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by dessant 7y ago
Equally enforcing policies regardless of who's the publisher of an extension would be a good start. This is how the Avast blocklisting request should have been handled: - Immediately blocklist [1] the extension because it harvests pers
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by dessant 7y ago
AMP must be included in the investigation. Google's latest tactic is the introduction of Signed HTTP Exchanges [1], which still forces publishers to create AMP sites that are delivered from a Google server in order to appear at the top
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by dessant 7y ago
Here's the rejected Firefox blocklist request for Avast extensions: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1600600 Blocklisting the extensions would disable existing installations and stop ancillary data collecti
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by dessant 7y ago
Microsoft is doing the same as Google, they set a default search engine that can be changed, instead of offering an active choice before setting a default. Both companies behave inappropriately, but then again, actions like these are needed
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by dessant 7y ago
This is good news, given the circumstances. Google doesn't show a welcome screen in Chrome to select your default search engine, and this action somewhat helps with mitigating that imbalance. Considering Chrome's market share, it&
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by dessant 7y ago
I've actually removed that second question before I noticed your answer, because I knew you would then skip over the first one. Feel free to address the main point I was making in all my posts in this thread, whenever you feel ready. &
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by dessant 7y ago
Browser specs can be improved, and new ones introduced. And even if safe prefetching is deemed technically impossible, the question remains: should we give Google and a handful of other companies disproportionate control over how we publish
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by dessant 7y ago
I think the correct term I was looking for is prefetching. That's a secure way to tell the browser to start loading search result links in the background.
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by dessant 7y ago
AMP pages are preloaded, that's how your get the 0ms load time. If Google would instruct the browser to preload other search results the same way, those would also be available in 0ms when the user accesses them.
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by dessant 7y ago
It no longer makes sense to be able serve our own content without it being pushed down in search results? We were talking about CDNs because your collegue mentioned AMP CDNs, but the main point doesn't change: we cannot serve our own c
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by dessant 7y ago
By "their CDN" I meant Google, Cloudflare and Microsoft. Can we set up our own CDN to serve our own content from our own servers and receive the AMP badge in search results? Please disclose your affiliation to Google either in you
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by dessant 7y ago
The content is still served from their CDN regardless of the domain. There is no way to serve AMP sites from your own servers and appear in the search carousel among other AMP articles. Google is strong-arming the entire web to switch to AM
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by dessant 7y ago
Aurora Droid comes with a customizable list of package repositories, including an F-Droid repository mirror. Aurora Store fetches packages from the same source as the Google Play client. There's a legitimate benefit to having access to
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by dessant 7y ago
Aurora Droid and Aurora Store are sleek alternatives for the F-Droid and Google Play clients. They use the same sources for content, but the apps feel much snappier and look pleasant. [1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages
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by dessant 7y ago
It appears only OPesa was taken down so far from Google Play. OKash, OPay and CashBean are still available. CashBean's keyword stuffed app ID [1] is remarkable, this is the first time I've seen such a spammy app ID on Google Play.
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by dessant 7y ago
> I have a Chromebook. It was listed on the models that would support Android app, this support never came (it's still "planned", 2 years later...) You should be eligible for a refund, file a complaint with consumer protec
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by dessant 7y ago
You can also install extensions from the Chrome Web Store in Edge, there's a switch to enable the feature on the extension management page.
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by dessant 7y ago
Microsoft is replicating the entire browser ecosystem, so developers and users who prefer Chromium are no longer bound to Google. Firefox is my browser of choice, and their reviewer team is wonderful, see my other [1] comment, though all of
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by dessant 7y ago
I don't think becoming a target for malicious actors is the reason for Chrome Web Store reviews being awful, see the threads I've linked to above and explore the rest of the links. Chrome Web Store reviewers are simply not properl
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by dessant 7y ago
I have published some of my extensions for the new Edge browser on their store [1], the submission experience was straightforward and pleasant, and the extensions were published in a couple of days after manual review. Updates were also rev
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by dessant 7y ago
The correct approach is to use feature detection. There are libraries available for it, such as Modernizr [1]. [1] https://modernizr.com/docs/#what-is-feature-detection
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by dessant 7y ago
I think the email list is already up for sale, they just don't mention it. See how the email column says "Yes" for most entries, as in: "yes, we have their email". Though you'll have to follow the clues and use
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by dessant 7y ago
I'm in a similar situation, so I wrote a small extension that adds a new Google Search provider to the browser with US locale. https://github.com/dessant/search-google-us You could also search by visiting Google u
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Search by Image Update Rejected from the Chrome Web Store(github.com)
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by dessant 7y ago
TextCaptcha can be a viable alternative to reCAPTCHA depending on the type of service you're protecting, and it doesn't come with the privacy drawbacks of Google's catch-all privacy policy. The personal data collected by the
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by dessant 7y ago
It's rare to see such rabid government propaganda on HN, like some of the posts in this thread. The activity in this thread is comparable to pro-government posts seen on threads about Chinese internment camps and the Social Credit Syst
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by dessant 7y ago
I think the endgame is to route everything through Tor or a similar anonymizing layer, nothing else will suffice in the face of pervasive tracking. Incidentally, Mozilla is showing interest in embedding Tor in Firefox [1], but they haven&#x
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by dessant 7y ago
The truly problematic part is that Mozilla did not immediately block the extension for executing arbitrary remote code that is controlled by the antivirus company. Mozilla has recently blocked several translation extensions for loading remo
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by dessant 7y ago
It's enough to add rel="noreferrer" to links, noopener is implied. https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/links.html#link-type-...
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by dessant 7y ago
The cult of personality that is being nurtured around certain members of the Python community definitely harms the Python ecosystem, because solutions with glaring flaws get a pass when they are stamped with someone's name, and the mis

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