Innovations of 2018

The content payload of that article can be expressed in maybe a few k for the text and then a few more hundred kB for the images. What have we done?!

I got android popups from the article asking if Firefox could have permission for my audio and video.

Now I wonder if you say yes to those once in your mobile browser if ad tech can use those permissions on any site to record you

And a poor one at that. I don't know about most of the products they describe, but for the Nvidia 2080:

> but watch the explosions bounce off the eyeballs of the characters and it’ll obvious that this is a new era for PC gaming.

Seriously? Followed by a "Buy Now" button, of course. Probably an affiliate link, too.

Yawn.

I think you and 'ekianjo must have scrolled directly to "Entertainment" section and stayed there. Elsewhere, between space probes, military interceptors and radars, medicine (including IoT medicine; who thought it was a good idea?!) and glass floors on high towers, this article isn't very much about consumer culture.

(Unless you want to say that all those other things are just meant to create a stronger desire in visitors to buy the few things they can buy on this list; given my cynical view of advertising industry, I could believe in that.)

the great firewall of europe.