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by user812 8y ago
It is fundamentally impossible to know whether we live in a "simulation". The concept itself is a notion connected to contemporary culture based on certain technical knowledge, and thus the definition of what a simulation is isn&#
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by user812 8y ago
But that's essentially was Google is doing: dictating things unilaterally. And that's also how the web was founded. No one agreed to anything. People just started to build. If there isn't a law against it, they are allowed to
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by user812 8y ago
No they filter out ads. Then they give everyone the opportunity to use a Patreon-Style support or view Ads, optionally. Why isn't it ethical to target big Ad-Tech middle men like Google and Facebook and increase efficiency and privacy
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by user812 8y ago
I heard they still ping Google because they also have google ads on their site.
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by user812 8y ago
Recently I deactivated Javascript on Startpage (with uBO) and surprisingly it suddenly loads fast. Believe it or not they are injecting all kinds of ad related JS. I am even questioning their sincerity, since the page is badly optimized for
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by user812 8y ago
Can someone explain to me why it isn't possible to simply give users the option to influence whether an extension can make a request to a remote server? This way one could simply disallow extensions to do anything that isn't happe
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by user812 8y ago
They really should. The time to do this is now. I don't really know why this did not happen already. The only answer I can think of is lack of people with a vision in the management. Mozilla could leverage a user base of 100 million p
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by user812 8y ago
The selection isn't happening on the publisher's side, but on the ad-tech side. Every publisher can enjoy the tech provided by Google, and participate in gaining money from this system, relative to it's popularity. So what we
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by user812 8y ago
English isn't my first language, so I made a translation mistake there.
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by user812 8y ago
The web has become a three-class system: - Creators and tech-savvy people are able to cut out the bloat and enjoy a fast and secure web because they live in rich countries with good infrastructure - The average user. Ironically the first gr
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by user812 8y ago
The quoted link leads to the following study: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0143624415603281... "Temperature and velocity profiles indicate an induced, cooler air breeze in the courtyard; o
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by user812 8y ago
And Hacker News is essentially just a bit of HTML, CSS and lots of words.
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by user812 8y ago
Well, it was kind of humourous, based on the idea that ad-tech will switch to first-party proxies when too many people use Pi-Hole. But on a more serious note, it is simple products like AdGuard DNS which will probably make Ad-Tech sweat mo
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by user812 8y ago
I see pi-hole as the first line of defense. With Pi-hole you can disable an adblocker when something doesn't work and still enjoy a fast web. But Pi-Hole still blocks the majority of ads, so it is possible to use it exclusively if you
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by user812 8y ago
Pi-Hole is beautiful and open-source. As long as it doesn't get too popular, tech savvy people can continue to enjoy network wide content blocking. Consider supporting them (but not too much ;): https://www.patreon.com/
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by user812 8y ago
I wrote elsewhere that Chrome 69 marks a big change for the browser world. Chrome 69 is simply the best. Not for me, but for the average user. The reading and work flow is incredible for casual browsing. The negative reaction on HN is under
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by user812 8y ago
when I compile it on mac, it throws some errors. As a noob, I can't use ungoogled chromium apparently.
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by user812 8y ago
Ironically if Google will indeed switch to Fuchsia or another in-house OS, Android may survive in some form as their biggest competitor.
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by user812 8y ago
It looks like growth started to stagnate somewhere during 2017 - https://pagefair.com/downloads/2016/05/Adblocking-Goes-Mobil... - https://pagefair.com/downloads/2017/01/PageFai
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Phishing Up, Malware Down (Google Safe Browsing Dataset)(transparencyreport.google.com)
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by user812 8y ago
I am only talking about marketshare.
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by user812 8y ago
"With a smarter Chrome, you will be able to do more than just look at a webpage. Imagine searching on Chrome for a singer you just heard, and having Chrome show you not just their bio, but also their upcoming concert near you and where
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by user812 8y ago
When I think about it, no. People make the decision between different ecosystems, and Apple and Google are the biggest. Apple has a tight control over Safari on iOS. Safari has been defeated on Desktop though.
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by user812 8y ago
The new Google Chrome design with version 69 marked the beginning of a new era – Google wants to portray Chrome as something that is way more than a browser. They want you to see it as the primary interface of the web. This is what the aver
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by user812 8y ago
Allowing third-party cookies wasn't a neutral decision to begin with, even though the implications only became clear later.
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by user812 8y ago
If you start a war, you should be prepared to fight for a long time. That's why most browser makers don't even start. Safari did and had to make multiple changes to ITP because criteo was fighting back. It is always necessary to s
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by user812 8y ago
It solves the problem that the majority of firefox users is not blocking trackers, so enabling this at the end of January 2019 in Firefox 65 will protect all Firefox users, which make up around 10-15% of all Desktop web traffic in western c
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by user812 8y ago
I think those are good points, and #2 is important. It's not a coincidence that tracking protection will only come with the first build in 2019. They probably had to rewrite their contract with google.
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by user812 8y ago
I've read somehwere that it is about two questions: - Is Yahoo obliged to pay anything at all? If Yahoo is succesfull, Mozilla will not get anything. - Is Yahoo obliged to pay the full $375 million per year or only the difference betwe
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by user812 8y ago
Actually I am not bitter. I don't really use extensions with Firefox. I only try to give an account of general user sentiment. Of course it's very difficult to get an accurate measure of this sentiment, but I see lots of negative

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