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birthdaydogon FCC aims to reinstate net neutrality after us Democrats gain control of panel

It's predictable from the title. HN is an intensely conservative site.

birthdaydogon Ask HN: Why do search engines not let you blacklist spam domains?

I think people are right that the motivation is profit, but I'm not convinced it's to manipulate you in any way. I don't think driving you towards SEO'd blog spam is really all that profitable to google.

My guess is that it's because it's an abusable feature, and that means hiring human moderators for it.

birthdaydogon Mozilla says Chrome’s latest feature enables surveillance

"Sorry! Looks like something went wrong. In order to use our site you'll have to enable idle tracking. This helps us improve our software for customers like you!"

birthdaydogon FaceTime on the web requires Chrome or Edge, no mention of Firefox

I use both Firefox and Jitsi, but I gotta say, Jitsi has horribly buggy Firefox support.

birthdaydogon Apple: Apps should not require users to opt into tracking to access content

This is exactly whataboutism.