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by user812 8y ago
Google is a good example what can happen with lots of money productively. But Google, in contrast to Mozilla, has to work hard to innovate and their income is always a reflection of how good they are and they have a management with a long-t
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by user812 8y ago
"...market share has dropped from 14% in 2014 to today's woeful 5%. [...] Meanwhile, Mozilla has flourished financially. The most recent "State of Mozilla" report says that in 2016 various deals with search engines broug
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by user812 8y ago
AMP certainly has benevolent side effects for the user. Google is obviously adding tremendous value to what they offer. It was a genius move by Google to come up with AMP. How can you solve the problem of an ad-infested web if you make most
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by user812 8y ago
"...in what way?" First, by crushing all the smaller players in ad-tech that can't keep up with all the criteria needed to be included in AMP (Ads are very limited on AMP). Fundamentally, by essentially controlling how conten
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by user812 8y ago
Tech is always something that can be solved. It doesn't change the fact that AMP is mostly about Google et al. gaining control over the web. - What you call ideological is a mere fact; google is by definition not an open source movemen
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by user812 8y ago
Is this Google getting desparate they will soon be seen as the monolithic behemoth they are already? AMP will definitely backfire in the hands of Google, but for an open standard the model itself shouldn't be tied to their incentives i
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by user812 8y ago
I'm a mod of a small subreddit and during the last 3 months around 10-15% of our visitors used the redesign, 20% browse on mobile, 30% use an App, and the rest use the old design. Engagement is highest in the Apps.
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by user812 8y ago
I'm a big fan of that idea. Imho the beauty of your BAT system (the way it is envisioned) is it's independency from the current model of monetizing the web, which is ads, gradually evolving towards direct transmission between publ
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by user812 8y ago
If you don't use a very sophisticated blocking system (for example uBlock Origin in medium mode + pihole) the data is being collected independently of serving ads. While it will be used for Realtime Bidding and ad-retargeting, the data
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by user812 8y ago
And that is why the argument is always based on morality: "You should not do it, because it is bad" - which proves your point. When someone publishes something on the web it is free by definition, and by law. Publishers can chose
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by user812 8y ago
I have a general question if you don't mind. I use Firefox Beta. Why is Firefox going the route of a manual blacklist (disconnect) instead of working on some kind of programmatic machine-learning/somewhat intelligent third-party s
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by user812 8y ago
Thanks for the clarification. What surprises me the most is that not only Firefox but also my Safari Browser passes all those tests when ITP is enabled.
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by user812 8y ago
What if the box is empty? JS is allowed. (Edit: I guess the culprit is "third party cookies blocked by default") So wouldn't a better test be about a third party that was used in a first party context before? Since FPI goes b
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by user812 8y ago
Go into your FF profile, open SiteSecurityServiceState.txt - it will show every HSTS entry separated into firstparty domains. Similar, in the storage folder in your FF profile you can see that every firstparty website has it's own fold