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by fwn 8y ago
That is true, I did not want to deny that. However I think that it is not very speculative to say that, if more people knew about content blocking, more people would block unwanted content. My intention behind assuming his knowledge/co
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by fwn 8y ago
Not the parent, but just a few thoughts: He is the CEO of a technology company. The necessary knowledge about the existence of content blockers as well as the technological literacy to set them up is probably a given. He also probably has a
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by fwn 8y ago
A dark mode extension I'm using on Firefox for Android works as an css injector. One would only have to configure a custom stylesheet instead of a dark theme. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon&#x2
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by fwn 8y ago
Deconstructing freedom might be a fun exercise, it is, however, completely unrelated if it comes to criticising dystopian state oppression. (Which the linked article is about.) Torture & forced reeducation camps are wrong regardless o
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by fwn 8y ago
...also censorship. Even my German ISP (Vodafone) apparently reroutes some URLs to servers they control. Solved it with DNS66.
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by fwn 8y ago
I'd bet that as soon as a potential paid version leads to greater benefits than aesthetics, people will be up in arms against whatever treatment free users won't get. Facebook would poison their free tier and stale their remaining
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by fwn 8y ago
Firefox for Android (other then Focus/Klar) has the added benefit of also providing cosmetic content blocking. This allows blocking ads on Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Twitter, etc.. For many this might be the greater part of their mob
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by fwn 8y ago
The fundamental problem with defaults is that people do not change them, no matter what they say. There might be a fantastically tiny fraction of people actually following through. Eyeo even uses this behavioral insight to make a case that
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by fwn 8y ago
This article describes essentially rough influencers that use their social media marketing capabilities to fuel pyramid schemes with cheap high-risk financial products as their fig-leaf. While selling those products is regulated in many mar
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by fwn 8y ago
It is perfectly understandable why Amazon did that and siding with oppressive regimes is of course not unreasonable at all. Just unethical, hence the discussion.
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by fwn 8y ago
> Take finance, for instance. This is a field concerned with understanding how people with money invest it. Actual finance is mostly concerned with pure money management, agnostic of the entity holding the money. If it's not a perso
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by fwn 8y ago
Well, fair enough. The goal should be society mentally healthy enough so people don't want to hurt each other. I understand that people think about that as a technical problem (people hurt through weapons, therefore decrease availabili
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by fwn 8y ago
There is no universalizable qualitative difference between filters that create a bubble/echo chamber and filters that do not. The word echo chamber and bubble are just meant to transport a value judgement against their existence. Which
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by fwn 8y ago
To reduce the stale opening procedure and introduce greater opening-diversity, there is a great variant specifically designed with that in mind called chess960, or Fischer Random. In case you haven't checked it out: https://
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by fwn 8y ago
This otherwise great article is interrupted by a native ad in favor of gun control in the US. While that might be a worthwhile goal as well, I do not get the need for both sides to cram it into so many unrelated pieces.
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by fwn 9y ago
This is just what the revealed preferences of Facebook users suggest. My friend count did not decrease the slightest since the recent Facebook attention. Close to nobody quits. The article channels the concern with Facebook away from the sp
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by fwn 9y ago
Not sure about the specifics in the US, but those are well defined categories. Wikipedia lists two brief excerpts here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavor#Regulations_on_natural_...
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by fwn 9y ago
That is just a problem of offering good filters. Every bubble other than the own is unpleasant. Social networks need to reproduce the filters we create in real life (social, territorial, etc.) to represent human interaction. Facebook is som
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by fwn 9y ago
Prior to asking for email alternatives one would probably need to define which features and procedures of current email usage are meant to be replaced. I am a heavy email user and I am glad that none of the loads of services pitched as emai
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by fwn 9y ago
True for .us. however: There is currently (as far as I understand) no way to hide whois data for .de (German) domains. So that might get interesting.
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by fwn 9y ago
Hmm. I'm not sure I can follow. The browser not being able to distinguish between essential and non-essential cookies does not change the fact that cookies are and were entirely voluntary.
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by fwn 9y ago
The cookie notice policy led to the worst imaginable actual outcome: A state in which you either accept cookies (incl. third party) by default or you will be haunted by numbing "reminders" that cookies exist. Usually taking large
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by fwn 9y ago
They are also entirely voluntary - which the EU would've known if decision makers had visited their browser settings once.
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by fwn 9y ago
There are several blocklists specifically curated to adress the EU cookie nag: http://prebake.eu/ https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/ https://github.com/r4vi/block-the-eu-cookie-s
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by fwn 9y ago
Contingency. That's just a standard good governance principle.
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by fwn 9y ago
...which is a pretty popular and persistent idea in social sciences and loosely links to cultural capital.
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by fwn 9y ago
Unless they gain traction. Which is the time they will start monetizing their users.
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by fwn 9y ago
But all of that already exists. A million chat apps that also do video calls, todo apps, etc. Even Google photos casually asked me to add my SO so they can view my photos. I think that most people could do all of that adfree without install
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by fwn 9y ago
I think it's very dangerous to add social to a non-social service. Evernote tried adding a chat functionality they, for some reason, named "work chat". No other Evernote user I know wasn't hostile towards this feature.
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by fwn 9y ago
Are you saying that you can not realize the idea that a full enforcement capacity of the law will change people's relationship to law enforcement or do you implicitly say that tsuch potential change is nothing to worry about? Honest qu

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