's left of my privacy
@stack, cool! if you have fedi account, you can follow my armenian language posts just to see the letters in the stream. i guess it annoys most of the people though. (: also if you have xmpp, i can add you to some local xmpp chatrooms. sure you won't understand anything but well. we have one english speaking xmpp room to share with our foreign friends what is happening here, but what is happening is so depressing that we don't. (:
and by the way, duo lingo is possible to use without the app, just from the browser. but i am not using it. i think of using it to learn (improve, radically improve) esperanto.
@stack Yes, I got that part :) it's a reasonable concern.
My point was that payments related data has real teeth :) it probably does not go into the same bucket as other data, because mixing/joining data with different constraints on it inevitably leads to expensive/embarrassing screwups.
I realize that this is not concrete enough to be of much use :) so, er, just making conversation really ;)
Back on topic: Pimsleur was into the idea of spaced repetition, actually I think he did some of the original research on it. If you sit through the audio course with a stopwatch I believe you'll find it roughly follows the "practice facts at increasing intervals" pattern.
And it's usually at this point that someone mentions Anki :) which is a great app/tool for any kind of fact-based learning.
The Problem With Ads in Apps — I was playing around with Duolingo today. I tried it a few years ago, just before the pandemic; it got a lot better. This time around, I didn't feel like an idiot poking at obvious multiple-choice questions. There is a good mix of different actions now, including speaking (which now works well). It is gamified, which is good for this sort of thing. So when I started with a browser, it started showing ads. That is fine as everything else on the web is doing the...