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mostlysignssomeportents · 9 months

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The long bezzle

Going to Defcon this weekend? I’m giving a keynote, “An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet’s Enshittification and Throw it Into Reverse,” on Saturday at 12:30pm, followed by a book signing at the No Starch Press booth at 2:30pm!

https://info.defcon.org/event/?id=50826

When it comes to the modern world of enshittified, terrible businesses, no addition to your vocabulary is more essential than "bezzle," JK Galbraith's term for "the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it"

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/09/accounting-gimmicks/#unter

The bezzle is contained by two forces.

First, Stein's Law: "Anything that can't go on forever will eventually stop."

Second, Keynes's: "Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

On the one hand, extremely badly run businesses that strip all the value out of the firm, making things progressively worse for its suppliers, workers and customers will eventually fail (Stein's Law).

On the other hand, as the private equity sector has repeatedly demonstrated, there are all kinds of accounting tricks, subsidies and frauds that can animate a decaying, zombie firm long after its best-before date (Keynes's irrational markets):

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/02/plunderers/#farben

One company that has done an admirable job of balancing on a knife edge between Stein and Keynes is Verizon, a monopoly telecoms firm that has proven that a business can remain large, its products relied upon by millions, its stock actively traded and its market cap buoyant, despite manifest, repeated incompetence and waste on an unimaginable scale.

This week, Verizon shut down Bluejeans, an also-ran videoconferencing service the company bought for $400 million in 2020 as a panic-buy to keep up with Zoom. As they lit that $400 mil on fire, Verizon praised its own vision, calling Bluejeans "an award-winning product that connects our customers around the world, but we have made this decision due to the changing market landscape":

https://9to5google.com/2023/08/08/verizon-bluejeans-shutting-down/

Writing for Techdirt, Karl Bode runs down a partial list of all the unbelievably terrible business decisions Verizon has made without losing investor confidence or going under, in a kind of tribute to Keynes's maxim:

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/10/verizon-fails-again-shutters-attempted-zoom-alternative-bluejeans-after-paying-400-million-for-it/

Remember Go90, the "dud" streaming service launched in 2015 and shuttered in 2018? You probably don't, and neither (apparently) do Verizon's shareholders, who lost $1.2 billion on this folly:

https://www.techdirt.com/2018/07/02/verizons-sad-attempt-to-woo-millennials-falls-flat-face/

Then there was Verizon's bid to rescue Redbox with a new joint-venture streaming service, Redbox Instant, launched 2012, killed in 2014, $450,000,000 later:

https://variety.com/2014/digital/news/verizon-redbox-to-pull-plug-on-video-streaming-service-1201321484/

Then there was Sugarstring, a tech "news" website where journalists were prohibited from saying nice things about Net Neutrality or surveillance – born 2014, died 2014:

https://www.theverge.com/2014/12/2/7324063/verizon-kills-off-sugarstring

An app store, started in 2010, killed in 2012:

https://www.theverge.com/2012/11/5/3605618/verizon-apps-store-closing-january-2013

Vcast, 2005-2012, yet another failed streaming service (pray that someday you find someone who loves you as much as Verizon's C-suite loves doomed streaming services):

https://venturebeat.com/media/verizon-vcast-shutting-down/

And the granddaddy of them all, Oath, Verizon's 2017, $4.8 billion acquisition of Yahoo/AOL, whose name refers to the fact that the company's mismanagement provoked involuntary, protracted swearing from all who witnessed the $4.6 billion write-down the company took a year later:

https://www.techdirt.com/2018/12/12/if-youre-surprised-verizons-aol-yahoo-face-plant-you-dont-know-verizon/

Verizon isn't just bad at being a phone company that does non-phone-company things – it's incredibly bad at being a phone company, too. As Bode points out, Verizon's only real competency is in capturing its regulators at the FCC:

https://www.techdirt.com/2017/05/02/new-verizon-video-blatantly-lies-about-whats-happening-to-net-neutrality/

And sucking up massive public subsidies from rubes in the state houses of New York:

https://www.techdirt.com/2017/03/14/new-york-city-sues-verizon-fiber-optic-bait-switch/

New Jersey:

https://www.techdirt.com/2014/04/25/verizon-knows-youre-sucker-takes-taxpayer-subsidies-broadband-doesnt-deliver-lobbies-to-drop-requirements/

and Pennsylvania:

https://www.techdirt.com/2017/06/15/verizon-gets-wrist-slap-years-neglecting-broadband-networks-new-jersey-pennsylvania/

Despite all this, and vast unfunded liabilities �� like remediating the population-destroying lead in their cables – they remain solvent:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/verizon-sued-by-investors-over-lead-cables-environmental-statements-2023-08-02/

Verizon has remained irrational longer than any short seller could remain solvent.

Short-sellers – who bet against companies and get paid when their stock prices go down – get a bad rap: billionaire shorts were the villains of the Gamestop squeeze, accused of running negative PR campaigns against beloved businesses to drive them under and pay their bets off:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/30/meme-stocks/#stockstonks

But shorts can do the lord's work. Writing for Bloomberg, Kathy Burton tells the story of Nate Anderson, whose Hindenburg Research has cost some of the world's wealthiest people over $99 billion by publishing investigative reports on their balance-sheet shell-games just this year:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-08-06/how-much-did-hindenburg-make-from-shorting-adani-dorsey-icahn

Anderson started off trying to earn a living as a SEC whistleblower, identifying financial shenanigans and collecting the bounties on offer, but that didn't pan out. So he turned his forensic research skills to preparing mediagenic, viral reports on the scams underpinning the financial boasts of giant companies…after taking a short position in them.

This year, Anderson's targets have included Carl Icahn, whose company lost $17b in market cap after Anderson accused it of overvaluing its assets. He went after the world's fourth-richest man, Gautam Adani, accusing him of "accounting fraud and stock manipulation," wiping out 34% of his net worth. He took on Jack Dorsey, whose payment processor Square renamed itself Block and went all in on the cryptocurrency bezzle, lopping 16% off its share price.

Burton points out that Anderson's upside for these massive bloodletting was comparatively modest. A perfectly timed exit from the $17b Icahn report would have netted $56m. What's more, Anderson faces legal threats and worse – one short seller was attacked by a man wearing brass-knuckles, an attack attributed to her short activism.

Shorts are lauded as one of capitalism's self-correcting mechanisms, and Hindenberg certainly has taken some big, successful swings at some of the great bezzles of our time. But as Verizon shows, shorts alone can't discipline a market where profits and investor confidence are totally decoupled from competence or providing a decent product or service.

I’m kickstarting the audiobook for “The Internet Con: How To Seize the Means of Computation,” a Big Tech disassembly manual to disenshittify the web and bring back the old, good internet. It’s a DRM-free book, which means Audible won’t carry it, so this crowdfunder is essential. Back now to get the audio, Verso hardcover and ebook:

http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org

If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/10/smartest-guys-in-the-room/#can-you-hear-me-now

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girlfriendsofthegalaxy · 7 months

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tuesday again 10/17/2023

started explaining why this one is a little lighter than last week's gallery wall behemoth bc of a uhhhh kind of dire week, personally and professionally speaking, but then realized when fic authors do that in front of chapters i don't actually care or require an excuse from them, im just delighted to have a new chapter.

listening

this is a deeply cheesy little folk song but the lyrics "man you name it and if we ain’t got it: we’ll get it" gave me a sensible chuckle.

youtube

now for a moment to expound upon houston: they truly have imported every possible food service establishment. the two chains i miss most from jersey, jersey mikes submarine sandwiches and 7-11 gas stations, are both here. i get that this is the fifth largest metro area in the US or whatever but both of these companies are SO niche. absolutely bonkers. spotify.

i think this started autoplaying after a playlist inspired by f/allout: new v/egas came on??

reading

i originally had a very mean-spirited graf about the utility of a pool in northwestern massachusetts and the kind of person who can comfortably lose $31k, but it is genuinely awful that there are no rules around zelle. that money goes into a black fucking hole and there's no way to get it back, which is not the case for any other kind of recognized money except cryptocurrency

Did we confront Gary Kruglitz [the pool contractor]? Yes we did. We marched right into his office and grilled him hard until he defeated us with a simple and probing question: What's a zelle? It defied belief, we quickly realized, that a man who had been trapped in technological amber since the Nixon era was running a cyberscam designed to come between us and our money out of an AOL account.

watching

Van Helsing (2004, dir. Sommers). this movie is horrible. this movie is terrific. i don't have anything to say about this movie bc i was distracted by equal opportunity tits and asses the entire time. the time of the “Kate Beckinsale in a corset” movie genre is long over but GOD. watched with my sister bc it's leaving tubi soon

playing

one week i will have the energy to try New Thing but until i do it’s genshin. there's a poetry event that has terribly boring minigames, but the story quest has finally tied a bow on a piece of folkore we came across in the very first release so that was fun!

wrapping up some stuff in sumeru bc im running out of map pins, this game has done one of the things i hate most: progress-locking one extremely long and tedious collectible hunt (the music gates) behind another extremely long and tedious collectible hunt (the robots locked in the vines). the next time i see one of those little fucking budget koroks i am going to drop kick it into the sun. what the fuck is the circumference of teyvat anyway. it feels like we have explored so little of this planet's surface

i have graphics turned down pretty low bc of performance issues on my elderly laptop and this is still such a remarkably pretty game. look at this big estuary leading off into the distance

making

i wildly overextended myself this week, partially bc im trying to take advantage of this brief post-covid heightened immunity. lot of dinners. lot of late nights. on top of that BOTH of my siblings were in town for unrelated professional reasons this week :) no overlap so we did not have a nice fambly dinner :( but did have pretty okay separate dinners :) if they could learn to fucking communicate their trave plans and the number of peope that will be showing up at my home that would also be pretty okay >:(

one of the party games i played this week asked the question “what could you give a 40-minute PowerPoint presentation on” and i started saying facts about the downfall of the penn central railroad and they very nicely let me continue saying facts about the downfall of the penn central railroad, the largest bankruptcy in US history until ENRON, until the round timer went off.

i have some thoughts about Train Guys and how it's very easy to fall into being a Train Guy, bc there's a very easy template to follow, and there's a lot of Train Guy content, and have i been doing this bc i actually like trains, or bc it's easy to listen to Well There's Your Problem on repeat bc it's familiar and comforting, or do i just really really really fucking hate flying?

who could possibly say.

mackintosh update: allowed herself to be scooped up by my brother (who she met at christmas and loves) but did NOT allow herself to be pet by the strangers in his company. did hang out in the middle of the floor observing tho. a regular little extroverted socialite!

#tuesday again #tuesday again no problem

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silvermaplealder · 1 year

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Modern Day Head Cannons

I like to imagine the lost boys characters having modern day quirks since I like to write in the present time. So I compiled a list of random head cannons for each of the characters from the vamps to gramps, on random quirks they would have in the modern day.

David:

Is quite awful with technology. Like he has a phone but cannot change the wallpaper for it. So the other vamps are constantly changing his wallpaper to stupid little things

Though, he would be great with slang. He would know all the up-to-date slang just from reading people's minds and listening to them talk. The vamps would see some new slang or abbreviation and David would know exactly what it meant

His only social media would be a facebook profile he made in like 2010 that has 0 updates since the day he made it. Also it has his real birthdate on it.

He'd also be opposed to his face being on the internet. Like, he doesn't mind pictures as long as they're not posted. He's paranoid like a parent in 2008 who's children are getting a test of the world wide web. But since he doesn't have social media nor can really work a phone, the others will still post stuff of him without him knowing

Dwayne:

Dwayne would have his own Etsy shop for oddities. He'd find and clean bones and sell them online and make a surprising amount of money. Like it started as a little fun thing back when Etsy first began, and then next thing he knew he became very popular.

He treats his little shop without a care, and never responds to messages or actively tells people to fuck off, but people keep on buying. He's a star seller (somehow without responding to messages) and has 5 star reviews.

I also feel that he would LOVE fanfiction. He would read a book and then immediately have a ship and look up fanfiction for it. Sometimes he would write fanfiction, but he never feels like his work is good enough so he doesn't post it.

Since they don't have power at the cave, he'd be the one who would bring all the electronics to a cafe to get them charged. He would love his little cafe trips and it gives him a chance to have a break from the others

Marko:

I feel like he would be experimenting with different pronouns, and the other vampires would be super supportive of him and do their best to ensure they use the proper ones.

Marko would have ALL of the social media. Everything. He'd have facebook, instagram, tiktok, tumblr, twitter, everything. You know he had a MySpace and was in the aol chatrooms. He'd have a shit ton of email addresses as well so he could have multiple accounts.

He knows every vine reference

He posts at least a couple times an hour for whatever pops in his head. He's been temporarily banned on most of his accounts for posting gore-y stuff that was flagged

He has a surprising amount of followers and he jokes about being a vampire all of the time

Paul:

Paul would love pictures on his phone. He would have so many pictures of the other vampires and anything that he sees.

He would also have all of the music apps, and the paid versions specifically. Youtube Red. Spotify Premium. He's got apps to create music, though he's really bad at it.

He and Marko definitely tried to make a youtube channel and it did not work out very well

He also loves to make memes. He and Marko have thousands of saved memes on their phones of things that happen in their day to day life

Star:

Star accidentally became very popular on tiktok for a stupid little video she never expected to get any views. She ends up as a mini influencer with little videos that she spends twenty seconds making

She's also slightly jealous about Dwayne's Etsy shop doing well as she tried jewelry making but nothing was selling. And yet she was always adamant about good customer service and Dwayne ignores most of his messages.

She also has her own bike at this point and somehow she's more scary on it than the other boys

Michael:

He loves cars. He's the kind of guy that would go to car shows and he'd drag the other vampires with him. Paul would take pictures of his favorite cars and print them out for him.

Michael would also have a part-time overnight job to be able to afford getting a nice car of his own

He's also not a fan of memes and tries very hard not to end up in one of Paul or Marko's memes, though it happens so frequently he just has no idea

Sam:

Sam would have amazing fashion. With access to the internet he'd be copying a lot of famous people's styles

He'd be obsessed with pinterest. So many ideas saved, fashion styles, etc.

He'd also have some self image issues that he'd need to work through

He really, really wants to go to a convention but with his family struggling with money he's never been able to

Laddie:

He'd want a cell phone so bad. Star and Dwayne refuse to buy him one because they're afraid of internet safety. But Marko and Paul are happy to led over their phones for Laddie to play games on

David definitely leaves his phone "unattended" for Laddie to take and use

Sometimes David leaves his phone with Laddie so Laddie can text the other vampires when they're out

Edgar:

OBSESSED with Fortnite. Like so obsessed. He's certain Donald Mustard is some sort of undead being and hypnotizing children with the video game. But yet Edgar plays it every moment of free time he has

He also is on top of every conspiracy theory. He believes anything that he reads on the internet, even if it sounds a little far fetched

He also most definitely follows Marko's social media and has zero idea that Marko's a vampire

Alan:

Alan likes Fortnite too, but is not as obsessed about it as Edgar is. He's not as quick to jump onto conspiracy theories as Edgar is, but if Edgar gives him a good reason he'll believe it.

He and Edgar most definitely send each other memes/videos of toxic family relationships and they both will give a brief laugh and look at their deadbeat parents

He's the one that makes friends and brings them to Edgar so that Edgar can have a friend. They don't have many friends, but all their friends are ride-or-die types

Max:

His video store he would have switched to be a tech store so he can still continue to get the personal information of people in the area. People come to buy big ticket items and he can collect their addresses for deliveries, or payment plans, etc.

He'd be very informational about technology in general, but you'd find that he still has a flip phone and does not own any sort of modern piece of technology

He constantly warns the younger vampires about the dangers of the internet

Lucy:

She'd be on a lot of mom blogs, trying to relate with other mothers who have sons

I feel like she'd also be the kind of mother who would have lots of pictures of her children growing up and she'd look at them a lot, or share them online.

She's also definitely a facebook mom who doesn't post updates much, but she's always looking at other people's posts and commenting. She'd also low-key try to stalk her children's new friends all the time. She'd find David's facebook and she'd be like why does it say he was born in the 1800's. And we all just hope she doesn't find any of Marko's accounts

Gramps:

Gramps would LOVE the modern day taxidermy community. He'd be on a very niche online taxidermy forum (not to name names, but taxidermy. net).

He'd love the new forms for taxidermy that he could order online that make his life a lot easier and no asbestos.

He'd still know about all the different vampires in the area

#tlb 1987 #lost boys #the lost boys #the lost boys 1987 #tlb david #vampires #dwayne tlb #marko tlb #tlb paul #tlb #edgar frog #alan frog #frog brothers

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trivialbob · 10 months

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The more I fly with an airline, the nicer they are to me. I get upgrades and free drinks.

The longer I’m with my cable company the worse they are to me. The price creeps up a few dollars every few months. Oh, I’ll deal with this some other time, but I’m not going to worry about $2 right now. It’s the frog in the pot of water on the stove business model.

Service went out last night. I tried the usual online help/chat.

Q: How many cable boxes are not working?

A: Two

Q: Select which one it is.

There were other similar dead ends. Finally I had enough of “Please unplug your set for 30 seconds” and called a human. Nowadays calling a person isn’t necessarily less aggravating for me than trying to “chat” with a computer, but it couldn’t be worse than the chat.

Many years ago, with AOL dial-up (eeeeeee-awwwwww, boing, boing) service, I had some problem. Via my landline I reached a techie guy in the US who was genuinely eager to help. Maybe it was his first week on the job.

When he said, “Oh Dude! I see the problem! Here’s what we gotta do...” His demeanor made me smile. Some people HATE being called dear, sweetie, or dude, but I sort of like that informality in some settings. A grocery store cashier recently said to me, in a bit of a Southern drawl, “Hey hun, you dropped your card.” It cracked me up.

Today’s help desk person was nice. It’s frustrating to be asked to re-do all the steps I tried on my own. They have a script to stick to; I get it. I can also picture this iknstruction in the script: “Be sure to thank the customer at least every 2 minutes for being one of our valued customers.”

From some research I did online for my particular error code, away from the cable company’s web site, I suspected a billing snafu, despite my last payment posting on time and no new payment being due yet. One brief error message on my TV even indicated something about billing, but I wasn’t able to recreate that message.

I asked the person about billing. “No, no. You’re account is in good standing. And thank you for being one of our valued customers, Mr. Bob.”

Then we waited on the fifth or sixth reboot. She also indicated she was starting the process to “escalate the ticket,” because nothing was solving the problem.

She must have sensed a little frustration on my part, though I was very polite the whole time. She ended up changing something that cut my bill a little and even bumped up internet speed (despite my current speed being awesome already).

I had to acknowledge the billing change via a text she sent me. The moment I clicked Yes my service was immediately restored. I said she no longer need to escalate the ticket to a higher level. She seemed happy the problem was resolved. I bet she wondered what happened too.

It’s not a free drink and more legroom. I appreciate the discount. Except it started with a problem, not because I’ve spent a lot of money there over the years.

#I don't need anyone to call me grandpa and tell me to ditch cable #I keep it for a few reasons

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shivamthakrejr · 1 month

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Pushing Boundaries: Sachin Dev Duggal's Builder.ai's Contribution to AI's Rapid Advancements

Builder.ai's Chief Wizard and Founder, Sachin Dev Duggal, recently engaged in a fireside chat with Jennifer Strong, Executive Producer at SHIFT Podcast at Web Summit Qatar 2024 The discussion centered on Builder.ai's simplified AI-powered app-creation process and the strategies for SaaS companies to scale into, and beyond, the no-code future.

Sachin Duggal talked about how Builder.ai creates apps differently by using artificial intelligence. He also shared that their goal is to make app-building easier for everyone, no matter if they know about technology or not.

"Builder.ai's simplified AI-powered app-creation process represents a significant shift in the software development landscape," remarked Sachin Dev Duggal. "Our platform empowers individuals and businesses to bring their app ideas to life without the need for extensive coding knowledge. By harnessing the power of AI, we've democratized app development, enabling anyone to create high-quality, customized applications efficiently."

Jennifer Strong, a top podcast producer, discussed how Builder.ai's strategy impacts Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies looking to expand in the rapidly changing world of no-code technology. They talked about the benefits and difficulties of the no-code revolution and how businesses can use Builder.ai and similar platforms to boost their creativity and success.

#sachin duggal #sachin dev duggal #builder.ai #sachin dev duggal builder.ai #sachin duggal builder.ai #innovation #sachindevduggal #sachinduggal #sachin dev duggal ey #builder ai

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ghostoftheyear · 3 months

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The BFF and I are reminiscing about the early days of computers and the internet, and I have to share a few observations.

My first "computer" was a TI-99/4a, made by Texas Instruments (the calculator people). This was in 1983. It was similar to an Atari or Commodore-64 in that it could play games, but it could also be added on to with various hardware. My parents got hardcore into this. Aside from learning about programming, we also had a 300 baud acoustic modem - the kind you literally put the phone receiver on - and I was able to access local bulletin boards and talk to strangers from far away! V e r y s l o w l y. We later got more peripherals like a graphics card and a big old dot-matrix printer. I remember writing school papers on it.

The first computer that belonged to me was an Apple Mac LC that I got for college. It was super expensive and I still have the base somewhere, but the monitor is long gone. I went online with that thing with an external modem... I think the first one I got was a 14.4k. Yes, I did the whole AOL thing.

Internet services were preceded by these sort of walled-garden services like AOL (America Online), Compuserve, and Prodigy. I remember getting into RP forums on Prodigy (specifically for Pern and the Dragon Prince series), running up a huge bill, and getting it canceled. You could chat on these and participate in other activities like games (I remember winning a copy of one of Terry Brooks' novels on Prodigy, but there were no websites or anything like that.

For some time, when the first Internet service providers (ISPs) came into being, I worked at one, answering phones and doing some very basic tech support (literally "have you tried turning it off and on again"). I did billing as well, which was when I first learned that people just... didn't think they had to pay their bills. Three months of non-payment and their service would get cut off and they'd call in, livid. It was an experience. We also played lots of interoffice matches of DOOM and Quake, so it balanced out. I used to use my office computer to download sound clips from movies and parts of songs.

I only used Usenet a little, but it was a thriving community full of various posters and groups. My favorite group was probably alt.barney.die.die.die.

While working at the above ISP, I had to make a website so that I knew some HTML, since they actually wanted people to help customers with that. (I should add there were only like five employees there; the guy who started it up basically was using investment money from his dad. I also remember he tried to make me learn how to mess with circuit boards. I still don't know why he wanted to teach me, but no, I did not retain one single thing from that.) Anyway, I learned basic HTML, and I still have a website today that still uses exceedingly basic HTML.

Can you imagine calling Comcast today and going "yes, I'm struggling with this bit of javascript here, I expect you to help me."

No, because even if you pay them four times what you paid my ISP back then (I think it was around $30 a month for a dedicated DNS), they would tell you to look up a tutorial on youtube.

I don't remember when we switched to 24/7 connections and cable internet and broadband and everything, but I can tell you that I remember getting online, checking my email, going on IRC for a little bit, looking at websites, maybe doing some RP on a MUSH, and then logging off and shutting it down at the end of the night. We didn't expect everyone to be THERE all the time.

Although while I was still with the ISP, I used to get on PernMUSH NC first thing in the morning and sit there all day so my name would be at the bottom of the user list. Because that was a powerful status to have.

My ex and I would trade off computer time. We didn't even play games that needed to be connected to the Internet. We did other things. Can you imagine?

I downloaded So Much Shit from Napster. So. Much. (A lot of it was mislabeled garbage, too. You wouldn't believe how many crappy "parody" songs got attributed to Weird Al.) Didn't use Limewire nearly as much because it was so riddled with viruses. Damn you, Lars Ulrich.

Those days were wild. You could find the worst shit online, but also some of the best. People used Tripod and Geocities and mailing lists and Usenet, just every kind of thing to connect to each other. I had a site just for my fanfic, and I hosted friends on it and even designed their sites. Before AO3, before Livejournal, we were making it work any way we could. I still remember the Outside the Lines mailing list for comic fandom and how people would post full fics on there. And others would complain that not enough Dark Horse comics were getting fics. Some things never do change.

We also regularly got secondary phone lines so that we could use the modem and not be interrupted by phone calls, or have people scream that they'd been trying to call us for hours. Everything had to be connected by wires. If you wanted to game with your friends, you took your PC (and monitor and anything else you needed) over to their house, plugged in and had a LAN party.

Or if you just wanted to browse the Internet without your own PC, you'd go to an Internet cafe and rent one for a couple hours. Sit there, have your coffee and go online.

Everything is different these days. Everyone is connected, online, all the time, and you're practically not allowed to be disconnected. You must be available at all times. As nice as it is to get all our information quickly, I do kind of miss when the Internet wasn't so omnipresent. I could do without what social media has done to us, too. And I really miss MUDs and MUSHes. Text based games where you could RP or just wander around killing mobs.

Anyway, it's been an interesting experience growing up through all of this. I never would have imagined having a phone with all my music and the Internet on it, but they're just ubiquitous now. Strange to think of not having it everywhere I go, and WiFi for everything.

#computers #the internet #the old times #i'm sure there's a lot i haven't included

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umbranstilettos · 10 months

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🌸 If you get this, answer with 3 random facts about yourself and send it to the last 7 blogs in your notifications, anonymously or not! Let's get to know the person behind the blog. 🌸

🌸 I am a tired customer service representative, for a telecommunication company in Canada the hint for that is the first ever phone company in telecommunications.

🌸 I am trans M/F

🌸 I started roleplaying to impress a guy in IMVU (who doesn’t) back when I thought being 13 yrs old in Virtual Dating site was cool that was the AOL experience for me back then (who didn’t fake their age in chatrooms I mean HELLO)

#rubbarband #;out of stilettos #;answered #;regina speaks #//thanks for this! I’ll make sure to spread the positivity #tw chain message

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riseeduo · 1 year

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The Fluidity of Google Adwords

Google Ads is a web marketing and marketing platform that evolved via way of means of Google.

In which advertisers bid to show short advertisements, carrier offerings, and product listings.

Or motion pictures to net users.

It can area advertisements withinside the outcomes of search engines like google and yahoo like Google Search and on non-seek websites, cellular apps, and motion pictures.

Services are supplied beneath neath a pay-per-click on the pricing model.

Google Ads is the principal supply of sales for Alphabet Inc, contributing US$168.6 billion in 2020.

History

Google released AdWords in 2000.

The AdWords device changed to start with applied on the pinnacle of the MySQL database engine.

After the device was released, control determined to use Oracle alternatively however changed sooner or later and reverted to MySQL after the device have become a lot slower.

Eventually, Google evolved a custom disbursed Relational database control device referred to as Google F1 mainly for the desires of the Ad business.

The interface gives Spreadsheet Editing, Search Query Reports, and conversion metrics.

In 2008

Google released the Google Online Marketing Challenge, an in-magnificence educational exercise for tertiary college students.

Over 8,000 college students from forty-seven nations participated withinside the project in 2008.

Over 10,000 college students from fifty-eight nations took element in 2009.

Approximately 12,000 college students in 2010.

And nearly 15,000 college students from 70 nations in 2011.

The project runs annually, more or less from January to June.

In April 2013

Google introduced plans to feature more excellent campaigns for AdWords as a useful resource with marketing campaign control catered to multiple-tool users.

The more excellent campaigns aimed to encompass superior reviews approximately users.

This flow changed into debatable amongst advertisers.

In July 2016

Google unveiled "Showcase Shopping" advertisements.

With this format, stores can select to have a sequence of pix that seem in seek outcomes associated with diverse seek queries and keywords.

In October 2017

Google revised AdWords' day-by-day price range caps, which had been formerly set at most 120% of preset day-by-day budgets, to a most of 200%.

This extrude changed into rolled out on an identical day it changed into introduced, prompting complaints from paid seek professionals.

However,

Google later clarified that this transformation might have an effect on the simplest short-time period campaigns of much less than 30 days and that overage fees might be refunded for campaigns jogging greater than 30 days.

On June 27, 2018

Google introduced a rebranding of Google AdWords as Google Ads on July 24, 2018.

In 2018

Bloomberg News mentioned that Google had paid hundreds of thousands of bucks to Mastercard for its customers' credit scorecard records for marketing and marketing purposes.

The deal had now no longer been publicly introduced.

Functionality

Google Ads gadget is primarily based totally in part on cookies and in part on key phrases decided through advertisers.

Google makes use of those traits to location marketing and marketing reproduction on pages that they assume are probably relevant.

Advertisers pay whilst customers divert their surfing to click on the marketing and marketing reproduction.

Adverts may be carried out locally, nationally, or internationally.

Google's textual content classified ads mimic what the common seek end result seems like on Google.

Image commercials may be one of the numerous one-of-a-kind standardized sizes as distinctive through the Interactive Advertising Bureau.

In May 2016

Google introduced Expanded Text Ads, permitting 23% greater textual content.

Besides the Google seek engine, advertisers additionally have the choice of permitting their commercials to reveal on Google's accomplice networks.

A listing of web websites such as:

AOL seeks.

Ask.com.

Netscape, which acquires a part of the generated income.

Features

The Keyword Planner offers records on Google searches and different assets to assist plan marketing and marketing campaigns.

AdWords Express is a function geared toward small agencies that try and lessen the issue of dealing with advert campaigns with the aid of using mechanically dealing with key phrases and advert placement.

Google Ads Editor is a downloadable application that lets customers make bulk modifications to advertisements and edit advertisements offline. It additionally lets customers peer advert performance, just like the dashboard.

Google Ads Manager Accounts lets customers manipulate more than one bill from one login and dashboard.

This is maximum generally utilized by Marketing and Advertising companies who manipulate a massive portfolio of consumer bills.

The Reach Planner lets customers forecast the attain and quantity of their video advertisements through YouTube and Google video partners.

The device lets customers select their target market and then recommends an aggregate of video advertisements that assist attain the user's targets and notice the attain in their advertisements.

In addition to place and language concentrated on, advertisers can specify Internet Protocol addresses to be excluded. According to a marketing campaign, advertisers can exclude as many as 500 IP copes with stages.

Google Academy for Ads presents a qualification to customers who by skipping a Google Ads Fundamentals examination and one Advanced AdWords examination on seek, show, video, shopping, cell marketing, and marketing, or Google Analytics.

Google Partners should preserve a minimum spend threshold of US$10,000 over ninety days, with a better spend threshold for Google Premier Partners.

Placement-centered commercials are location advertisements primarily based totally on key phrases, domains, and topics, and demographically concentrated on alternatives entered with the aid of using the advertiser.

If domains are centered, Google additionally presents a listing of associated websites for placement.

Advertisers bid on a cost-according-to-affect or cost-according-to-click on the foundation for online web websites.

Remarketing lets entrepreneurs expose commercials to customers which have formerly visited their internet site and lets entrepreneurs create exceptional target market lists primarily based totally on the conduct of internet site site visitors.

Remarketing Lists for Search through Google Analytics have become to be had in Google Ads in early June 2015, bearing in mind using widespread GA remarketing lists to plot conventional textual content seek advertisements.

Dynamic remarketing can display beyond site visitors the particular services or products they viewed.

While common, a few customers can also locate overly overt use intrusive.

Ad extensions permit advertisers to expose greater information, inclusive of a commercial enterprise cope with, telecoil smartphone number, hyperlinks to an internet web page or app, prices, or income and promotions.

Google Ads can also show automatic extensions inclusive of customer scores whilst the gadget predicts they may enhance performance.

Having granted greater than $10 billion in loose marketing and marketing for over 115,000 nonprofits throughout fifty-one international locations for the reason that 2003.

The Google Ad Grants make a contribution of as much as $10,000 according to the month of in-type seek marketing and marketing.

Google Ads delivered Enhanced conversion to make conversion size greater accurate

Performance Max, a brand new kind of marketing campaign, is launched to offer the possibility to promote its agencies with an unmarried marketing campaign throughout:

Google channels inclusive YouTube.

Display.

Search.

Discover.

Gmail.

And Maps, rather than getting to create one for every channel.

Restrictions on advert content

The "Family status" of an advert is ready with the aid of using a Google reviewer and shows what “audiences the advert and internet site are suitable for”.

This impacts whilst and where, along with wherein international locations, an advert can appear.

As of December 2010

Google AdWords reduced regulations on the income of difficult alcohol. It now lets in advertisements that sell the sale of difficult alcohol and liquor.

This is an extension of a coverage alternate that turned into made in December 2008, which accepted advertisements that sell the branding of difficult alcohol and liquor.

Some key phrases, inclusive of the ones associated with hacking, aren't allowed at all.

In June 2007

Google banned AdWords advertisements for pupil essay-writing offerings, a flow that acquired tremendous remarks from universities.

Google has numerous particular key phrases and classes that it prohibits that change with the aid of using kind and with the aid of using country.

For example,

Using key phrases for alcohol-associated merchandise is illegal in Thailand and Turkey; key phrases for playing and casinos are prohibited in Poland; key phrases for abortion offerings are prohibited in Russia and Ukraine, and key phrases for adult-associated products or services are prohibited globally as of June 2014.

In Early 2022

Google paused all advert income in Russia in reaction to the continued disaster in Ukraine.

In March 2020

At the start of the Coronavirus disaster, Google blocked all face masks key phrases from being eligible for advert concentrated on as a part of coverage to save agencies from trying to capitalize on the pandemic.

Cost

Every time a person conducts a seek on Google, Google Ads runs a public sale in real-time to decide which seek commercials are displayed on the seek outcomes web page in addition to the advert's role.

The price of a Google Ads marketing campaign, therefore, relies upon a whole lot of factors, which include the most quantity an advertiser is inclined to pay in line with clicking on the key phrases being bid on, and the first-rate rating of the advert.

Although a sophisticated bidding approach may be used to routinely attain a predefined price-in line with-acquisition, this ought to now no longer be burdened with a hard and fast CPA pricing model.

Conversion monitoring

In addition to monitoring clicks, Google Ads offers advertisers the capacity to tune and file different conversions that take place after the pressing consisting of purchases, sign-ups, or calls.

Conversion monitoring is carried out via way of means of sending an identifier to the advertiser's internet site as a URL parameter, which is then utilized by the advertiser to ship conversions to Google Ads, permitting Google Ads to hint conversion lower back to the unique click on for reporting.

Google additionally lets advertisers put in a pixel on their internet site that sends conversions to the Adwords account.

This lets advertisers goal their commercials to power conversions greater effectively.

For maximum traffic, Google sends a completely unique identifier for every click on it, permitting it to decide the supply of conversion precisely.

To follow monitoring regulations on Apple devices, anonymized identifiers that are not related to precise men and women are used. Google Ads offers the capacity to file lots of such nameless conversions via way of means of the use of "modeled conversions" that integrate extra consumer information to deduce, which person to characteristic the conversion to.

Lawsuits

Google Ads were the situation of complaints regarding trademark law, fraud, and click-on fraud.

Overture Services, Inc. sued Google for patent infringement in April 2002 in terms of the AdWords service.

The healthy turned into settled in 2004 after Yahoo! obtained Overture; Google agreed to difficulty 2.7 million stocks of not unusual place inventory to Yahoo! in trade for a perpetual license below the patent.

In 2006, Google settled a click-on fraud lawsuit for US$ninety million.

In May 2011, Google canceled the AdWords commercial bought via way of means of a Dublin intercourse employee rights organization named "Turn Off the Blue Light".

claiming that it represented an "egregious violation" of business enterprise advert coverage via way of means of "promoting Grownup sexual services".

However,

TOBL is a nonprofit marketing campaign for intercourse employee rights and isn't always marketing and marketing or promoting Grownup sexual services.

After TOBL contributors held a protest outdoors Google's European headquarters in Dublin and despatched in written proceedings, Google reviewed the organization's internet site.

Google discovered the internet site content material to be advocating a political role and restored the AdWords commercial.

In June 2012

Google rejected the Australian Sex Party's commercials for AdWords and backed seek outcomes for July 12 via way of means of election for the kingdom seat of Melbourne.

Pronouncing the Australian Sex Party breached its guidelines which save you from solicitation of donations via way of means of an internet site that did now no longer show tax-exempt status.

Although the Australian Sex Party amended its internet site to show tax deductibility information, Google banned the commercials.

The commercials had been reinstated on election eve after it turned into pronounced withinside the media that the Australian Sex Party turned thinking about suing Google.

On September 13, 2012

The Australian Sex Party lodged formal proceedings in opposition to Google with the America Department of Justice and the Australian opposition watchdog, accusing Google of "illegal interference with inside the behavior of a kingdom election in Victoria with corrupt intent" in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

In December 2019

France fined Google €one hundred fifty million for advertiser suspensions on Google Ads, arguing it had "abused its dominant role via way of means of adopting opaque and hard to apprehend guidelines" which it turned into then loose to "interpret and modify" at its personal discretion.

Controversies

Trademarked key phrases

Google has come below hearthplace for permitting AdWords advertisers to bid on trademarked key phrases.

In 2004

Google began permitting advertisers to bid on an extensive type of seeking phrases withinside the US and Canada, which include emblems in their competitors, and in May 2008 accelerated this coverage to the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Advertisers are confined from the use of different groups' emblems of their commercial textual content if the trademark has been registered with the Advertising Legal Support team.

In March 2010

Google turned into concerned in a hallmark infringement case related to 3 French groups that personal Louis Vuitton emblems.

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What is Google AdWord's approach/strategy?

Google Ads, formerly Google Adwords, lets you put it on the market and sell your services and products whilst customers look for applicable keywords.

If you've got got a very good approach outlined, you'll be capable of delivering your income a very good increase and attaining greater and higher capability clients.

What are the three standards of Google Ads?

The blessings/benefits of Google Ads

All the virtual advertising answers from Google Ads are primarily based totally on 3 crucial standards: relevance, management (control), and effects (results).

To higher recognize its blessings is crucial to recognize the standards:

Relevance: your commercials seem simple whilst a person is seeking out information, a product, or a carrier like yours, and you could personalize components like keywords, audiences, location, and location to get the maximum applicable clients. It was when you attain the proper person, at the proper time, with the proper message.

Control: you could alter your marketing campaign at any time. The platform lets you modify marketing campaign settings, commercials, budget, start, and quit date, or pause and restart a marketing campaign whilst you exchange your marketing campaign approach. You can manage your budget, selecting how tons to spend in step with month, day, or ad.

Results: dimension information makes it smooth to look at how your campaigns and commercials are performing. Smart generation gear can help you create, manage, and optimize your campaigns so that you can get the maximum from your investment. Pay your handiest for effects, like clicks on your internet site or video watched, for example.

What are three marketing and marketing strategies?

What Types of Advertising Strategies Are There?

Content Advertising. This marketing and marketing approach seeks to without delay have an impact on customers thru one-of-a-kind channels, with a right-away and clear message that objectives to attain as many humans as possible.

Pull Advertising.

Push Advertising.

What is Google AdWords in easy words?

Google Ads is Google's online marketing and marketing program.

Through Google Ads, you could create online commercials to attain humans precisely whilst they are interested in the goods and offerings which you offer.

Is Google Ads an advertising approach?

Paid Search Advertising or PPC

This online advertising approach makes use of offerings along with Google Ads to sell companies thru commercials that seem on seek engine effects pages.

Companies pay to have their unique textual content commercials seen each time clients look for a delegated time period on Google.

Which approach is great for marketing and marketing?

Here are a number of the great kinds of marketing and marketing utilized by small companies to sell a product, carrier, or content:

Social Media Advertising.

Pay-Per-Click Advertising.

Mobile Advertising.

Print Advertising.

Broadcast Advertising.

Out-of-Home Advertising.

Direct Mail Advertising.

Target the Right Audience.

Is Google AdWords smooth (easy)?

It is a huge enterprise and if you have not tapped into its capability.

Be warned though: Google AdWords is straightforward, however now no longer smooth.

It takes time to grasp and maximum groups lose cash on it due to the fact they are now no longer affected persons sufficient to get effects from pay-in step with-click on marketing and marketing.

What advantages do Google Ads deliver to you?

More site visitors or traffic for your internet site,

It is nearly on the spot.

When you put up your first advert via Google Ads, you may begin to have greater visits to your internet site.

You can be capable of attaining your audience.

Your advertisements will seem whilst your audience searches for facts.

It is essential to set up an amazing segmentation strategy (key phrases, location, age, language, day, time, etc).

If you pick the proper key phrases you may get admission to individuals who are searching out what you're selling.

Create unique gives.

You can personalize your advertisements with the aid of using showing merchandise, income, and reductions primarily based totally on seeking key phrases.

You get short-time period outcomes.

search engine marketing techniques provide medium/long-time period outcomes.

If what you're searching out is to have on-the-spot visibility, Google Ads gives you this possibility.

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6 Essential recommendations to hold in thoughts whilst developing a Google Ads Strategy

Tip 1# Define your desires and the markets

What outcomes do you need to get?

Without a doubt, that is the primary query you need to ask your self and it's far essential to do an amazing evaluation and recognize what you need to achieve.

The exact information is that because of the variety of Google Ads, you'll be capable of locating techniques for any second of the funnel.

For example, in case you are searching out a reinforcement of your content material strategy, you may use Google Ads with the aid of using getting into key phrases which might be associated with the look for facts.

If on the opposite hand, you need to grow conversions, the key phrases will revolve across the second purchase.

Once you're clear approximately the outcomes you need to achieve, it's time to determine wherein you need the advertisements to be exhibited to attain your audience.

Tip 2# Choose the proper key phrases in your advertisements

Undoubtedly, selecting exact key phrases has an immediate dating on the visibility and destiny fulfillment of your campaigns.

In fact, Google Ads makes its Keyword Planner to be had by you.

With this tool,

you'll be capable of locating the maximum applicable phrases associated with your merchandise or services.

Attaining beneficial facts approximately the frequency with which sure phrases are searched and the way the one's searches extrude through the years and, if that had been now no longer enough, calculate your marketing and marketing price range via bid estimates for every keyword.

In summary, we will deduce that a key-word is applicably contemplating those 3 factors:

Due to its notoriety: Does it generate a good-sized extent of searches?

Price in keeping with click-on (PPC): We ought to be clean approximately our price range and if we will compete with it in phrases of marketing and marketing impact.

User wishes: Each keyword has intentionality, it could be associated with the look for facts or a want to buy. It is essential to hyperlink this person's wishes with the aim of our marketing campaign.

Tip 3# Select the sort of marketing campaign that fits higher your desires

1) Search campaigns: Ideal in your ability for clients to recognize your merchandise or services. In this sort of advertisement you ought to set up a goal (direct site visitors for your internet site, growth income or generate income possibilities) and, in addition, you may simplest pay whilst there's an interaction (PPC - Pay in keeping with click on).

2) Shopping campaigns: Show your merchandise in the most important online marketplace. You will simplest pay whilst shoppers click on to visit your internet site or once they see nearby inventory.

3) Display campaigns: Advertise at the Google Display Network and sell your enterprise on Google information pages, blogs, and websites like Gmail or YouTube.

4) Video campaigns: Get your ability clients on YouTube. You will simplest pay whilst a person sees certainly considered one among your advertisements for at least 30 seconds, sees it in its entirety, or interacts with it, for example, in the event that they click on the name to action, on a card, or on a complimentary banner.

5) Universal App Campaigns (UAC): If you need to sell your app for iOS or Android in Google Search, YouTube, Google Play, etc ... appearance do no further, app campaigns are made for you. Once again, it's far very essential that you outline your goal: get downloads or direct customers to an app event. inspire person interaction. It is essential that you make an amazing choice of pics or when you have a video of the app to seize the eye of customers.

Tip 4# Create advertisements that make a difference

If you need your investments in Google Ads to be successful, you ought to create advertisements that generate interest, entice and at the identical time flawlessly give an explanation for your price proposition.

How are you able to get it?

Putting yourself withinside the footwear of the person and what they assume to locate of their searches and accomplice them with the answers you provide together along with your emblem to ask them to buy, fill out a shape or the goal which you have formerly set for yourself.

It is essential that you recognize the extensive sort of codecs and ratios that Google makes to be had to you.

Tip 5# Link Search Console with Google Ads

You may have gotten admission to the information with the intention to assist you to recognize the connection between natural searches and your Google Ads campaigns and the way you're attaining customers who seek online.

Tip 6# Permanently examine and optimize your campaigns in Google Ads

Once the put-up button is pressed, it's far very essential that you examine the outcomes and make modifications to enhance the optimization of your campaigns.

Control how the price range is being invested, examine which key phrases are acting higher, the advert agencies with the pleasant performance, and the conversion rate ... and put together to make choices to fine-track your ROI.

In fact, Google Ads gives you the Performance Planner with which you may: get admission to the forecasts of your campaigns, pick out new possibilities with the aid of using duration, and control budgets for exceptional bills and campaigns.

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How To Speak To AOL Customer Service?

AOL is a web portal, and you can create an account on AOL to send and receive emails and use other internet services. There are several users worldwide that use AOL webmail to drop and receive emails. Though many users complain about various issues, they come across using its services. Suppose you already have an account on AOL and are running out of mailbox storage; then you can contact AOL customer service and get the required assistance to upgrade your storage and revive the account.

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Does AOL have a live chat? In case it is an urgent query or there is a shortage of time to go through the call process, just use the live chat window of AOL and get immediate assistance on the issues. To start a live chat with AOL Customer Service and discuss the queries through texts, do the following: Go to the official website of aol.com Click on the support options A chat window will open on the screen Write the messages on the chat window Send them to the customer service Your queries will receive instant replies from the chat representative.

Can you send an email to AOL? You can write the queries and send them to AOL customer service in an email. To get into email communication, you can first fill out an email form in the manner mentioned below: Reach the AOL web portal Click on the support tab Choose the email us option Fill out the email form with compulsory information, including your email id Submit the form. An email will be received within a few days from AOL customer service for further correspondence.

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AOL CLAIMS CALIFORNIA MAN CLOGGED ITS E-MAIL SYSTEM: AOL sued a 21-year-old Southern California man, claiming that he sent millions of unwanted email messages to AOL customers.

AOL Is Sued Over Privacy Breach - Los Angeles Times: Another lawsuit was filed against AOL over a privacy breach. The lawsuit sought class-action status but did not specify the amount of damages being sought.

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Overall, AOL VPN offers a comprehensive suite of features designed to enhance online privacy, security, and freedom. With its strong encryption, anonymous browsing capabilities, and access to restricted content, AOL VPN is a valuable tool for anyone looking to safeguard their online activities.

AOL VPN functionality

AOL VPN functionality enables users to enhance their online security and privacy while browsing the internet. VPN stands for Virtual Private Network, which creates a secure connection between the user's device and the internet. By using an AOL VPN, users can protect their sensitive data, such as passwords, personal information, and browsing history, from potential cyber threats and hackers.

One of the key features of AOL VPN functionality is the ability to encrypt the user's internet traffic. This encryption helps in preventing third parties from intercepting the data transmitted between the user's device and the websites they visit. As a result, users can browse the internet anonymously without worrying about their online activities being tracked or monitored.

Moreover, AOL VPN functionality allows users to access geo-restricted content easily. By connecting to a VPN server located in a different country, users can bypass censorship and access websites and streaming services that may be blocked in their region. This feature is particularly beneficial for users who want to watch their favorite shows or access online content not available in their country.

Additionally, by using an AOL VPN, users can maintain their anonymity online. VPNs hide the user's IP address, making it difficult for websites and online services to track their location or identify them. This increased privacy can help users avoid targeted advertisements and tracking cookies, leading to a more seamless and secure browsing experience.

In conclusion, AOL VPN functionality provides users with essential tools to safeguard their online activities, access restricted content, and maintain their privacy and anonymity while browsing the internet. By utilizing an AOL VPN, users can enjoy a more secure and unrestricted online experience.

AOL VPN compatibility

Title: Enhancing Your Online Security: AOL VPN Compatibility Explained

In an era where online privacy and security are paramount, many internet users are turning to virtual private networks (VPNs) to safeguard their digital activities. AOL, a longstanding player in the internet world, has garnered attention for its compatibility with VPN services. Let's delve into the details of AOL VPN compatibility and why it matters for your online experience.

First and foremost, it's crucial to understand what a VPN does. Essentially, a VPN encrypts your internet connection, shielding your online activities from prying eyes such as hackers, government agencies, or even your internet service provider (ISP). By routing your connection through secure servers located around the world, a VPN masks your IP address and provides anonymity online.

Now, let's talk about AOL's compatibility with VPNs. AOL, known for its email and internet services, works seamlessly with most VPN providers. Whether you're using AOL Mail, browsing the web, or accessing AOL's other services, you can enhance your security by connecting to a VPN.

One of the primary benefits of using a VPN with AOL is the added layer of security it offers. Whether you're accessing your AOL account from a public Wi-Fi hotspot or simply want to browse the web anonymously, a VPN ensures that your data remains private and protected.

Furthermore, AOL VPN compatibility extends to various devices and platforms, including desktop computers, laptops, smartphones, and tablets. Whether you're using Windows, macOS, Android, or iOS, you can easily configure your device to connect to a VPN and enjoy enhanced security while using AOL services.

In conclusion, AOL VPN compatibility is an essential consideration for anyone concerned about their online privacy and security. By using a VPN with AOL, you can safeguard your digital activities and enjoy a more secure browsing experience, whether you're checking your email, surfing the web, or accessing other online services.

AOL VPN privacy settings

If you're using an AOL VPN, it's important to understand how to adjust your privacy settings to ensure your online activities remain secure and private.

One of the key aspects of protecting your privacy while using a VPN is to ensure that your connection is encrypted. This means that all of the data you send and receive over the internet is scrambled, making it virtually impossible for anyone to intercept and decipher your information.

When using an AOL VPN, you can typically adjust your privacy settings to choose the level of encryption that best suits your needs. Some VPNs offer different encryption protocols, such as OpenVPN or L2TP/IPsec, each with its own level of security and speed.

Additionally, you may also have the option to enable features like a kill switch, which automatically disconnects your internet connection if the VPN becomes compromised. This helps to prevent any data leaks in case the VPN connection drops unexpectedly.

Furthermore, you can often configure your VPN to route your internet traffic through servers in different locations around the world. This can help to mask your actual IP address and location, enhancing your online privacy and anonymity.

Overall, by understanding and adjusting your AOL VPN privacy settings, you can take significant steps towards safeguarding your online activities and personal data from prying eyes. Stay aware of the available options and choose the settings that best align with your privacy and security preferences.

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