03-17-2012, 04:31 PM | #16 |
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The Merriam-Webster app tracks the words you look up and bases ads on them. /*rolls eyes */
I am now using "The Free Dictionary" by Farlex, which I like much better. It has an offline mode (downloads the dictionary to your device). |
03-19-2012, 08:28 AM | #17 |
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You know, while I'm not opposed to the idea of targeted ad-ware--I'll let the sponsors pay for the stuff rather than me, and if I'm going to see ads, they might as well be relevant ads-- I doubt the words I look up in a dictionary would give any sort clue as to ads I'd want to see. For example, if I look up a word from a book I'm reading, it's likely because I have NO interest in the topic, and that's why I haven't seen the word before.
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03-19-2012, 01:01 PM | #18 |
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I've got the paid version of the Merriam-Webster dictionary so I'm not bothered by ads with it, but I find that the apps I've got with ads are just as annoying when the ads are totally random as when they are targeted. The only difference is that I don't care to be tracked. But let us be honest, on the internet you will be tracked like it or not. I look at items on eBay and Amazon, just to name a couple of sites, then pull up CNN.com, Facebook, or any number of other sites and I see ads based on the items I was looking at. It is going to happen whether in an app or surfing the internet in a browser via your desktop computer. It might be annoying, but it certainly is no reason to turn my nose up at a perfectly good app like the Merriam-Webster dictionary. I'm old school and very well educated, so I personally prefer dictionaries produced by scholarly people rather than freeware dictionaries with a questionable heritage.
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03-22-2012, 09:43 AM | #20 | |
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Convoluted - yes
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I'm still looking for a Bible Dictionary which works as fast and simple as the Tecarta Bibles. |
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