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The webRequest API allowed intercepting any network request in v2. Firefox also has an api for dns resolving. Lastly chrome now has a limited size for content blocking rules. All adding up to more limited blocking.

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It’s not that crazy to use both.

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Every day that passes it will be harder to maintain patches readding this. Who knows but it’s a lame solution.

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Sites are going to move ads to shared domains, now that chrome users are stuck.

PayPal Is Planning an Ad Business Using Data on Its Millions of Shoppers (www.wsj.com)

Wall Street Journal (paywalled) The digital payments company plans to build an ad sales business around the reams of data it generates from tracking the purchases as well as the broader spending behaviors of millions of consumers who use its services, which include the more socially-enabled Venmo app....

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General advice is never use a debit card, use a credit card, it changes theft from a big problem to a manageable one.

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Banks don’t have an ad business like this, though they will have some advertising in general.

They also all, I believe by law, have opt-out for all third party sharing of data for this purpose.

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It was written 25 years ago and untouched since probably.

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It just depends on the complexity or specific area an extension touches. The shell is continually changing somewhere.

Last version was a big deal for JavaScript itself changing, so all extensions needed some simple updates.

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My colleagues are starting to use AI, it just makes their code worse and harder to review. I honestly can’t imagine that changing, AI doesn’t actually understand anything.

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Probably. I'm just not seeing it actually doing any logic or problem solving. It’s a pattern matching machine today. A new technology could certainly happen.

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You don’t have to be a fan boy to have an opinion. Windows is not user friendly in any way. People just know it. My Linux desktops are more robust and hands off than my Windows ones. Of course that won’t apply to all situations.

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The pi is very weak. Just get a normal desktop. They have small form factor ones.

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Because they are the long term incumbent, with an effective monopoly, and endless pockets of money…

The OS is not special or great.

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Both arches are little endian btw.

Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads (www.techradar.com)

Netflix has managed to annoy a good number of its users with an announcement about an upcoming update to its Windows 11 (and Windows 10) app: support for adverts and live events will be added, but the ability to download content is being taken away....

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You must be a time traveler because Windows phones don't exist. This is about normal Windows.

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Windows phone died 8 years ago. None of it is supported or used.

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Hmm? 2015 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Phone

Its looong dead.

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They will be replaced by Dollar Generals.

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That just makes no sense to do, modern storage is write limited. As long as you used encryption the old bits mean nothing to anyone but you.

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Causing annoyance to the user directs frustration towards the regulator and not the implementor.

Apple is doing this in the EU for example to “protest” recent regulations.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_panic

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Thats great for GM and Ford shareholders. It just means Americans can’t afford cars.

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The cost of cars has not scaled with incomes. EVs are also much cheaper to manufacture yet because of lack of competition they only sell luxury cars. Nissan admittedly tried but I think that was just too early to market with a mediocre product.

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This is all true. I just genuinely believe more EVs to market would be good for the consumer over the coming years.

Why Your VPN May Not Be As Secure As It Claims (krebsonsecurity.com)

Virtual private networking (VPN) companies market their services as a way to prevent anyone from snooping on your Internet usage. But new research suggests this is a dangerous assumption when connecting to a VPN via an untrusted network, because attackers on the same network could force a target’s traffic off of the protection...

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See also UseGateway.

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The maximum age is 400 days in Chrome.

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It just comes across hypocritical. He demands everyone else be open, hardware vendors, video hosts, yet himself wants to be closed.

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And Spotify pays them…?

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The web is just heavy, no OS changes that. It will work fine but that ram could be filled by a few heavy sites.

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Thats a very broad question. My general thought is don’t install Linux to use Windows software. It’s gotten pretty good, to nearly same performance, but I wouldn’t count on it.

Why is replacement for home device controls so complicated?

I recently learned about Home Assistant here on Lemmy. It looks like a replacement for Google Home, etc. However, it requires an entire hardware installation. Proprietary products just use a simple app to manage and control devices, so can someone explain why a pretty robust dedicated device is necessary as a replacement? The...

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It’s just a minor convenience, not sure why that’s confusing.

I can set the temperature from anywhere, that’s nice.

Court upholds New York law that says ISPs must offer $15 broadband (arstechnica.com)

Trade groups claimed the state law is preempted by former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai's repeal of net neutrality rules. Pai's repeal placed ISPs under the more forgiving Title I regulatory framework instead of the common-carrier framework in Title II of the Communications Act....

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Caps are allowed but the FCC has shown interest in regulating it. Maybe some decade.

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VR can work but is overall a buggy and less supported platform.

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Im not making a stance on it but I read more to it.

It seems very focused on “social media” as in software that is about users sharing their own content with other users with 1,000,000 monthly active users.

Those that support it on tiktok likely would for other similar services.

The part that stands out to me is it mentions real time communication. So Telegram probably counts.

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WhatsApp is American owned. You may be thinking of WeChat?

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That’s today because “full self driving” doesn’t exist yet but when it does?

Based on a true story (lemmy.world)

My OS is on a 512gb M.2 drive, but the main storage on my laptop was a 1TB HDD, it started making noise about 2 weeks ago so I backed everything up onto a 1TB SanDisk USB SSD. This afternoon it got very clicky when I booted it up after work and icons for a few games I had stored on it, like KSP and YUZU, disappeared from the...

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Raid is a concept, zfs is a type of software raid.

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The domain is a public part of TLS itself, SNI, for now.

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Arch is cool and all, but why in the world is that your choice for nontechnical users… it is not robust and isn’t meant to be.

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Wish you the best, but its a bad choice. The AUR isn’t safe, as-in reliable between updates.

Valve makes snapshots into their versioned atomic OS, so its safe. Plus a few custom packages, they don’t just use Arch and their choice isn’t relevant IMO.

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Qwant primarily uses Bing. Every single concern is the same.

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systemd-resolved is an independent binary and entirely optional, just developed by the same project.

That said, it’s good. Supported DoT and DNSSEC early, easy to configure. No complaints for simple usage.

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I really doubt anything escaped the browser, but websites can make nefarious connections, sure.

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Fedora enables it on all systems with <4GB (maybe a bit less I forget). It’s trivial to enable/disable it and see if its helpful for your usage.

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A lot of apps still have issues and it just takes one personally important one to make the whole thing not worth it.

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They make number go up, stock buybacks.

Microsoft is once again injecting pop-up ads into Google Chrome on Windows in a bid to get people to switch to Bing (www.theverge.com)

The software giant first introduced malware-like pop-up ads last year with a prompt that appeared over the top of other apps and windows. After pausing that notification to address “unintended behavior,” the pop-ups have returned again on Windows 10 and 11....

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the only places they get bit for their behavior are the European countries.

Even then Apple has been barely bothered. The DMA is the first big test, Apple has clearly not complied in spirit, lets see if that’s allowed and nothing changes.

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They would block Chrome entirely if they could get away with it. macOS is so small compared to iOS which already did, so not worth the backlash.

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