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by dessant 4y ago
The problem starts when the user has not been educated about the potential drawbacks of enabling such a feature. The privacy.resistFingerprinting option is the leading cause for angry Firefox users and unwarranted negative reviews on my par
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by dessant 4y ago
The discrimination of one group of people does not lessen the need to be just with a different group, and it doesn't absolve Facebook.
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by dessant 4y ago
You do realize that people's lives are being impacted, right? Running services of this size comes with responsibilities, and not just to your shareholders, but to society. You can't drive competitors out of business, then restrict
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by dessant 4y ago
Is Craigslist a universal service available around the world? I'm welcomed by this message when visiting the site: > Your request has been blocked. > If you have questions, please contact us.
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by dessant 4y ago
There isn't always a good alternative for a service that arbitrarily denied you access. Facebook Marketplace has replaced classifieds in many places, and being denied access to the service can negatively impact people's lives.
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by dessant 4y ago
I see you have your priorities sorted out. It has to be made illegal in the sense that its illegality should be recognized by a court, because it is plain discrimination.
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by dessant 4y ago
They need to be taken to court, and this practice has to be made illegal. A service should have a valid reason for banning someone, otherwise we will end up with a group of people that are perpetually discriminated and punished by AI for no
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by dessant 4y ago
> But designers have learned to get around this law and are using different design techniques to make users accept all cookies (trackers) anyway. These companies are not getting around the law, they are simply breaking the law. If a cons
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by dessant 4y ago
> Antitrust rules apply to monopolies, and Google has no where near monopoly over app stores or phones, the relevant systems here. I'm sure that will be consolation to the growing number of victims whose businesses and livelihoods w
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by dessant 4y ago
In case you decide to upload a billing statement on Amazon, do not send it as a text PDF, but export the document to an image and convert it to PDF. Their systems appear to have trouble parsing text in a PDF and you may receive an automated
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by dessant 4y ago
Exactly, it's perfectly fine to not report a bug and pay for a different product instead. The issue starts when we attribute this to not having the needed skills to report a problem, and we defer the work to our friends. Many of us hav
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by dessant 4y ago
If you have had the skills to write this comment, you have the skills to submit a bug report. Rectangle has a simple bug report template, and maintainers would probably guide you if you'd have trouble providing the requested informatio
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by dessant 4y ago
The extension API is mostly supported on all platforms, but certain features are not available everywhere, and implementation bugs are frequent. In the case of Safari regressions have also been present in almost every browser update.
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by dessant 4y ago
You could catch such issues early by setting up a billing alarm. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitori...
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by dessant 4y ago
Amazon seems to have started to reach even for pennies. I have been a light user of AWS services for the past several years, and my monthly bill was usually below 0.2 USD. They never bothered to take such small amounts from the registered c
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by dessant 4y ago
The experiences of others could be vastly different than yours. A possible answer: the developer has been throwing away bread, and couldn't easily find their favourite bread in smaller quantities in a city in India.
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by dessant 5y ago
The aim is not for everyone to quit these companies, but for enough people to refuse to build and maintain the harmful components of their systems so that these companies are forced to change. Regarding my projects, they'd be just as u
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by dessant 5y ago
Why are many of you still working for Meta and Google? I imagine you're well aware of all the harm they've been causing to society. We may never be able to counter or reverse the effects of their relentless efforts to normalize co
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by dessant 5y ago
I've skimmed your post, and I honestly feel like the content is not the main issue here, but the fact that it was written and published. You could share how you prefer to interact with people if the need arises , preferably by address
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by dessant 5y ago
That kind of consent popup is illegal in the EU, please report them to your local DPA. Rejecting data collection must be just as easy as accepting it. Also watch out for the use of "legitimate interest". I have seen banks trying t
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by dessant 5y ago
> Freedom of speech is of the highest priority for me. When you will be the one that is being targeted by those symbols, and by the people who adore them, you may develop a more nuanced set of priorities.
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by dessant 5y ago
This is the same team that brought attention to Opera's predatory lending apps: https://hindenburgresearch.com/opera-phantom-of-the-turnarou...
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by dessant 5y ago
Host based content blockers have no future. Ad companies have been moving to first-party ad delivery in the past few years, and YouTube serves ads and videos from the same host. Edit: nevermind, I've completely misread your comment to
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by dessant 5y ago
And you did not share a picture of your bird. Here is one: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fgiMlnbDN6I/hqdefault.jpg
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by dessant 5y ago
It could be specified that only the free version is open source. You may also experiment with open sourcing some paid features too, possibly with some delay after the release if you're concerned about forks eating into your profit. I t
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by dessant 5y ago
You have to appreciate how much effort goes into creating this piece of software, everything from the app to the changelog looks like a work of art. I think your definition of open source is a bit corrupted, and skewed towards expecting peo
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by dessant 5y ago
You can ask for anonymous feedback directly in the app instead of emailing users.
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by dessant 5y ago
But who will even need Better Call Saul when you'll be able to watch local exclusives, like Swiss Prince.
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by dessant 5y ago
They did not ask for consent to set up a payments profile during age verification. Though what you're describing would also be illegal. GDPR does not allow requesting consent for such broad data processing just to fulfill a legal requi
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by dessant 5y ago
They are lying. I have recently verified my age on YouTube with a credit card, and they've created a payments profile without my consent. I have discovered what happened a couple of weeks later when I've signed up for Google Cloud

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