bigbugbag

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   by bigbugbag 9y ago

   I beg to differ, I wish they would not remove the previous interface when introducing a new one and offer the user the freedom to choose the one she prefers. This is one major gripe I have with mozilla and firefox: depriving the user of the
2. 422.▲
   by bigbugbag 9y ago

   honest question: what exactly in what he said are not facts ? Do mozilla not have 1200 employees and top people being paid 1M $ ?
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   by bigbugbag 9y ago

   This is something I wondered about for quite some time now. How come so many employees and so much spent money with so little to show for it. Reading the reason for dropping alsa support or refusing to have better linux integration it seems
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   by bigbugbag 9y ago

   Get over it, firefox is dead. Mozilla does not care the least about you or your needs. Your best option right now is waterfox (yup the name says it all), it has no plan of dropping support for "legacy" extensions and even has plan
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   by bigbugbag 9y ago

   > Don't know how Aliexpress is so profitable since their website is worse than Amazon (yes, that is possible); they couldn't even hire a native English speaker to copyedit it. Aliexpress sells to Chinese people which makes it p
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   by bigbugbag 9y ago

   I think your (1) is mistaken, it should be something like google expanding its domination over the web by multiplying the places to show adwords and adsense (gmail, youtube, analytics, maps, android, play store, earth, docs, drive, etc.)
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   by bigbugbag 9y ago

   I remember quite correctly the "don't be evil" motto and I remember it having a very different meaning than "do good". I also remember that it was among the most misunderstood things at google and that it served goo
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   by bigbugbag 9y ago

   What do you mean ? To me crowd sourced information is still more reliable than most sources.
9. 429.▲
   by bigbugbag 9y ago

   Not sure who you are referring to when you say "we" relied on gossip and hearsay to determine what's true. I clocked my share of years of life before google was even born and I have no recollection of the times you are referr
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    by bigbugbag 9y ago

    I've been using duckduckgo for several years and unless Bing had radically changed in recent times, I would consider Bing to be the more limited of the two. I wanted to look up a translation and tried !wr word on bing and it did not lo
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    by bigbugbag 9y ago

    and yandex. https://duck.co/help/results/sources
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    by bigbugbag 9y ago

    > Why would DDG be any better? It's just Bing wrapped in incognito. Turns out DDG is not "just Bing wrapped in incognito"[1] so you actually answered your own question here. But even if it were, the incognito part is enoug
13. 433.▲
    by bigbugbag 9y ago

    Google always provides the "best results for you", this is called the filter bubble. DDG just provides the best results. I'm not interested the best results for you, I'm not even interested in the best results for me. I
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    by bigbugbag 9y ago

    Actually if you look closely there are a few Tarantino's movie django in the rows of thumbnails from google images. Other than those I can confirm that google is bad at providing relevant results for this keyword, and instead only focu
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    by bigbugbag 9y ago

    Well yes, this is the expected behaviour of a search engine. You ask for django and you get results for django[1]. When what you search has several possible meanings duckduckgo allows you to choose which one in the "meanings" top
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    by bigbugbag 9y ago

    How would know if it was actually super unhelpful ? for example by reporting a business as closed when it actually is open ? What about the business itself ? Would it survive if google told people it's closed when it's open ? I&#x
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    by bigbugbag 9y ago

    To me it is obvious that this map is not targeting visitors but hotels to draw them in and have them fill the google database with their details.
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    by bigbugbag 9y ago

    Actually there are alternatives, qwant[1] is one example, framabee is another[2] [1]: https://www.qwant.com/ [2]: https://framabee.org/
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    by bigbugbag 9y ago

    Wow that's quite a load of useless crap, sensory information overload. For lack of a screenshot I imagine this is not presented in a consistent manner. Apart from this inconsistent and confusing presentation, there is not much differen
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    by bigbugbag 9y ago

    You can remove the search bar altogether. In most modern browsers the address bar works as a search bar too.
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    by bigbugbag 9y ago

    I cannot replicate your result. https://i.imgur.com/zdAQrIB.png
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    by bigbugbag 9y ago

    > Not sure if this is just me, but Google Search results are getting less and less relevant for my queries and at the same time, provide more and more spammy sites as results. This had been going on for over 15 years now, I remember a ti
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    by bigbugbag 9y ago

    I remember reading and seeing a demonstration of how the youtube recommended videos had significant tendencies to tend toward the worst, were it be fake news, click bait, dumb stuff, mindless conspiracies or else. IIRC it was linked to the
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    by bigbugbag 9y ago

    I'm pretty convinced the victim here is the children and the perpertrators are the parents. Think about it: scientific consensus is pretty clear that the content makes no difference there should be no exposure to any kind of screen for
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    by bigbugbag 9y ago

    I have no idea what you are talking about. I have installed a ublock origins on a few dozens of android devices of all kind and it always works like a charm.
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    by bigbugbag 9y ago

    Sweden ?
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    by bigbugbag 9y ago

    Actually advertisements are not something kids should be exposed to at all. At least if you have the sake and health of the kid in minf. If what you have in mind is to target kids while they have not yet developed their mind to the point of
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    by bigbugbag 9y ago

    you have a similar opinion on the specific broken school system you have in mind. Not all school systems are broken by design and aim at shoehorning kids in a mental mould to have them integrate the system society wants them to be a part of
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    by bigbugbag 9y ago

    Simply enough: dopamine. This is an enjoyable experience for them, it is actually designed to be. This is how you sell tie-ins and make profit, the younger you get them the deeper they're caught in. The side effect is that it is destro
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    by bigbugbag 9y ago

    Exactly this ! Do not let young children unsupervised when online or watching tv or videos.