That was one of the first things I noticed. You can disable it in general settings but unfortunately it is all or nothing. Now I can only pull it up from the lock screen.
Ah I see.. I misunderstood the first time around. I thought you meant to store the user table in a flat file. Thank you for the explanation. That reminds me, I need to convert to Innodb one of these days.
Perhaps a better approach would be to add a "preload" button, and then use the hidden element as you suggested so we aren't loading audio we aren't interested in.
Another idea would be to add a personal user queue to do the same thing. Awesome site btw.
On the advertising side, I don't think it matters what the sharing settings are. We have been targeting on very specific parameters with quite a large reach for a while now.
That's an interesting idea, but I would be nervous logging in to services in public as someone could be watching. Or even worse a store employee could watch the tape and figure out the movements. Although, I am probably just being paranoid.