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It’s absolutely true. It is a documented fact. It was discovered and entered into public record during the DOJ antitrust investigation into Google Chrome. They

by FabCH 3mo ago

It’s absolutely true. It is a documented fact. It was discovered and entered into public record during the DOJ antitrust investigation into Google Chrome. They call the signal „popularity“ and it is a successor of the Google Toolbar signal. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-wins-significant-remedies-against-google https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-wins-signi...

NuclearPM 3mo ago
> „popularity“ Why are you using weird quotes?
- evilduck 3mo ago
  I'll take a wild guess and assume they are of a German or Polish language background. Wait 'til you encounter a French person who accidentally uses guillemets if you want one even «weirder».
  - robin_reala 3mo ago
    Or the Nordics ”like this” or the UK ‘like this’ or Japan 「like this」. Basically every country has their own standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Summary_table https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Summary_table
    - keane 3mo ago
      This is why the <q> element exists which enables locale-aware quotation marks: https://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/questions/qa-the-q-element.en https://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/questions/qa-the-q-element... :root:lang(en) { quotes: '“' '”' '‘' '’' } :root:lang(fr) { quotes: '«' '»' '«' '»' } :root:lang(fr-CA) { quotes: '«' '»' '‹' '›' } q:before { content: open-quote; } q:after { content: close-quote; } There's currently 26 quotation mark varieties by default (in Firefox): https://searchfox.org/firefox-main/source/intl/locale/cldr-quotes.inc https://searchfox.org/firefox-main/source/intl/locale/cldr-q... which are sourced from the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository: https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/tree/main/common/main https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/tree/main/common/main
  - FabCH 3mo ago
    Correct. Swiss German keyboard.
    - NuclearPM 3mo ago
      Thanks!
- bigbossg72 3mo ago
  No
fuglede_ 3mo ago
So why is this not the largest GDPR case in all of history?

by FabCH 3mo ago

NuclearPM 3mo ago

> „popularity“ Why are you using weird quotes?

evilduck 3mo ago
I'll take a wild guess and assume they are of a German or Polish language background. Wait 'til you encounter a French person who accidentally uses guillemets if you want one even «weirder».
- robin_reala 3mo ago
  Or the Nordics ”like this” or the UK ‘like this’ or Japan 「like this」. Basically every country has their own standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Summary_table https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Summary_table
  - keane 3mo ago
    This is why the <q> element exists which enables locale-aware quotation marks: https://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/questions/qa-the-q-element.en https://w3c.github.io/i18n-drafts/questions/qa-the-q-element... :root:lang(en) { quotes: '“' '”' '‘' '’' } :root:lang(fr) { quotes: '«' '»' '«' '»' } :root:lang(fr-CA) { quotes: '«' '»' '‹' '›' } q:before { content: open-quote; } q:after { content: close-quote; } There's currently 26 quotation mark varieties by default (in Firefox): https://searchfox.org/firefox-main/source/intl/locale/cldr-quotes.inc https://searchfox.org/firefox-main/source/intl/locale/cldr-q... which are sourced from the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository: https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/tree/main/common/main https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/tree/main/common/main
- FabCH 3mo ago
  Correct. Swiss German keyboard.
  - NuclearPM 3mo ago
    Thanks!
bigbossg72 3mo ago
No

fuglede_ 3mo ago

So why is this not the largest GDPR case in all of history?