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by dao- 8y ago
Except that Firefox blocked the site in question.
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by dao- 8y ago
Yep, that's roughly how it must have went. They even hired a friend of mine to come up with PR strategies against the resistance. Needless to say, it didn't work out.
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by dao- 8y ago
> There may still be very valid reasons to protest Google in Berlin, but I wonder if the people objecting understood the distinction: Very much so. Been to a panel discussion organized by them. The fear was that the incubator would accel
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by dao- 8y ago
> Is there actually a way to fix this? In the color preferences, set "Override the colors specified by the page with your selections above" to "Always". By default Firefox does this automatically when the OS is in hig
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by dao- 8y ago
Off the top of my head, there are transition events, requestAnimationFrame, and most importantly the Web Animations API. So what you're saying seems to be false.
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by dao- 8y ago
People point out that WebP isn't ideal, that there are better alternatives etc. All that may be true, but the most relevant factor here is Google and Microsoft backing WebP. Google has the power to push through its own inventions due t
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by dao- 8y ago
> When customers pay for things, capitalism works. For some definition of works that probably not everybody will share -- for instance, people living in 3rd world countries or customers who paid for an "eco-friendly" diesel car
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by dao- 8y ago
Google used to pay people working on Firefox, including the lead engineer at the time, Ben Goodger. They pulled them to work on Chrome. Had they wanted, they could have invested more in Firefox to improve its performance. But what they real
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by dao- 8y ago
Should work on Windows: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/annotate/ea67de243b02...
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by dao- 8y ago
I think I've seen "their" used instead of "her" or "his" where people declined to specify any gender. This works in English but not in German for instance, where I think they write "ihren/seinen&
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by dao- 8y ago
I'm only friends with people on Facebook who know my gender, so it doesn't really matter. Plus it only actually shows in a few places such as "xxx replied to his/her comment" notifications.
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by dao- 8y ago
> However, I can't get Facebook ads targeted to a different gender. Actually you can by lying to Facebook. I have been doing this for a long time and the bullshit ads I get are kind of amusing.
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by dao- 8y ago
I have been to Amsterdam, yes. :) That's why I asked for /massive/, i.e. a scale that's comparable to the space dedicated to cars.
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by dao- 8y ago
I wouldn't think of my body as private property. Leaving that aside, the answer to your question is that everybody has a body, so we're not talking about the same kind of privilege that car owners have. Nor do bodies occupy the sa
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by dao- 8y ago
Curious. Where are those massive bicycle and scooter dedicated roads and parking spaces that occupy our cities?
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by dao- 8y ago
Re: water resistance – Sony is pretty good there too, but last time I plunged my phone, the headphone jack itself was acting up until it had dried out. I guess there's no way around that. Edit: Oh, and when I broke my older model with
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by dao- 8y ago
> A user who initiates the installation of a browser does so on purpose. That's not quite true, considering how Chrome ended up on many PCs, e.g.: https://www.ghacks.net/2012/02/26/avast-7-will-install
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by dao- 8y ago
Says Mozilla, and the source code is available for anyone to double-check. Google doesn't have control over what data Firefox sends to the safe browsing API.
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by dao- 8y ago
For instance, disabling geolocation. You need to explicitly approve geolocation requests anyway. If you're sure you'll never ever want to share your location with a site, sure, disable it globally. But recommending this to others
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by dao- 8y ago
Which even if true has nothing to do with privacy...
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by dao- 8y ago
Hysteria or ignorance, as with other items in this list. Safe browsing is designed not to compromise privacy.
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by dao- 8y ago
> How much precious developer time is required maintain a user-facing text field on an entity with only a handful of other fields? The description removal blocked improvements to bookmarking that will actually affect a significant share
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by dao- 8y ago
> I don't know what is 'a significant share' when we are talking about power users. It basically means: worth tailoring to, given precious UI space and limited developer resources. Of course there's no fixed share tha
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by dao- 8y ago
> Don't have the bugzilla handy Here you are: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042
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by dao- 8y ago
Can you explain how exactly the description field for bookmarks was a relevant feature for a significant share of power users?
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by dao- 8y ago
> The funny thing is, had Tesla just said: we don't need to innovate upon lean manufacturing Or had they done it the right way like BMW did with the i3. Source: BMW i3 Teardown: An Electronics Masterpiece: http://www.tech
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by dao- 8y ago
> about:addons is an iframe that includes the addons.mozilla.org website Only in the "Get Add-ons" section, mind you. Everything else is local.
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by dao- 8y ago
Except for Instagram posts, presumably?
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by dao- 8y ago
Pretty rough, but that's not a too unrealistic scenario given that Google is a pretty aggressive competitor in the browser market and there are hardly any other search engines that would be good enough to be the default in a mainstream
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by dao- 8y ago
Bing happens to have quite a good privacy policy, afaik.

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