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Is Germany on the brink of banning ad blockers?(blog.mozilla.org)
139 points by Vinnl 1y ago|140 comments
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by Vinnl 1y ago
> Telesign, a company that advertises fraud-prevention services for businesses, offers a simple form for “Data Deletion” and “Opt Out / Do Not Sell”. But that form is hidden from search engines and other automated systems, and isn’t
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by Vinnl 1y ago
In fact, NGI is funded by the EU - NLNet just happens to be the org doing the handing-out.
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by Vinnl 1y ago
That sounds like contacting your MEPs could at least be worth it. Usually when it comes to things like this, the parties that I'd consider voting for already vote the way I'd like them to do. (In this case it's even better
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by Vinnl 1y ago
In my experience teachers are overworked because they care if quality suffers. They can get their work done in the set time if they just don't care for the students as much. (Very anecdotal, local-to-the-Netherlands experience, of cour
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by Vinnl 1y ago
I'm from the post-calculator era, and those examples are definitely not problematic for me or even a single one of my peers. So apparently calculators don't automatically lead to that skill atrophying.
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by Vinnl 1y ago
Did you tell him to stop trying to make fetcher happen?
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by Vinnl 1y ago
Where I'm from, people often own a car for their commute to work, and rent a van when they're moving. Their regular car is way less of a hassle for other people than the van is, but that's okay, cause the van is just for a fe
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by Vinnl 1y ago
I like drinking while I'm doing it, and not after I've done it, but exercise is the other way around. (OK only some exercise, and usually I already like it while I'm doing it, I just don't want to go out to do it.)
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by Vinnl 1y ago
I couldn't resist and just spent my limited attention on the article, and you're good. It's just some guy saying: "if you want to get promoted, put in the hours, but it will come at the cost of your kid feeling they need
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by Vinnl 1y ago
I agree, which is why I also said: > They're worth paying attention to
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by Vinnl 1y ago
Yeah the article mentions those, but those are inserted by Chrome, i.e. the website owner might not realise that they can prevent them from being shown themselves. But yes, I'm glad my browser doesn't add them, and that I can bloc
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by Vinnl 1y ago
This paragraph probably also summarises why this article was written: > “I tried to write in a way that would make people angry, for better or worse,” he said at a conference in April. The solutions his book advocates include sharply red
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by Vinnl 1y ago
> But recently, cracks have been starting to show. Norwegians are taking much more sick leave than a decade ago, driving up costs for health services. Student test scores have worsened more than in other Scandinavian countries, and criti
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by Vinnl 1y ago
> What you may not realize if you use Safari or Firefox is that the banners are never displayed in Google Chrome! Ah, so that's why so many websites are OK with it - they probably just don't realise that it's there. > I
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A quick note to our queer members(blog.nearlyfreespeech.net)
8 points by Vinnl 1y ago|0 comments
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by Vinnl 1y ago
It looks like it's not the article you were looking for, but there was also this similar article about one of the original authors of NVDA, who hits 900 WPM, also including an audio sample: https://www.9news.com.au/nati
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by Vinnl 1y ago
Great post. When you're reading a Mermaid diagram, do you just happen to have memorised that "dash dash greater than" means "arrow"? I assume the screen reader doesn't understand ASCII art. And how painful is r
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by Vinnl 1y ago
Not by itself, no.
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by Vinnl 1y ago
FWIW, Solid is mostly seeing interest in the EU.
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by Vinnl 1y ago
Solid doesn't do that. It can be part of a solution, but the other part is/would be regulation.
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by Vinnl 1y ago
But how many features then remain? For example, I've seen people discuss font size, version numbers, viewport size, etc. Do the remaining features still make a unique identifier?
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by Vinnl 1y ago
So, one thing I don't quite get about fingerprinting: > For example, websites can see web browser version, number of CPUs on your device, screen size, number of touchpoints, video/audio codecs, operating system and many other
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by Vinnl 1y ago
That argument is easily refuted by "sure, I don't mind the government/Google/etc. having access to all that". The GP argument is the correct one. You might not mind now , but that's not the problem.
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by Vinnl 1y ago
Usually the opposite of privatisation is not that something magically appears for free, but that it is funded by a state.
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by Vinnl 1y ago
Related: By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall https://signal.org/blog/signal-doesnt-recall/
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by Vinnl 1y ago
Oof, a delay that long should not happen. Might be worth reporting at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org , ideally with a profile attached (see https://profiler.firefox.com/ )?
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by Vinnl 1y ago
See the section in the article that starts with: > Sure, there’s uBlock Origin “Lite” now, which does the same thing, right?
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How to Firefox(kau.sh)
818 points by Vinnl 1y ago|484 comments
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by Vinnl 1y ago
I'm sure some Thunderbird devs read HN, but if you'd be interested in helping more people with this comment, I'd log it at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Thunderbi...

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