Streaming

CNN+ Streaming Service Will Shut Down At End of April

CNN+, the streaming service you probably never heard of, is going to shut down at the end of April 2022. I’m not certain what content it provided, but that doesn’t matter anymore. CNN reported that CNN+, the streaming service that…

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JenThorpe
Privacy

Brave Browser Is Rolling Out a De-AMP Feature To Enhance Privacy

Brave announced that they are rolling out a new feature called De-AMP, which allows brave users to bypass Google-hosted AMP pages, and instead visit the content’s publisher directly. Brave states that AMP harms users’ privacy, security, and internet experience, and…

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JenThorpe
Netflix
Netflix Is Having Financial Problems

Netflix Is Having Financial Problems

Netflix reported a loss of 200,000 subscribers during the first quarter – its first decline in paid users in more than a decade – and warned of deepening trouble ahead, CNBC reported. According to CNBC, Netflix’s shares cratered more than…

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JenThorpe
search

DuckDuckGo Did Not Purge Websites

TorrentFreak reported that sites like The Pirate Bay,1337x, and Fmovies no longer appear when searched on DuckDuckGo’s search engine. According to TorrentFreak, several YouTube ripping services have disappeared, and the homepage of the open-source software YouTube-mp3 is “unfindable”. Gabriel Weinberg, CEO…

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JenThorpe
Twitter

Twitter Board Adopts Limited Shareholder Rights Plan

Following Elon Musk’s offer to buy Twitter and make it a private company, Twitter’s Board of Directors enacted what has been referred to as a “poison pill”. It is my understanding that this decision is something the Board is allowed…

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JenThorpe
Podcast

Elon Musk Twitter Acquisition Deemed Hostile #1598

In late reporting, the Twitter board has deemed Elon Musk's offer to buy Twitter as unwelcome signaling that things are about to get ugly and that Musk may have to go to war if he really wants twitter. The simple fact that the board is looking at rejecting his offer shows things are about to get ugly.

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Todd Cochrane
Podcast