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by dahwolf 3y ago
"Just" have to add new features? Do you have any idea how vast the web platform is these days?
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Here's a ferry containing electric cars being on fire as we speak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmfHC6ZeeNg It will take additional days to extinguish the fire, and then several weeks of monitoring the lithium. You
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by dahwolf 3y ago
I have a counter proposal. Us humans should fully embrace this and then work to become even more useless than a bot. We're going to maximize watching and clicking ads without every buying a damn thing again. We never convert, making on
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by dahwolf 3y ago
You must have never heard of test automation with real devices? No human there, still passes this check.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
There's a lot of moral outrage regarding this proposal, rightfully so. In fact, it should be further intensified. But apart from that, I don't think this proposal will work in any case. When implemented without holdouts (closed lo
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by dahwolf 3y ago
The type of websites requiring advanced anti-abuse tactics currently make heavy use of fingerprinting techniques. Google's idea that fingerprinting will cease to exist if this is implemented is a joke.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
It doesn't prove that a human is present at all.
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The difference can probably be explained by nobody having any idea that Apple already implemented a version of this. And on top of that, Google's reputation of brutal power grabs on the web may make a difference in tone. Importantly th
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by dahwolf 3y ago
You're not wrong, and I'm a Firefox user as well. But as it comes to the urgent matter of stopping this proposal in its tracks, switching browsers won't do it. It requires other methods of immediate protest.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
To the people saying "stop using Chrome", I don't think you understand the situation. Using a non-Chrome browser does not protect you from this proposal. If anything, worst case it will force you to use Chrome for specific we
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by dahwolf 3y ago
The chess pieces for the end-to-end unblockable ad machine are in place. You'll have the cynically named "Privacy sandbox" that builds tracking directly into the browser. You curtail ad blockers by capping browser extensions.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Indeed, for example turning Tweets and Tiktok videos into articles.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
The web is still a zero-sum game without money involved. Search has 5-10 slots for whichever topic and if you're not in it, you effectively do not exist. This was even true before search, in web directories. It has a limited amount of
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by dahwolf 3y ago
I'm old. I've used every single version of Office both at home and in the Office and none came supplied with a chat app. The only exception at one point being Skype for Business, but I'm fuzzy as to whether this was a default
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by dahwolf 3y ago
If I'm not mistaken, Microsoft's chat apps were never part of Office. That's the issue at hand. Microsoft is not forbidden from making competing products, it's forbidden from misusing a dominant market position in A to s
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by dahwolf 3y ago
I think the money printing machine is fine. Stagnating a bit, but that's it. Rather this seems a time where companies check who is in fact not contributing in any way at all to the functioning of the money printing machine.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
An excessive amount of promotions is really bad. They disrupt teams. They create an incentive to build things that you never have to look after. They turn away attention from your team and the product you're working on. They undervalue
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by dahwolf 3y ago
So now it's a pyramid scheme? A scam and a pyramid scheme are not synonyms. Toxic promotion culture is neither a scam nor a pyramid scheme. A scam is where you pay for something yet do not receive the promised item. Nobody promised you
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by dahwolf 3y ago
FAANG has money printing machines based on ad monopolies, with the exception of Apple. All their engineers could do nothing for a year and nobody could tell as it comes to metrics. There's no evidence I know of that suggests that promo
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Interesting trajectory and this approach should be normalized. I too am intentionally moderately ambitious only in the sense that I work at a lower level compared to what would be my maximum potential. But still at a high enough level for w
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by dahwolf 3y ago
"Can I make a standalone Excel competitor and then claim Microsoft is anti-competitive for "bundling" Excel?" That's not a fair comparison. Imagine that there is no Excel, instead one awesome company making a standa
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by dahwolf 3y ago
There it is, the AI scraping detector. The hints in the text are obvious: "This trust may assume that the client environment is honest about certain aspects of itself, keeps user data and intellectual property secure." The smoking
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by dahwolf 3y ago
I mean these type of developments are "natural" in the sense that the Netherlands is one of the densest countries in the world, 15 times denser than the US. I can ensure you that the typical Dutch person would love to have a US st
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by dahwolf 3y ago
The main factor is that the Netherlands is 15(!) times denser than the US. That's why everything has to be compact.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Firefox was even over 30% at one point. It's a fine browser, but that 30% was in the desktop era where the only competition was a stagnant IE. Then mobile happened and Firefox failed to secure a seat at the mobile OS table. Nor does it
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by dahwolf 3y ago
I'm Dutch and I want to push back against the glorification of our infrastructure. To comment on that video specifically: Yes, fully on board with the narrower streets, "hiding" parking, having some shared public space like p
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by dahwolf 3y ago
When I was younger here in the Netherlands a lot of us had tweaked motorcycles/scooters that would go much faster than the allowed cap of 50km/h. Many had a "cop switch". Cops suspecting you messed with the engine would
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Blendle was an attempt at Spotify for news, and is several years old. It didn't really work out in the end, the low fee shared with publishers was not sustainable.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
In the Netherlands, canceling Netflix is actually too easy. It's a single click and then "Bye!" How about begging me to stay? 3 confirmations? An input box where I can vent? A discount to stay? Nothing. It sucks, I want prope
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by dahwolf 3y ago
The alternative is context-sensitive ads based on surrounding context.

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