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by fwn 6y ago
If locking down on the extension ecosystem were only temporary they could just defer the nearing downgrade of their main line browser until their replacement is fully functional. But that's not what they do. Instead we do have a clear
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by fwn 6y ago
I'm not the previous commenter, but on Android Mozilla is removing the ability to install extensions from third parties (think GitHub, etc.) and will trim the only left official extension store down to a few extensions. (I think it&#x2
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by fwn 6y ago
> Facebook purchasing Whatsapp, another service that formerly stressed encryption, resulted in things like plaintext backups of your texts on Facebook servers being aggressively promoted as soon as you loaded the app. Ia that the case? A
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by fwn 6y ago
I can see how a unified board would take a lot of pressure from their companies but society-wise it would probably be better if such boards were separate, both for comparability and power spreading reasons.
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by fwn 6y ago
> Well, their goals are clearly different. From the FAQ linked above, it is clear they want to have some control over "the experience", which is mentioned a lot. Even without the linked FAQ it appears to be pretty straightforwa
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by fwn 6y ago
But I didn't argue that they shouldn't do it because we don't know whether people will compromise themselves. I argued they shouldn't do it despite knowing that people will have the ability to compromise themselves.
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by fwn 6y ago
I don't think any of this is necessary. I know we often say "the user is dumb, therefore software should patronize them", but that really only goes so far. On hindsight it looks like a balancing act where single features are
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by fwn 6y ago
Would also be bad for all extensions Mozilla does not allow in their extension store. All software stores can be pressured to remove content. Keeping the ability to load non-store extensions fixes that specific deplatfoming problem.
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by fwn 6y ago
I don't even know what "equating opinions" is supposed to mean in that context? We're talking about removing videos. It's not about equating anything, but allowing people to express themselves. > Ignorant people&
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by fwn 6y ago
> This is not a philosophical debate, people are literally dying. That's a bit like "let's not think about what we're doing, people are literally dying". The gravity of the situation only increases the need for e
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by fwn 6y ago
What's the "misinformation" I'm spreading? You've cloned an open source project for vague reasons, expanded the extensions permissions vastly and recently started to change the accounts hosting it. If that weren&#x2
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by fwn 6y ago
You don't want to reveal the reasons for your github suspension/deletion? (I could understand if they didn't tell you. Such notices are frustratingly often deliberately uninformative.) The first time this project was discusse
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by fwn 6y ago
Why did you switch from github.com/magnolia1234 (now deleted) to github.com/magnolia1234-new ?
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by fwn 7y ago
In many regions, especially suburban or rural regions, _a_ car is a necessity, yes. That doesn't mean it has to be an expensive car though. Many Americans make awful decisions around their cars. We had this thread five months ago:
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by fwn 7y ago
> what are the odds average person gets sufficiently annoyed by gvmt mandated apps and installs lineage? Won't happen to any meaningful degree. IMO if technologists fail to sensitize public discourse against the emerging dangers of
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by fwn 7y ago
Do you have some kind of source for that? I'd love to read more about it!
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by fwn 7y ago
I'm using Google Duo a lot and (to my surprise) it claims to be end-to-end encrypted: https://support.google.com/duo/answer/9280240?hl=en I started to use it as an alternative to WhatsApp calls for their supe
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by fwn 7y ago
On Tuesday afternoon Lichess (a popular free and open source chess service) showed a notification that they're "dealing with connection issues due to peak online users". The live stats panel showed around 60k players in aroun
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by fwn 7y ago
> Sure, disingenuous and bitter isn't anything like judging This was about your responses, not your intentions. That's also why I said I judged your response, not your intentions. Quote: > I did judge your responses though.
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by fwn 7y ago
> it's really important that people get the latest advice While that's true on an abstract level there really are some important qualifiers for "latest advice". I'm reading Wikipedia articles on the topic (they a
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by fwn 7y ago
I questioned your intentions, I didn't judge them - as I can't know them. I did judge your responses though. That's a good thing and something we owe to each other in a meaningful conversation.
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by fwn 7y ago
I did the same thing (hiding outbreak related content) on reddit with a few uBlock Origin filters: www.reddit.com##div[data-type="link"]:if(a:has-text(Covid-19)) www.reddit.com##article:if(span:has-text(Covid-19)) ww
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by fwn 7y ago
...so you are part of this project, right? That's not a big deal, of course. Usually quite the opposite. But usually people here don't try to deflect the question either, so.. It sounds a bit bitter as well. I'd love to see t
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by fwn 7y ago
I don't know. Advertising a fork as "clean"ed from something the original project (the ff extension) never had feels a bit disingenuous, marketing-wise. I'll stick with the old one as it requires less permissions. It see
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by fwn 7y ago
I've just searched that and it appears that the Chrome version does have a GA embed, the Firefox version does not. Here is the issue someone filed for it on the original repo: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-p
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by fwn 7y ago
What I really do not like about this fork is that it requests permission for all sites while the original version from iamadamdev only requests permission for sites the extension actually affects. They briefly switched to all access (like t
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by fwn 7y ago
That's actually (as far as I understood) something ublock origin seems to address in one of their most recent updates. See 1.25.0 release description: > From now on uBO will CNAME-uncloak network requests. https://github.
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by fwn 7y ago
That was true for a while but they added this feature some time ago. https://www.instagram.com/direct/inbox/
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by fwn 7y ago
It's not like they're removing it. They'll just push an update and your extensions will be gone. A lot of corporate communication wizards might be required to dress this up as something else than direct removal.
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by fwn 7y ago
Maybe you didn't mean it this way, but I think that advertising bitcoin for it's stable value is really disingenuous. It's a very volatile high risk product.

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