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Firefox 3D View(developer.mozilla.org)
1 points by surround 5y ago|1 comments
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by surround 5y ago
Brave is chromium-based.
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by surround 5y ago
How come entire operating systems are able to be developed on community-supported efforts (like Debian) but browsers can only be developed by monoliths like Google and Apple (and Mozilla, which has ~750 employees and makes most of its money
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by surround 5y ago
The top submission says it has 14 comments, but then you click on it and it only has three. I also find it hard to believe that submissions on this site are already accumulating >700 points, surpassing most HN submissions. On top of that
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by surround 5y ago
> Not true, FireFox and Safari have had them off by default for over a year now. Not quite. They will block some 3rd party tracking cookies that fall on their tracking blacklist. If you want to block all 3rd party cookies you have to e
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by surround 5y ago
> I'd really rather this be either something that's totally not understandable by the user (e.g. ?saf=1), or something that is clearly understandable (e.g. ?appshareafact=1). I guess they decided to go with "totally not un
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by surround 5y ago
Changes like this are normally discussed and voted on by the community, right? Could someone link to the discussion where this decision was made, so we can better understand it?
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by surround 5y ago
Firefox already the same thing for html5 canvas [1], enabled I think via privacy.resistFingerprinting (in about:config). A similar feature would make sense for webGL. In the meantime, power users can disable webGL entirely via webgl.disable
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by surround 5y ago
She might have been experiencing the effects of placebo. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26324219
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by surround 5y ago
Don't sweat it. All you really need is Firefox + uBlock Origin. And even without uBo, Firefox blocks some trackers by default. Privacy badger is largely useless ever since they got rid of heuristics. ClearURLs is useful, but you'd
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by surround 5y ago
Brave is Chromium-based and suffers from all of the limitations stated in the parent article. (Except for CNAME cloaking. However, their CNAME uncloaking only applies to their built-in tracking protection. AFAIK, if you use uBo on Brave it
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by surround 5y ago
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26745227
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by surround 5y ago
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26745227
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by surround 5y ago
If we thought of cameras as human eyes and microphones as human ears then maybe we wouldn't be as comfortable with internet-enabled doorbell cams, or internet-enabled smart speakers in our homes, always watching, always listening.
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by surround 6y ago
What of this version, which sends 99 random numbers along with your real number? https://www.thenewseachday.com/private-facebook-phone-number...
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by surround 6y ago
Despite it's infamy, Yahoo Answers was the largest Q&A website for a long time and is a huge part of our digital heritage. Soon, it will be gone forever. The ArchiveTeam will be doing all they can back up as much as possible before
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by surround 6y ago
I have. It was very interesting, but I don't think it mentioned that McDonald's doesn't make most of its money from food.
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by surround 6y ago
> McDonald's doesn't really make its money selling food either I would like to learn more about McDonald's business model. How is this possible?
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by surround 6y ago
> First, your SoC (System on a Chip) manufacturer (usually Qualcomm) has to get hold of it and customize Android for a particular SoC, adding drivers and other hardware support. Then, that build goes to your phone manufacturer (Fairphone
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by surround 6y ago
The article requires you to enter an email address to continue reading. Submitting a fake address works just fine.
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by surround 6y ago
"The violence Calvin inflicts on snowmen could alone earn it an R rating" sounds toungue-in-cheek to me. Regardless, the author immediately it was a "classic parenting mistake" in the next sentence, and lets their kid re
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by surround 6y ago
No, ketchup is shear-thinning, meaning it’s less solid when under stress.
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by surround 6y ago
So the decryption key contained in the url after the “#”? Is it never sent to the server, and instead only used to decrypt the message in-browser?
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by surround 6y ago
An NFT is like a piece of paper titled with the name of the artwork and signed by the artist. Meanwhile, the artwork hangs in a museum and you have no control over it. Imagine going to the museum and showing people this paper. “Look, I boug
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by surround 6y ago
Wait, what? They have always been sharing data with advertisers. What, exactly, is the change?
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by surround 6y ago
> we stumbled across Notify: a simple Shopify plugin that would pop up at the bottom of a website, displaying a purchase another customer had recently made. Not only are these kind of pop ups incredibly annoying and an invasion of the pu
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Download the Entire Wikimedia Database(dumps.wikimedia.org)
151 points by surround 6y ago|74 comments
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by surround 6y ago
Let’s say there’s a Facebook group of moms that enjoy using essential oils. Imagine that a study gets posted to the group showing that essential oils are ineffective at treating some disease. If I made a comment in that community about how
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Firefox sponsored topsites proxy – Weak/Misleading Anonymity Claims(github.com)
3 points by surround 6y ago|0 comments
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by surround 6y ago
The low-end 2019 Nissan Versa has hand crank windows, manual locks, manual transmission... yet still has a touch screen, because state law requires a back-up camera.

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