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by _23sd 4y ago
I'm really liking Firefox View. Having to open the hamburger menu and click twice to get recently closed tabs (and a similar story with synced tabs) was never very convenient, having a nice full page in one click is a huge improvement.
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by _23sd 4y ago
DDG isn't doing uBO level ad blocking like Brave does. It's just blocking common tracking domains and elements, so you don't get (much) cosmetic filtering and some ads will still show up. My local newspaper's site has gr
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by _23sd 4y ago
As mentioned in that interview, Brave's biggest reason for switching away from Gecko was that they couldn't support Netflix DRM. Gecko-based browsers can support it today because Widevine works (see Librewolf).
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How is it a serious UX/design problem? iMessage just makes SMS messages green and it's so effective at conveying the difference that people claim it creates social stigma against Android users.
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I'm fine with calling Blink based browsers "Chrome skins" and WebKit based browsers "Safari skins" but only if we all understand that "skin" isn't just a cosmetic thing. Firefox on iOS has its own fea
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by _23sd 4y ago
I use these Firefox extensions which provide certain features that are built in on Brave: - uBlock Origin for general content blocking. Brave's filtering uses EasyList heavily so if those are enabled the results should be similar.
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There are limitations, it's not always just like your home credit union. One of the reasons one might go to a bank branch when we have ATMs and online banking is to get a cashier's check, which can't be done through co-op. My
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Yes, I just tried it and apparently Firefox on iOS uses that user agent when it gets a thumbnail of a page for its "Recently Saved" and "Jump Back In" sections on the new tab page.
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True, though in my opinion that's not nearly widespread or impactful enough that people needed to be opted in to DoH by default as in Firefox, or sold DoH as a "safer" option like Cloudflare does.
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Targeting DNS providers is only worth it because of the growing power of resolvers like Quad9 and 1.1.1.1. Otherwise they would have to go back to getting orders against every ISP in a jurisdiction, which should be near-impossible in a free
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by _23sd 4y ago
After reading the article, I still don't understand the exception Apple purportedly gets from its tracking rules. As I understand it, Amazon is allowed to use activity in the Kindle app to show personalized ads in the Amazon Shopping a
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Brave Search is pretty good for basic queries but it doesn't support most operators, even basic ones like quotes, making it less suitable for people who use their google-fu a lot. When I use Brave as my default, I have to fall back on
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by _23sd 4y ago
You seem to be saying that if the government characterizes X as misinformation that is killing people, that is a "pretty clear threat that they are looking to regulate you". If that's accurate, how is the framing of "We
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Reminds me of the time a few years ago when my mom had a problem: her 1 year old cheap Android phone wasn't reliably getting push notifications from LINE anymore. Opening the app would always catch it up, but if she forgot, then notifi
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by _23sd 4y ago
According to the data this article is based on [1] (shown in chart form with a handy "Get the data" button to download a CSV), at least half the workforce has been neither "engaged" nor "actively disengaged" -
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by _23sd 4y ago
You can get something close to Brave's Speedreader setting on Firefox with an extension [1], the difference is you have to enable it on each site. There doesn't seem to be anything similar for Chromium, probably because it's
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by _23sd 4y ago
Defender ATP isn't really comparable to XProtect because it's providing your company with detailed logs of what's going on with the device - file operations, network connections, data about every program executed and the comm
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The requirement is to do something to estimate the age of users, nowhere does it say that would always need to be more invasive than asking the user if they're over 18. If we do all know that it doesn't have to be facial recogniti
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The facial recognition thing seems unlikely to me, nobody likes it except tech companies that want a magic AI to solve their compliance problems. If you care about privacy then biometrics is a no-go, if not then actual ID verification is mo
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From what I can see in the bill, storing personal information collected to determine age is specifically not allowed. The specifics of how to implement the actions specified are left up to a "California Children’s Data Protection Worki
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The bill does not require face scans nor anything similar. The author of this article wrote another piece claiming that AB 2773 would boost companies that provide age verification products, and someone from a trade group representing age ve
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by _23sd 4y ago
They should just lock the thread if it’s getting unproductive. Sounds like the developers aren’t interested in putting it on the Mac App Store and don’t want to discuss the reasons, so of course the thread is going to be nothing but complai
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Most of the carrier "On Us" offers are just free trials, that Verizon one for example is a 6 month trial. T-Mobile does an ongoing one for Netflix, but even the most premium plan only gets the Standard tier, they're clearly c
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Like the author, I hope to see some kind of open system get adopted. 3rd party apps are popular in a lot of places but they are the wrong solution because you rely on a company offering a free service to behave. In Japan, the dominant messa
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by _23sd 4y ago
Worth noting that these articles are from 2019 and there hasn't been much talk of 5G TVs since. Aside from plain old 5G hype, SK Telecom wants 5G TVs as part of their envisioned ATSC/5G convergence that would bring more OTT servic
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The idea of a government run debtor blacklist has been thoroughly demonized in America for the past decade through news stories about “social credit” in China. Maybe it works in Europe but if you wanted something similar in America it’s goi
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To be clear, those links are only for the eleventh batch of "ready to authorize" bids that was released today. Other bids were authorized in different batches, viewable at https://www.fcc.gov/auction/904/
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Comcast didn't participate in RDOF: https://www.fiercetelecom.com/operators/comcast-adds-323-000...
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>There are zero benefits to phone identity over email I can think of one: most people’s email identity is subject to termination under Google’s ToS. Same thing with identity tied to Facebook or other social networks. In the US, your abil
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The money is definitely trending that way. The Association of Japanese Animators publishes yearly data on industry trends [1], and their data shows a stagnant domestic market and a booming overseas market from 2014 onwards. International re

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