dan

Shit no! You know what you can’t change if/when they inevitably leak your data? Your fucking hand.

I had one. Those controllers were incredibly cheap and plasticky.

I mean. Sorta.

When you use some service you have some expectation that they’ll treat you fairly and predictably. Sure their Eula let’s them do whatever the fuck they want legally but that doesn’t change the fact that if they opt take certain actions (like arbitrary taking people’s usernames) then they risk losing user trust.

If the admin just took your username one day would you just quietly accept it? What if they edited or deleted your comments? Would you just shrug and say “well it’s their site they can do what they want” and just walk away?

Look what happened when Spez got caught editing posts on Reddit, for example. Massive user outcry.

Dude’s allowed to be annoyed about it.

This. Websites should use standard mechanisms by default, and optionally layer user preference stuff on top.

Every time you override some default browser behaviour you risk breaking workflows, harming interoperability and accessibility, etc.

OP would be better served with a grease/tamper/violentmonkey script to alter links (or inject a base target tag, whatever) than lobbying developers to change things. (Or, yknow, learning to use the middle mouse button).

With the big chunk of alumunium? I don't think they actually improve cooling (certainly, the fan doesn't run any less), they just put the heat in a place where you can accidentally rest your fingers on it.

It's not subscription business models that will be affected by this, it's ad-supported ones.

The problem is you're running Chrome now*. Google are in the process of severely restricting the mechanism by which adblockers work in Chrome and its derived browsers - so it's happening now. The only viable alternative left is Firefox, if Google manage to get this proposal past then there's nothing stopping ad-supported sites from forcing you to use Chrome or another browser they know they can serve you ads with. Those types of sites are already comfortable with aggressive anti-adblock tech so no doubt they'll be comfortable with this too.

Switch to Firefox!

* statistically speaking!

You can trademark dictionary words.

You can't trademark anything too generic, like you might struggle to trademark a drink called "drink" or something (although you might be able to trademark, eg, shoes called "drink"!), but there's nothing stopping you trademarking words.

Oh, and, Adobe is an english word, too.

Yeah I’ve noticed the same thing. I’ve been deliberately trying to do a bit of Firefox advocacy for a while (cos I honestly believe increasing its userbase is our only chance to avoid google ruining the internet). But yes every time there’s a bunch of people confidently complaining about how bad/slow Firefox is and advocating for brave or chrome.

Initially I thought it was just a bit of historical baggage but it happens very consistently and aggressively so I’ve had the same thought.

That’s an amusing name but they take a photoshop competitor to market using that name they’re going to lose a trademark dispute in milliseconds.

Problem is the effort to find a vulnerability and exploit it is often higher than the effort required to patch it. Because by its nature a browser and the server it talks to are internet connected, Google will be able to revoke keys for older exploited versions at will. As long as it’s well-engineered I think there’s a good chance they’ll be able to keep that secure.

Though I’m sure there will be some successful approaches to ad blocking etc but if something like this gains traction it could completely change the internet. If enough people are running browsers like this then sites could effectively be able to kill off competing browsers that aren’t restricted.

I think the key is to not let it happen in the first place, and boycott browsers that implement stuff like this.

The point of the proposal is to allow servers to be sure the software (ie browser) running on the device is what it says it is, and take away the ability to spoof what browser you’re running (which is currently fairly trivial).

So if someone makes a browser that doesn’t allow adblockers and always shows ads, the server can do things like only serve content to that browser.

Pi with Kodi on it is pretty good.