Sylos

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by Sylos 9y ago
Politics ideally try to generate the highest sum of wealth and well-being across all citizens. Having healthy corporations is nice, because it means your citizens have work, get paid etc., but it's not a goal unto itself. If those corp
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by Sylos 9y ago
There are many consumer-oriented Linux distributions that do not track the user. I'm also pretty sure that Ubuntu does not. You might be thinking of the so-called "Search Lenses", which sent your search terms from the system
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by Sylos 9y ago
I notice that with Minetest, which is essentially an open-source Minecraft clone. I can go from desktop to walking around ingame in about 3 seconds (and my system is not actually particularly powerful). As a result, it's sort of become
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by Sylos 9y ago
Which is a relatively arbitrary criteria to be so categorical about. No, I don't like it either to have eastereggs in my software that wasn't just put there for the fun of it, and rather was also motivated to some degree by a cont
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by Sylos 9y ago
Well, yeah, the feature itself is not a particular accomplishment, really it's been in Firefox for years, you just had to enable it with some about:config-flag. The big news is them enabling it by default in some fashion (that is when
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by Sylos 9y ago
Webpage owners need a way to make money. A whole class of webpages, those that are financed by ad revenue, would stop being tested/built against Firefox. They might even block Firefox users from accessing their webpage, so that people
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by Sylos 9y ago
1) It breaks some webpages, so they probably only want to have it where it's relatively clear that users will prefer their privacy over not having breakages. 2) It pisses off webpage owners, as it hampers their analytics and probably a
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by Sylos 9y ago
> A backwards compatibility switch to override the change would have been the least. They changed so much in the code base which broke compatibility with the old system that they would have pretty much had to do a hard fork and include b
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by Sylos 9y ago
Well, the same was true for the so heftily discussed Looking Glass extension. It did not do anything, unless you manually switched on an about:config value. And if you did, then all it did, was flip some random words on webpages upside down
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by Sylos 9y ago
No idea, if the OS design plays into this or if it's just a application design convention, but on desktop Linux how it often works (for example with KDE programs) is that if a program has a file open which was moved (including moved to
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by Sylos 9y ago
It's much easier to hide the flipping of one about:config value in your code than it is to hide a full-fledged spyware suite. Same for OS-level malware, which can only do so much suspicious things before it's noticed by antivirus
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by Sylos 9y ago
Well, at least two of the sites that you mention are Google property, so it's not certain that Firefox is at fault there, just because it works better in Chrome.
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by Sylos 9y ago
People say that Firefox did the hard work, because back then the web was just entirely built for IE. It was much harder to steal market share from IE at that point, because the web that you were able to display, if you were not IE, was just
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by Sylos 9y ago
Have you tried the userChrome.css edits that the author lists on the add-on page? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/favtab/
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by Sylos 9y ago
The config bit for allowing unsigned extensions was temporary from the start. They did not later redecide that they wanted to remove it, they knew from the beginning that it did not offer the security that they wanted to achieve. Because an
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by Sylos 9y ago
Well, you'll notice soon enough, if it does get shipped. So many webpages cause that prompt to pop up, it's kind of ridiculous. Frankly might be a reason for them to hold off on shipping it, it's not user-friendly at all to g
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by Sylos 9y ago
Tracking Protection uses the blocklist provided by disconnect.me. I haven't yet had time to look into DDG's Privacy Essentials, so can't comment on that. But Privacy Badger functions by having a more limited list out of the b
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by Sylos 9y ago
Paper detailling the "as much as 40%" figure that Asa Dotzler mentioned: http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SPW2015/W2SP/papers/W2SP_201...
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by Sylos 9y ago
Do you remember when you asked that, roughly? The DevEdition used to just be a dub for Aurora, a.k.a. the Alpha channel. And from that viewpoint it does sort of makes sense to enforce telemetry, as that's the whole point of providing B
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by Sylos 9y ago
A widget that users could place on the homescreen of their launcher. It had a shortcut to open Firefox itself, one to open a new tab and one to a lightweight search interface.
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by Sylos 9y ago
The Wikipedia-Article describes it aptly: "Mensch ärgere Dich nicht is a German board game (but not a German-style board game)". And the name translates to "Don't get angry, man", so the game creator was quite self-
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by Sylos 9y ago
More questions somewhat in this same vein: Can you take your family with you? What happens, if your 5-year-old grabs his favorite sweet and brings it up to you to ask you whether he can have it? Can you put things back into the shelves?
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by Sylos 9y ago
I'm pretty sure this kind of use of surveillance cameras/data wouldn't be legal in the EU, so that's why you might see lots of people who are more enraged by this than they supposedly should be... You're allowed to
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by Sylos 9y ago
I don't know what else you'd want to call it. It does use surveillance technology and does invade privacy a lot more than normal convenience stores. Not using the word "surveillance" here would in my opinion be more bias
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by Sylos 9y ago
> maybe opensuse, I did not try that Yes, openSUSE, you should try that. openSUSE has a massive test suite, called openQA, with which they automatically test their builds. And among other things, they also maintain two builds with the la
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by Sylos 9y ago
Not even adware or an ad in the state it was rolled out either, as it did nothing, except checking for an about:config-flag. If you manually enabled this flag, then it would have flipped around a few words.
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by Sylos 9y ago
In this case, I don't. I previously chose KMail over Thunderbird, solely because Thunderbird's UI felt too massive and cluttered to me.
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by Sylos 9y ago
Not reliably, as only power users will ever even consider opting into telemetry (or changing pretty much any setting for that matter). And power users generally have a much clearer layout of the tabs in their mind and will always go straigh
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by Sylos 9y ago
In that case, the answer to your question is that there is no answer, that there can never be an answer (unless God tells us) and that there does not need to be an answer. If God really made it so that it's impossible to tell that they
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Also helps that the remaining article isn't just filler-text to hide that one actually interesting fact under and instead consists of interesting facts in every sentence.

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