foobarding

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by foobarding 2y ago
Also in case you were curious what tipped me off was seeing just how common it is for Chromebooks to not have Google as their default search engine. Totally not the intended outcome of Google creating Chrome OS.
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by foobarding 2y ago
Yes this is exactly right. There is an industry of chrome extensions that exist to change the search engine to something truly unwanted (yahoo search anyone?) so that the extension author can extract rev share. They often advertise the exte
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by foobarding 3y ago
If Android didn’t exist, some other OS would take its place. Samsung would have developed its own most likely, which would at this stage probably resemble something very similar to what we have today. Only difference is that Google would ha
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by foobarding 4y ago
Dealing with SwiftUI recreating Views too often can be a challenge. I would have liked to have seen more details on how this guy setup his models. In my experience, you definitely have to minimize work done in Views and maybe avoid `@Publis
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by foobarding 5y ago
Neeva has a similar ad-free model. The experience is getting better all the time.
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by foobarding 5y ago
Unlike DDG, Neeva is ad free. It also has a bunch of additional features.
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by foobarding 6y ago
My question exactly.
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by foobarding 6y ago
If used in a third party context, sure.
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by foobarding 7y ago
No. While that was part of it, a larger part was access to device capabilities. Much of those things are addressed now by standard web platform APIs.
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by foobarding 7y ago
Yes, but I think you may be missing the point they were trying to make. This is simply a form of caching for content delivered over HTTPS that preserves the key properties of HTTPS. The browser gets the blob and confirms cryptographically t
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by foobarding 7y ago
oh, the irony. clickbait w/ the reward being ad revenue.