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8y ago
They are getting close to a monopoly in the browser market and a monopoly in the search market, so yes, this is exactly what's happening. You can pretend it's not a big deal because now they are using their power for good (I guess
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8y ago
I understand the rationale behind all of this, but I would get pissed off if Google sent me an email that basically says "do what we tell you to do or we will take your website offline"
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8y ago
>what you are losing is the long tail of smaller independent films that may be more thought provoking or diverse. >they will keep the Transformers and Marvel movies and cut the smaller ones. Most of the bigger franchises have already
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fasafsafsf
8y ago
First, they could be sticking to neutral news . Those exist. Second, I don't believe the source code of the algorithm that picks which news to show you is available... If there's an algorithm at all, because chances are it's
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fasafsafsf
8y ago
I have disabled all the Pocket stuff on my Firefox so I didn't see this, but it does not surprise me (even though it disappoints me) that the Mozilla Corporation is using the Firefox home page to push left-wing news.
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8y ago
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?id=113833548694790&st... https://media.8ch.net/file_store/8f7768746a7f506321a02470643...
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fasafsafsf
8y ago
That is crazy. Even systems like ContentID are full of flaws.
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fasafsafsf
8y ago
>This seems well-intentioned but incredibly dangerous. Like many of the things the Mozilla Corporation has been doing these last years.
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8y ago
I think they already have such systems via bots, but they don't block or undo things automatically because I assume it's hard to know programmatically the licence of things that are posted on the Internet.
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8y ago
Get a better antivirus then, because it's picking the URL that appears in the post.