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by dessant 4y ago
It's not just browser extensions, but any popular software project that has no stable funding source. This extension has been maintained for years, and it requires a lot of effort to keep updated because it interacts with websites. The
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by dessant 4y ago
This is your cue to remove the extension from your browser immediately. I've been developing extensions for years, and I've never seen an extension acquisition done by a company like Avast not transform the extension into a data h
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by dessant 4y ago
> Google tooling knowledge doesn't transfer very well to outside projects. A good number of their open source projects fall apart in real-world use. If you visit their repositories you'll often get the sense that beyond working
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by dessant 4y ago
Some companies do support open source projects, though that has no relevance here. We're talking about large companies that generate a profit on the back of open source projects, and refuse to support those projects.
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> I think it is fair to talk about this and how it can maybe be done better. I agree, though it's evident that the discussion is stained by the tone of this article. They aren't approaching this topic with some respect and unde
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What the article refers to as bait and switch is what open source maintainers call disillusionment, and the realization that nobody is there to prop them up and feed them while they work for the public good. You should not shame people who
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by dessant 4y ago
The base iPhone 14 is an upper mid-range phone, not high-end.
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by dessant 4y ago
Google will be able to use a variety of ad delivery methods that are not yet blockable with the filtering API they will now also fully control in Chrome.
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by dessant 4y ago
Ancillary data collection is against Firefox Add-ons policies. They should be reported if the extension does indeed collect such data. https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/publish/add-on-p... > Prohibite
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by dessant 4y ago
There is a difference between initial product design (also needs to follow regulations, but not the main topic of discussion), and failure to act on repeated bug reports spanning years that clearly describe software bugs which disrupt emerg
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by dessant 4y ago
I think it's important to hold people responsible for negligence that causes harm to others, even in the tech industry.
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by dessant 4y ago
The repeated negligence around the handling of Android bugs related to emergency calls should result in criminal prosecution. It's unlikely that actual people weren't hurt because of these bugs. They have known about these issues
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by dessant 4y ago
My favourite tool for one-off lossless image optimization is FileOptimizer, each asset is processed with several size optimization libraries. https://nikkhokkho.sourceforge.io/static.php?page=FileOptimi...
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by dessant 4y ago
Factory workers usually aren't snagged by headhunters, and many jobs around the world require online application.
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by dessant 4y ago
Elderly and marginalized people do suffer because of restricted access to online services. People who cannot access the web and its services are at an obvious disadvantage in life, and that sometimes can have severe consequences. https:&#x
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by dessant 4y ago
In some cases Google can only be avoided at a potentially life altering personal cost. Consider how many government services use reCAPTCHA, and what it means to have no access or delayed access to these services.
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by dessant 4y ago
It isn't intentional, the official implementations of M3 include a new checkbox.
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by dessant 4y ago
With Android 12 they introduced Material Design 3, the latest iteration of the design system used by Android and other Google products. Their designers haven't even bothered to publish a proper and usable spec this time, but Google mar
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by dessant 4y ago
I wonder when will Google finally stop harassing users to enable Google Play Protect when they install or update an app with F-Droid.
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by dessant 4y ago
I'd rather not help them in any way, given the company behind it. The best-case scenario is that they'll use the chatbot to decline your request for help after your Facebook account was suspended by a different potato algorithm. B
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by dessant 4y ago
Once a platform is past a certain size, they should no longer be allowed to permanently ban a person without due process. See for example the people whose lives have been affected because they were banned from Facebook for absolutely no rea
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by dessant 4y ago
I wait for the day that this conduct becomes illegal, because it can destroy people's lives. It is actually surprising that consumer protection laws do not yet address the issue of due process.
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by dessant 4y ago
I still remember how their jerk founder "saved" a village in Zimbabwe from a "problem elephant", and they have basically advertised their business using boobs for years. And that's besides all the scummy actions and
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by dessant 4y ago
The issue wasn't an occasional mistake done in good faith. The commenter has decided to explicitly dismiss contribution guidelines, and for that the healthy response is to call out their lack of respect for the time of open source main
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by dessant 4y ago
GitHub is indeed a platform that can be used for social coding, and it is also a service that encourages the use of contribution guidelines. If the maintainer asks you to open an issue to discuss your contribution before submitting a pull r
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by dessant 4y ago
It's one thing to stumble upon a repository that does not have contribution guidelines and submit a pull request, that is obviously fine. But you're advocating against respecting the wishes of strangers, and disregard their reques
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by dessant 4y ago
> When they make a project public they’re explicitly condoning the fact they may get a PR I don't think that's true. It appears you just assume that because pull requests cannot be disabled on GitHub. Sending unsolicited pull r
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by dessant 4y ago
Your quick PR becomes the maintainer's burden, and rejecting a pull request can also come with a substantial time cost. It's best to conform to the contribution process described by the maintainer to avoid wasting their time as mu
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by dessant 4y ago
It can auto decline the canvas request and return fake image data from the API by default when privacy.resistFingerprinting is enabled. privacy.resistFingerprinting.autoDeclineNoUserInputCanvasPrompts must be set to false to always sh
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by dessant 4y ago
> What more do you want? Inform users when they silently pass garbage through web APIs such as HTMLCanvasElement.toDataURL(), when it happens. And the UX of that should also be very carefully considered. Otherwise you might end up with s

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