Sylos

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by Sylos 8y ago
Chromium is not a de-Googled Chrome. This is: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium Well, it's trying to be. It's still millions of lines of code and tens of thousands of design decisions made by Goog
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by Sylos 8y ago
It is actually exposed, since a few versions ago. It's in the Preferences under General -> Tabs -> "Ctrl+Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order". Right in the middle of the screen, when you open the Preferences-
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by Sylos 8y ago
> I know everyone has there own work flows, but how can you even keep track of that many tabs? You don't. You just push new tabs onto the stack. When you're done with a topic, you start popping those tabs until you're back
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by Sylos 8y ago
It will never be ported fully. It's one of those extensions that dived so deep into Firefox's source code that Mozilla changing things in the source code caused it to break a lot of the times. Mozilla categorically doesn't wa
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by Sylos 8y ago
As kibwen has commented, in Mozilla's official statement (which is legally binding), they say that they don't collect anything, so yeah.
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by Sylos 8y ago
> Google doesn't take human phone calls so why should anyone else have to? Google lost a lawsuit two weeks ago in Germany, which was about whether or not a human being would have to be reachable through a contact e-mail address that
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by Sylos 8y ago
That's probably my favorite part about being a tech person. When non-techies ask you what JavaScript in Excel is useful for, and you can respond in the dryest of ways "Primarily malware". And then they look at you like "
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by Sylos 8y ago
So, can I replace these or are they embedded-embedded? The Google Assistant seems to have custom code, so it would be understandable, if I can't replace that, but then it's hopefully at least possible to turn it off. If not, I&#x2
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by Sylos 8y ago
And you physically cannot get a piano tuned perfectly, since with different intervals, you'd need individual notes to be tuned slightly different. With a guitar, you can at least still try to correct it by putting your finger down some
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by Sylos 8y ago
It's only enabled by default in Private Browsing. And it doesn't actively block cookies (they obviously do get cleared at the end of your Private Browsing session, though).
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by Sylos 8y ago
How can they actively bring a loss, though? Does the power and bandwidth needed to have the server serve Firefox users cost more than Firefox users bring in over all?
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by Sylos 8y ago
If it's any sort of bigger service, competing services will implement their special format. If they frequently change this format to break those implementations or clearly make it much more complex than it needs to be, that can also ha
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by Sylos 8y ago
When you use Chrome Sync, Google gathers and evaluates your entire browsing history. You can forego it by enabling end-to-end-encryption, but since they require a second password for that, the percentage of Chrome Sync users who use this, i
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by Sylos 8y ago
Even with that in mind, blocking it on all sites with those few whitelisted would be simpler and more predictable.
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by Sylos 8y ago
Well, it's not only relevant to marketers. Your two most innocent examples are not the only type of information that's going to slip in there. And even with those two examples, you just have to be creative to find ways for them to
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by Sylos 8y ago
No, tracking is unethical, which most ads rely on. And yes, it is for their own good to not have thousands of databases with their data littered across the internet. I know, this is not a very American way of thinking, but no one can be an
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by Sylos 8y ago
In the EU, the GDPR will make data takeout APIs (or some guy exporting as CSV and mailing it to you) mandatory.
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by Sylos 8y ago
Haven't used either, but people typically say that Qt's API is cleaner, that it's better suited for cross-platform applications (for example it has support for Android) and that it's more flexible (for example LXDE is be
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by Sylos 8y ago
Could've at least tried to not be misleading and spelt out "Adblock Plus".
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by Sylos 8y ago
He did not say that an alternative would be more profitable. What he meant is that right now, because targeted ads exist, non-targeted ads sell far worse. Once targeted ads are not an option anymore, non-targeted ads will get more attention
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by Sylos 8y ago
It is true. Article 3.2 reads: This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union by a controller or processor not established in the Union, where the processing activities are related to: - the
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by Sylos 8y ago
Since there are legitimate use-cases where you need to be able to somehow identify requests coming from the same IP (protection against DDoS), you would be allowed to do it, given that you take reasonable steps to protect the user (such as
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by Sylos 8y ago
This is probably going to happen, yeah. It will however likely also establish European companies as particularly secure and trustworthy. For a long time already, it's been common practice to avoid Chinese services, because of the surve
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by Sylos 8y ago
No, that's what article 3.2 means: This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union by a controller or processor not established in the Union, where the processing activities are related
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by Sylos 8y ago
Those ad impressions only happen when the ads are loaded from Google's server. If routing to all Google servers gets blocked, those ads won't load anymore either. Then webpage owners won't make money anymore off of having Goo
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by Sylos 8y ago
And I think, you're not entirely honest about your work. More often than we'd like, we do just type in multiple variations of the same boilerplate code. It's the unglorious part of our work, the part that we're paid far
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by Sylos 8y ago
Because their country of residence only has a limited interest in protecting them at the cost of the country's relationship with the EU. Especially if the EU ruling is credible. Also, the EU might block them from the market completely.
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by Sylos 8y ago
It's not just due to wanting to function on a remote terminal. You also have your hands on your keyboard while typing, so taking them off from there to your mouse and back to your keys will almost always cost you more time than doing i
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by Sylos 8y ago
You don't need Cookies. Your browser requests it from Google's server, which gives them your IP address. And your browser sends what webpage you're currently on as part of the HTTP referrer. So, if every webpage you visit loa
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by Sylos 8y ago
He's referring to ads. They sold ad time to Trump during his political campaign. Clinton and Obama als bought ads there, but the controversy is primarily about Trump.

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