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Oh man, this always Madden's me when a company takes away some option in the name of simplifying for the majority of users.

Put it on a screen called advanced options or something, even about:config, and let us decide!

That is, if you're really not just manipulating your users.

Ubuntu's (failed) Kickstarter raised 12.8 million to build a phone which seems like a lot

Purism raised something like 2.5 and are using it to develop their first phone, and it seems to be going great, on track for April release.

Ubuntu etc are making money and doing good work.

While that's great, I think you're right. That for example, GNOME releases don't have nearly as much goodies as say Mac OS, because they're working with drastically less money and employees.

Take Firefox OS or Ubuntu touch. The amount of money being pumped into iOS and Android must be absolutely incredible. How do these open source vendors compete with the billions of platform investment from these giants?

They just end up with an interior product, so they end up with no market share.

Some bright lights are Ubuntu and duckduckgo, they're profitable and have their niches.

I think I'm suggesting they band together because that can only increase adoption amongst them all - if for example Firefox had duckduckgo as default, and Linux had Firefox as default, that would help those services quite a bit.

I guess though, that if Firefox is targeting mass adoption, they'll have more luck with Google as default. Which is sad.

Is it just me who wishes all the organisations supporting user rights banded together and hit the market as a viable 3rd ecosystem of products?

All the Linux vendors, all the distributed social media (PeerTube, mastodon, hubzilla), all the private search engines like duckduckgo, all the open source hardware like Purism...

Imagine them doing an EU and pooling all their resources to produce a coherent yet distributed, open and free ecosystem with a browser by Firefox, search by DDG, OS by Linux, phone by Purism, etc...

They could cross-support each other's efforts, promote eacother etc.

I'd live there instead of Google/Microsoft/Facebook world.

I've tried containers, and I really want to switch to Firefox because I support their aims, but I found containers really clunky.

It might have been the fact that they were tabs in the same window, and it made it harder for me to control/organise/understand what was in what container.

Especially when opening new tabs.

I can't remember the details but I remember finding it fiddly. Maybe I'll give it another go.

I wonder if you're in your own filter bubble.

As in, if some full blown NRA guy searched gun rights, what would he get?

I get this too.

It's bizarre to see "video you watched 4 times 5 years ago" on your homepage. Every day.

I was searching for an exact phrase in quotes the other day, which happened to be close - but not the same - as a popularly monetisable phrase.

The entire results were full of the other phrase and not the one I searched for.

I kinda hate AI.

(Because it's dumb. Do what I told you, not what you think I want)

I'd strongly suggest people create separate users in the browser, one for daily, one for Google, one for Facebook. This way in my regular browsing there's no Facebook or Google cookies reporting on what websites I visit.

And with this new change, presumably in your daily profile, your browser remains signed out also.

It's really easy and doesn't impact at all on workflow, if you want your Gmail you just click the user button, and click Google. You could even set that user's homepage to Gmail.

That said, you could also just switch to Firefox or Brave.

(Copy pastaing myself. With an addendum: I don't know if this will actually result in less of your private data compromised, but it seems plausible)

Hey it does too.

Now I can't remember why I went back to Chrome

Holy shit finally.

Why didn't they do this straight away? It's extremely bothersome having one app scroll differently to the others

True, I think it's almost impossible to be really anonymous without something like Tor, and I suspect not even then

But if you want to be signed out of fb and goog in your regular browsing, I think it's the way to go

That and I hear Firefox has a Facebook container, which is probably the same approach

I'm pretty interested in the real products that millions of people buy that are actually useless.

Like all the cosmetics and supplements that don't actually improve anything.

I really want to use Firefox on Android, but I need a couple things:

Desperately need the scrolling in Firefox to feel like scrolling in the rest of the apps.

And I would very much like easy tab switching by swiping across the title bar thing, and the new tab/new incognito/back button behaviour.

Pls Moz pls

I'd strongly suggest people create separate users in the browser, one for daily, one for Google, one for Facebook.

This way in my regular browsing there's no Facebook or Google cookies reporting on what websites I visit.

It's really easy and doesn't impact at all on workflow, if you want your Gmail you just click the user button, and click Google. You could even set that user's homepage to Gmail.

The global banking system is used by drastically more people than Bitcoin.

And I expect the transactions per person of the global banking system is orders of magnitude higher.

Energy use per transaction for Bitcoin seems much, much higher, but I don't have numbers obviously.

But hopefully lightning helps.

If that's the case, I'm not into it. It's not sustainable. What an incredible waste of resources.

And presumably the energy cost correlates to the usage of the currency?

How can it possibly become anything like widely used if it's so pricey?

(Come to think of it, one way is the lightning network. Which doesn't use the blockchain for almost everything: https://lightning.network/)

Is there any work being done to make Bitcoin not consume all that energy?

It's hard to support when it's so wasteful of a critical resource.

Are they trying to go proof of stake?

Not weird, just shitty

The most prominent results should be he most relevant results, not the ones who kiss the most ass

I know the formula is mostly about relevance, but ass kissing shouldn't even be in there

I gotta say, the only difference I've noticed with the GPDR is I've got one more annoying popup to click.

I think it's supposed to allow me to deny cookies or customise them, but enough sites have just looked through to some huge unusable page when I click "more info" that I don't bother anymore.

Look at this hilarious list of amp caches, showing what Google considers a decentralised standard https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/caches.jso...

I hate how I can't see the real address without two clicks, and you have to scroll all the way to the top of what might be a massive article to make the bar appear

These points are critical.

The fact that you have to surrender full control of your own site and content to be featured by Google is criminal.

They don't own the web.

They could improve their indexing to handle more of the web, but instead they're trying to shift the cost of indexing to people who publish on the web. The small guy. Not the near trillion dollar company.

Wait who?

I had trouble with Fedora but got Ubuntu working

I'd include the Gigabyte Aero 15X.

Look at the specs on this bad boy:

CPU: 2.2GHz Intel Core i7-8750H (hexa-core, 9MB cache, up to 4.1GHz with Turbo Boost)

Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 (Max-Q, 8GB GDDR5 RAM); Intel UHD Graphics 630

RAM: 16GB DDR4 (2,666MHz, 8GB x 2)

Screen: 15.6-inch UHD 4K (3,840 x 2,160) IPS LCD (wide viewing angle, anti-glare, X-Rite Pantone certified)

Storage: 512GB SSD (M.2 NVMe PCIe)

Ports: 2 x USB 3.1 Gen1 (Type-A), 1 x USB 3.1 Gen2 (Type-A), 1 x USB-C Thunderbolt 3, HDMI 2.0, mini-DisplayPort 1.4, RJ-45 Ethernet, SD card reader, headphone-out jack

Weight: 4.49 pounds (2.04kg)

Size: 14 x 9.8 x 0.74 inches (356.4 x 250 x 18.9mm; W x D x H)

Also the Dell XPS 15 is usually considered a MacBook Pro equivalent (or better)

I must say, just last night I had a bit of coding to start and it seemed like I was being asked to kill a kitten or something, the thought was so incredibly depressing.

I forced myself, through the resistance, just to start.

I said I'd do it for an hour then I could stop. Note that this was beginning a new, big task. If I was in the middle of it I probably wouldn't have had such a huge urge to resist it.

Anyway, once I started it was cripplingly painful for about 5 minutes. Then I couldn't stop for the next few hours - I think because the thing I was working on was incrementally rewarding - every 5 minutes or so I could see the progress I was making.

Also, it helped a lot that I put on an interesting podcast that makes me feel great.

I suppose my point is that this guy is pretty correct, at least for me: it was pain I was avoiding, and just starting was the biggest hurdle.

I'm a bit ADD-ish, I think, so YMMV.

I assume no one read this since it's behind a pay wall

A ThinkPad could probably handle the lunar dust :)

What strikes me the most is how impotent many of us feel in resisting being tracked and profiled so extensively.