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by gitaarik 3y ago
Yeah ok, most people won't care, but still a lot of people care, and I think it's good that this kind of information is shared with the public. Maybe it won't have a significant direct impact now, but it will make some people
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by gitaarik 3y ago
From all the comments in this threat it seems a lot of people care about it. Of course HN public is specially tech/nerd oriented, but from the popularity here I think it's not crazy to think that non-HN audience would also care.
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by gitaarik 3y ago
Well, you said it made them look bad. Or did you mean that they aren't doing anything bad but are only making it look bad for each other? Edit: sorry, I meant the parent said that. But I guess you understand it now. Edit 2: To be clear
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by gitaarik 3y ago
If it would already be in their products, there wouldn't be much to pursue, right?
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by gitaarik 3y ago
Well, isn't it good that the public learns more about the bad stuff they're doing?
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by gitaarik 3y ago
He also works in the train
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by gitaarik 3y ago
Aha clear, fair enough. That is what I was wondering, thanks for explaining.
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by gitaarik 3y ago
If Europe doesn't have much leverage, which content will? And still, why would citizens vote for politicians that would make monopolies easier? Of course there's corruption. But how would that work against the laws of another cont
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by gitaarik 3y ago
Or in the Netherlands they at some point obligated companies making commercials for loaning money that they add a message "loaning money costs money". Before that point, there was a booming (sometimes scammy) business regarding th
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by gitaarik 3y ago
Well no, that is why we have laws, and if you break the laws, you get punished. But some companies will always try to push the boundaries. They are just experimenting with how far they can go. Kind of similar to children at a certain age. H
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by gitaarik 3y ago
Isn't this coming out from the politics of the EU? Isn't politics suppose to act on the desires of citizens? (In principle in Democracy). Would there be a lot of citizens that would want huge companies to easily gain a monopoly po
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by gitaarik 3y ago
Why don't we all do that already? Would people that have well knowledge about all the shit Apple has been pulling recently, still buy products of them if they weren't already so vendor locked in?
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by gitaarik 3y ago
And regarding: "One can change settings but one cannot change the default unless edit source and compile. Almost no one does this." There are some popular Firefox forks that have several improvements over security and privacy. Ch
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by gitaarik 3y ago
Telemetry and Google as a default search engine are two different things. Also Telemetry doesn't collect any personal data, it's used for anonymous Firefox usage statistics to improve their product. And it's something Firefox
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by gitaarik 3y ago
Yes, but that was a memory leak, giving access to unauthorized random memory. That is not an intentionally created exploit / backdoor which gives the owner easy access to the victim's system.
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by gitaarik 3y ago
How would you secretly hide something like that in FOSS? And why would that be easier? It's seems to me that it's easier to inject into an existing company than to do all the work yourself. This is what they do with most things as
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by gitaarik 3y ago
What? Wad that in the job application details?
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by gitaarik 3y ago
Maybe you installed some funny extension or messed in about:config? This is usually the cause.
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by gitaarik 3y ago
Vertical tabs are native in Edge? In any case, it has existed in Firefox for a long time before Edge even existed. But I guess you particularly like Edge's implementation. It does sound funny though that someone would prefer Edge becau
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by gitaarik 3y ago
You know Google is known for deliberately making their sites underperform or break in Firefox? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38345858
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by gitaarik 3y ago
If it gets fixed quickly, it was probably an issue with the particular website or a plugin of yours rather than Firefox's issue. People are fast to "conclude" it must be Firefox. You should also test in a private tab with no
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by gitaarik 3y ago
Often people forgot they have installed an obscure exstension in Firefox and that is breaking the site, trying another browser it works, concluding that Firefox must be the problem, while it was the extension. That is also why people usuall
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by gitaarik 3y ago
Never had problems with Zoom and Jitsi in Firefox. Should work fine. I don't think the problem is because Firefox renders sites differently. On imascientist.org.uk I don't see a sign up button, only login.
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by gitaarik 3y ago
Yes this is the reason Firefox can still survive. But it's easy to turn off, giving you easy and real privacy. On Chrome you don't have real privacy.
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by gitaarik 3y ago
Yes please, it seems like you're making stuff up
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by gitaarik 3y ago
I don't see that line anywhere in the original memo
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by gitaarik 3y ago
Yeah and so the phrase "African American" is a typical example of the ignorance of Americans thinking they're the only ones in the world.
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by gitaarik 3y ago
What, do you think they will be insulted? Why would they?
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by gitaarik 3y ago
Creative doesn't mean to consequently manipulate output to match a certain ideology.
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by gitaarik 3y ago
It's not a bug, it's a feature! A bug is when something unintentionally doesn't work or misbehaves. The DEI algorithm is intentionally added as a feature. It just has some output that seems buggy, but is actually because of t

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