Paper Airplane Designs

Re:Paper Airplane Designs by Endy on Thursday October 18, 2018 @06:49PM (#18252894)

My only problem with this website is that when I used it with a class of students, there were pornographic advertisements in between the plane types. That was really upsetting. Please reconsider your ads.

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Re:Paper Airplane Designs by offsky on Thursday October 18, 2018 @07:54PM (#18253345)

That is very odd and not what I want. It’s just google Adsense. You sure your computer doesn’t have spyware?

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Re:Paper Airplane Designs by offsky on Thursday October 18, 2018 @08:16PM (#18253431)

So, I just discovered that Adsense has an option to block ads that have "Significant Skin Exposure" so I turned this on a few mins ago.

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Re:Paper Airplane Designs by Endy on Thursday October 18, 2018 @08:44PM (#18253548)

Thank you! Now I can go back to suggesting this to all the physics teachers in the schools where I teach! Oh and regarding malware, we'd gotten the Chromebooks, brand new, from Dell, a week before.

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Re:Paper Airplane Designs by taftster on Thursday October 18, 2018 @09:09PM (#18253628)

I mean, I know this is probably not in your control and all (and I know I'm off-topic). But wouldn't an adblocker be appropriate for your school environment? I most definitely wouldn't want my kids to see any ads, but obviously and especially those with "significant skin exposure".

I applaud you for not recommending this site in the first take. But it seems like you should have more support, adblockers being the first line of defense.

Thank you for teaching, by the way. I feel teachers need the same thanks that we so commonly give soldiers and first responders. You are truly on the front line, and we all appreciate you.

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Re:Paper Airplane Designs by rhizome on Friday October 19, 2018 @02:31AM (#18254606)

But wouldn't an adblocker be appropriate for your school environment?

Maybe, but in general that boat sailed in 1989: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_One_News

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Re:Paper Airplane Designs by pbhjpbhj on Friday October 19, 2018 @09:03AM (#18256405)

Ad-blockers from the point of view of UK copyright would seem to be tortuous copyright infringement (unauthorised modification and/or unauthorised creation ofa derivative). I can't see schools here using them because of the legal risk.

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Re:Paper Airplane Designs by taftster on Friday October 19, 2018 @11:34AM (#18257422)

So you're saying, adblockers in the UK are illegal due to copyright concerns? I don't think that holds. If I buy a magazine and rip the ads from it, that's perfectly fine. This logic even holds in a school setting.

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Re:Paper Airplane Designs by pbhjpbhj on Friday October 19, 2018 @02:38PM (#18258914)

Actually, it doesn't - you can't take the ads out (eg a clipping service) in any commercial setting. Using a tool that you put your newspaper in that removed all ads would be creating a tortuous derivative too. There's no general personal exemptions in UKCDA either.

Chances of being prosecuted for use are roughly zero.

Lawful educational use is highly restricted in the UK, but there are few prosecutions. For example if you show TV broadcasts you have to have both music licenses (as well as the TV license) to cover you for when they play music on the show (or in the adverts!).

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Re:Paper Airplane Designs by taftster on Friday October 19, 2018 @07:05PM (#18260716)

Thanks for the reply. Very interesting stuff.

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Re:Paper Airplane Designs by pbhjpbhj on Friday October 19, 2018 @09:04AM (#18256409)

How do you feel about suggestions that people should ad-block your site?

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Re:Paper Airplane Designs by sanityinc on Saturday October 20, 2018 @08:39PM (#18266237)

You can control which categories of ads will be displayed in your Adsense account settings. It shouldn't be necessary in a civilised world, of course, but there you go.

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Re:Paper Airplane Designs by langfo on Friday October 19, 2018 @02:28AM (#18254593)

I would strongly recommend an ad blocker or use a browser such as Brave which by default blocks ads and other nasties

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Re:Paper Airplane Designs by Endy on Saturday October 20, 2018 @02:42AM (#18262100)

Honest question: How would I do that when I'm on a rather locked-down school Chromebook?

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Re:Paper Airplane Designs by profalseidol on Thursday October 18, 2018 @06:56PM (#18252943)

Best to use Brave as your browser. Or even Opera. Both has built-in ad blocker.

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Re:Paper Airplane Designs by langfo on Friday October 19, 2018 @02:30AM (#18254597)

Agree, sorry only saw your response after I posted mine. I don't know how I missed seeing it

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Re:Paper Airplane Designs by Endy on Thursday October 18, 2018 @07:52PM (#18253328)

Couldn't do that when I was using the school Chromebook.

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Re:Paper Airplane Designs by thrower123 on Saturday October 20, 2018 @02:47AM (#18262115)

The school doesn't have some kind of filtering proxy setup? A decade and a half ago I was having to end-run Bess to get to the Sun Javadocs - blocked for "hacking." Useful education, but it made studying for the AP comp sci test difficult...

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