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by dessant 4y ago
Firefox no longer allows extensions to have full control over requests in Manifest V3, despite their repeated public statements. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1786919 They have merged a change that makes it i
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by dessant 4y ago
There were no official statements, but an engineer at Apple working on extensions said that "Apple sees extension APIs as long term support". https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/298#issuecomm
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by dessant 4y ago
Your comment just got better and better as it progressed, I wish properly informing patients was standard practice for dental care.
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by dessant 4y ago
It's worrying that any website can access real-time data from sensors by default in Android browsers, and there is no option to deny access to these APIs in Firefox for Android and Samsung Internet. https://sensor-js.xyz&#x2
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by dessant 4y ago
Google has decided to show these popups by default to everyone that is browsing the web with tracking protection enabled since October 2022. This prompt has started to pop in our faces on most sites that integrate Google Sign-In as soon as
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by dessant 4y ago
It was inevitable to delay the rollout, the adoption of Manifest V3 is way too low among the most popular extensions. Take a look at the various featured categories on the Chrome Web Store, only a small fraction of featured extensions have
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by dessant 4y ago
Before that we didn't have anyone to contact, and the Chrome extensions team definitely did not react to feedback in any meaningful way.
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by dessant 4y ago
The Chrome extensions team has been considerably more responsive to criticism since Simeon Vincent has become a Developer Advocate. It's important to see the perspective of developers who've been working with these APIs for years,
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by dessant 4y ago
It's also alarming that GNOME extensions are updated in the background without user interaction, and the feature cannot be disabled. These extensions are not sandboxed, can run arbitrary commands, and have access to the entire system.
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by dessant 4y ago
All the more disheartening that they resort to all this sliminess when they're at the top. I'd love to see an Apple that acknowledges the coil whine in Mac Studio and Studio Display. An Apple that does not distort the meaning of p
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by dessant 4y ago
You're right, and this is what the Digital Markets Act will help achieve. Though considering how tech companies behave in the face of new consumer rights (see how it took Google half a decade and multiple fines to show a GDPR compliant
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by dessant 4y ago
> The author of the article wrote that all he had to do was request his data from Apple You observation has nothing to do with what is being discussed, we have a right to inspect the network activity of our devices. I remember you postin
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by dessant 4y ago
The public dismissal of the evidence these researchers presented in the last few weeks was surprising. It isn't truly important whether the App Store is an integral component of iOS, which it practically is until Apple becomes complian
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by dessant 4y ago
Fun fact: Mozilla projects are now developed in part by Cognizant Softvision, including Firefox for Android. Their employees are everywhere on Mozilla bug trackers, and their numbers seem to have increased since 2020, right after Mozilla fi
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by dessant 4y ago
It's almost as if one is expected to keep sharing until their last day, without ever being entitled to change the terms of sharing.
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by dessant 4y ago
Chrome Web Store reviewers leave a lot to be desired. My only effective strategy over the years has been to shame them in public and let them know that our interactions are immediately published across the web. You have to be relentless, ot
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by dessant 4y ago
It's actually the Digital Services Act, I have corrected my comment.
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by dessant 4y ago
Luckily all of this will be illegal in the EU thanks to the Digital Services Act, developers will have the right to know the exact reason for a rejection, and Google will need to provide real human support.
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by dessant 4y ago
Selfies are collected by a limited number of companies because it is a convenient way to satisfy KYC, but it is by no means legally required to collect this biometric data, nor is it secure to verify customers this way thanks to the prolife
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by dessant 4y ago
They should just verify identities without selfies, like most payment providers. This trend of using selfies comes from shady crypto companies that were eager to pretend that their users have been verified, while also benefiting from the co
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by dessant 4y ago
Recently I've signed up with Paddle, and they have opted to verify user identities with Onfido, so they have asked for a government ID and a selfie. I have contacted Paddle and refused to provide a selfie, so they eventually asked me t
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by dessant 4y ago
Good luck with that ridiculous generalization, and the partial quote that removes the context.
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by dessant 4y ago
I'm not sure what you're understanding from my comments at this point, but I said it early on that I see no problem with a bad faith question when it comes to questioning a Meta enginner's employment choice. I kept repeating
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by dessant 4y ago
No, I don't think any method of direct or indirect questioning is bad in this context, while you have a problem with both a roundabout and a direct critique of someone's employment choice, be it Meta or Amazon. You said it yoursel
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by dessant 4y ago
I think you're reading the least charitable interpretation into my comments. The question was not asked in bad faith, but genuine surprise, while I'm also bothered by people acting as if a Meta employee could not be called out. Yo
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by dessant 4y ago
I think you're the one who's attacking users here. Asking why someone would join a company is not an attack, even if I have my reservations about the company, and I had no plans to further interact with them, but probably continue
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by dessant 4y ago
> Do you seriously struggle to think of possible reasons for why someone would want to work for Meta? Yes, I struggle to think of a good reason to work for such a harmful company as Meta. People usually don't land there because of a
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by dessant 4y ago
I can imagine you haven't been involved in anything illegal, but I'm sure you've aware of Meta's documented track record of coordinated illegal actions. Do engineering teams just fall head first into a bucket of 2FA phon
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by dessant 4y ago
Facebook was already caught using 2FA phone numbers for ad targeting, and they have also collected biometric data without consent for years, so you can fully expect that picture of your face to be eventually used in illegal ways by Meta.
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by dessant 4y ago
How would you reward open source maintainers? Donations can rarely sustain a project, so my own solution was to also start selling my work on app stores, but that may not work for everyone.

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