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by 3gg 5y ago
Their petty war for how to exploit people online is pathetic to watch. The more general fight for privacy _is not_ inconsequential. It would indeed be mistaken to think that these corporations are the ones carrying the privacy fight. That i
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by 3gg 5y ago
It's not just search advertising, that was in the early 2000s. Their business now is to profile you anywhere, anytime. That's why they bought Youtube, Android, Fitbit, and the reason for their every move.
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by 3gg 5y ago
In regards to your third paragraph, to me none of that matters. Mass surveillance on the Web is wrong, period. Meanwhile, all parties involved in this drama, except for non-profits like the EFF, are instead debating how people ("users&
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by 3gg 5y ago
Sorry, I did not mean that literally. Point is Rosewell wants to preserve the status quo for his own personal benefit and, unsurprisingly, any kind of legislation that attempts to constrain his greed appears to him as an inconvenience.
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by 3gg 5y ago
Wait, what ways did we have to combat the likes of Rosewell? I agree the old, 90s Web was much better overall than what we have today. But its openness and diversity seems to have been a temporary illusion; it was only a matter of time for
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by 3gg 5y ago
I thought Korean soap operas were good until I read this article. What a whole bunch of unnecessary drama. The W3C always appeared to be one of the most dysfunctional entities in existence, and now the article leaves no question as to why.
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by 3gg 5y ago
This looks really interesting, thank you for sharing. Has this received any kind of formal security audit? How does it fare against Signal?
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by 3gg 5y ago
But hey, it got published in a journal!
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by 3gg 5y ago
I like that dramatic ending, "Apple Won't Save Us." The Lord has left the chat room.
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by 3gg 5y ago
Said no fascist ever.
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by 3gg 5y ago
Very educational and well-written, thank you.
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by 3gg 5y ago
Mozilla is a member of the W3C, and as long as it has a substantial share (and good leadership), it can influence things. Our job is to be that share. Also, there is no such thing as an "ungoogled chromium". Google controls chrome
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by 3gg 5y ago
You're focusing on technicalities, but the real issue is political/social in my opinion. If Firefox did not exist, what other powers exist to prevent Google from shaping the Web for its own benefit more than it already has? I pers
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by 3gg 5y ago
It could not be more convenient.
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by 3gg 5y ago
Why not use a different music player and maybe also write about problems that actually matter? This is quite honestly a very silly post to write, let alone to actively advertise.
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by 3gg 5y ago
Don't know about your specific claims, but I also had the same reaction. "This is the world SpaceX’s Starlink program, which has set a goal to provide high-speed broadband internet to locations where access has been unreliable, ex
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by 3gg 6y ago
It always intrigued me: why is it somebody else's job to secure a company's website? This is completely backwards. Rather than investing into security, they let somebody else fix the problems while leaving their users exposed. At
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by 3gg 6y ago
You are right, but I was legitimately curious. At the very least, they have the choice of not working in that particular role/company. Further down the article they mention their colleagues had studied journalism and raised some eyebro
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by 3gg 6y ago
> At the time, I was a tech worker at ByteDance, where I helped develop tools and platforms for content moderation. In other words, I had helped build the system that censored accounts like mine. What do you mean "in other words&quo
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by 3gg 6y ago
We will never know.
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by 3gg 6y ago
Most commercial Websites today are shamefully-engineered pieces of complete and utter garbage, even with Ad blockers on. I have resorted to using no-script and whitelisting specific sites manually. In the old days, games and cool graphics w
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by 3gg 6y ago
- Nearly everyone on the planet has a mobile computer connected to a broadband connection. Are you sure about that? https://en.unesco.org/news/new-report-global-broadband-acces...
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by 3gg 6y ago
Do not miss the Facebook articles linked from the page. "We disagree: personalization doesn’t have to come at the expense of privacy. We can do both, and we can do both well. We’ve built products that lead the industry in transparency
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by 3gg 6y ago
That was the first thing that came to mind when I read this article. It looks very similar, though Firefox seems to be addressing more than just resource caching, like addressing the HSTS tracking scheme. Also, I would not be surprised if C
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by 3gg 6y ago
tl;dr Your browser is getting slower because some repulsive companies just can't keep it to themselves. The level of sophistication is far from trivial, linked from the article: https://webkit.org/blog/8146/pr
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by 3gg 6y ago
A nonsense FUD article. Bad actors will always find some way to communicate, and the intelligence failed even when they were doing so openly on mainstream networks. Go crack that nut first before breaking everybody's encryption, the co
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by 3gg 6y ago
A true cornerstone in the development of Web 3.0.
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by 3gg 6y ago
It's a non-profit, runs on donations. I use it, I like it, I pay for it, you could too. Also, as far as I can tell, the whole system is free/libre software, so the scalability question doesn't really apply here. "Scalabi
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by 3gg 6y ago
I have upvoted to counter a downvote. I think your opinion would not be downvoted as much if you simply stated your thought without labelling others. Personally, I don't believe (though I have no evidence in this regard) there was any
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by 3gg 6y ago
Shouting works better than conversing to keep users "engaged" and target them with ads.

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