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by user17843 7y ago
Thank you for speaking out here! I hope that mozilla employees manage to free themselves from their leadership and change the organization from within. It's possible, even though most employees who could change something have decided t
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by user17843 7y ago
quite a caricature they have become. It was still different when Occupy Wallstreet happened.
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I think this is basically the GDPR rules, but I would need to look into the details more.
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by user17843 7y ago
Google is not allowed to collect PII data of users who visit google services without registering. So everytime you delete your cookies, you are a new user, and they also are not allowed to log the ip address of non-users indefinitely.
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by user17843 7y ago
I just implied it is different because the industry was so young, it is solidified now, thus resembling other industries. (i.e. in the corporate world the hierarchies in big tech now resemble the hierarchies in big [insert any other industr
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by user17843 7y ago
The biggest irony I see here is Microsoft being unable to gain control of their IE user base in any meaningful way. We still see this today with the fragmentation of IE and Edge.
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of course there was oversight. Those with experience had privileged access. Basically meritocracy. Today innovation and movement is stiffled by large corprate and legal structures where engineers only recieve commands.
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by user17843 7y ago
This is not comparable imho. No medical or financial company has this vibrant engineering IT culture like the web startups 20 years ago had. Everything was new and exciting, and things moved foreward exactly due to the flexibility of all in
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by user17843 7y ago
Yes, I agree. Within 1-2 years Reddit will be a collectivist utopia where controversial topics are banned outright and everyone who does not conform to the majority opinion is being made invisible through downvoting. This is already the cas
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by user17843 7y ago
The solution to a social problem can be social in nature. If you apply this to the OP blog post you can see that the desire to get away from IRC to "safer" products comes from the desire to deal with the social problem in a social
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in the nightly version of the browser you can.
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Will that also help with the 10% or so users that are not on up-to-date versions? It looks like the user base is still a bit fractionated.