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Huh. Never knew that was a thing!

Hm, interesting. Did you report this to their bug tracker? They're quite responsive and cases like this help them finding edge cases.

My biggest use-case, youtube, works great, and most other sites work as well.

Different tech, different failure modes.

> it sometimes renders wrong

Is close to equivalent.

I think for the feature of wrapping, it is useful enough + just typing a->backspace->" is easy enough that I think it's a net win

It does work tho. Just not consistently lol

Really all I wanted was uBlock and that works.

That being said, after being my daily driver for almost a year, I went back to safari about a month ago with Wipr. 3x speedup and battery efficiency. Unfortunately, it became buggier instead of less buggy :(

Still use it on mac tho - vertical tabs are a game-changer.

Ads of that kind tell me they need ads, which tells me they’re probably not doing too well, so I’ll avoid them

For what it’s worth, any beta I’ve tried out in the past slurped my battery and made my phone act like a hand warmer.

We're just going deeper and deeper into attention-grabbing displays; we now even have ANIMATED screens next to the ROADS in the Netherlands. Flashing, showing texts like "WATCH OUT! We have a new product!".

I have epilepsy. It's managed, I mean, I'm allowed to drive again. But what about people who don't have it managed (for some no meds will work)? They're just f'd when they walk down the street and Nike NEEDED to switch the screen every 0.2s?

If I can in _any_ way inhibit their ability to grow, I will.

If I need your product, I'll find it. I'm against any and all ads - I know it's unrealistic, but I'll do everything in my power to lower the amount of ads I see or to be a nuisance to them.

Really don't care about morality in this case.

Nah, you did. They just gladly facilitated your tendency to procrastinate. At any moment you can decide to not use them. I know it’s hard, struggling with it myself. But don’t act defeated, you aren’t a victim. You’re free in your actions. Besides, the feeling it once gave will never be reached again, it’s like chasing a high.

Next time you see a digital ad display, look for the little black circle on top of it. Yes, they do. Feel free to put a sticker over it.

Could you elaborate?

Why not, actually?

FYI long-form is possible since a few years, and actively used by a lot of people.

Absolutely! Speculate all you want. If, however, you want to speculate anything other than what I’ve clearly stated (I have nothing against Trans people + I don’t want to go on another unrelated/irrelevant detour) plus the fact I have to wait an increasingly larger amount of time to be ABLE to reply in this thread (currently 30+ minutes), that’s more telling about you than me, like you’re trying to fit me into some compartment that you’ve put loads of others in. It’s not that deep.

I’ll stop engaging on this point here, now. :)

Oh wow, didn’t know that. I never left X but saw a lot of talk about BS when the transition happened. I just assumed it was a clone of Twitter with mostly the people who left.

That sucks tho. I’m not against other places existing if it makes people feel better.

Nice. Good discussion.

That seems to be a fair summary of what I’ve said, yes.

I’ve already gone too far, as evidenced by us even having this discussion. I don’t want to discuss such private matters with you, here. I’ll have to explain myself over and over again and open up another can of worms that I’m simply not wanting to open. It is what it is.

They go to the bottom, behind a button you have to press to reveal them.

I think this might be a reaction to the previous moderation which seemed to be extremely biased. The moderation that’s currently in place seems much less so, however some people seem to argue it’s now the same, just the other way around.

In my opinion a free-for-all is what the online world needs. But it’s just that, an opinion. Feel free to not participate. I’m interested in what you do participate in, except for HN, though - is there something better that doesn’t ban me for defending Elon, for instance? To put question marks by global policy? etc etc. That’s at least as popular as X is? We can just talk to huge names there, and call them out on their bullshit, if they spew it. That’s unbeatable.

This is not something I want to discuss here, as we’re completely off-topic already.

Rest assured I have nothing against Trans people.

That seems like a weird take. If 80% of the internet is spam (which it very well could be), is spam the internet?

I guess censorship is a popular thing now on HN. Never thought I would see all you people advocating FOR censorship. I’m happy Elon seems unmoving in his stance on this. We need to progress.

I actually doubt that.

Also.. I want to know: people say that Tesla owners should sell their card if they don’t want them keyed.

Who should they sell them to?

It’s interesting to me that we can have such different views of the same platform.

“Garbage”. “Supersewer”. I simply don’t see what you mean. Of course there IS garbage, but you’d actively have to seek it out. You’d have to scroll down all the replies to get to the shit. If you want to see that, it’s there, but if it doesn’t have value, it stays there. Up top are the sensible replies and discussion threads.

We can keep talking, but if you don’t want to see it, you’ll never see it.

I’ve already addressed the first part of your comment in another comment.

I don’t think there’s a million things you can’t say. I see tons of posts criticizing Elon. But I also see tons of people defending him in replies. This is what we should want. Discussion. Open talking. And that includes “right wing nutjobs”.

If the vision you’re seemingly okay with censoring is so damaging that you can’t fight it with words, is the opposing vision strong enough?

I’m very capable of that last statement actually. It’s also called “being a conspiracy theorist” if you do so with people/entities that others agree with.

You could also turn it around - so if you support Israel and be outspoken in support of Jews but reply “interesting” to a few posts completely wipes out support?

This comes down to opinion (and, be honest, wanting something to be true). Have the opinion you want. Just know that if the media stands behind you and agrees with you, it’s in no way confirmation of your opinion. It’s just the opinion most well-suited for the media’s investors.

It’s hard at first, but to realize that the opinion you hear most is NOT always the opinion most people have is golden. Suddenly it makes sense why stuff happens in the world.

I’ve never mentioned “because it’s a US company” so I’ll ignore that part of the message.

Sticks & stones is a general thing that’s missing in a lot of people nowadays. Trying to protect everyone from bad words will only make them react more when they inevitably will encounter said bad words.

As for the rest of the “what if”s, I guess we’ll see what happens when it happens. As of right now, my For You page is filled with science, discussions, tech, friends, well-known people having normal discussions with “plebs”, etc.

If you don’t find value in the platform, simply don’t use it. Use Bluesky if you want.

I have no idea what you’re trying to say here.

Are you banned? Is your post deleted? No? Then it’s not censorship.

Again, if you don’t match with the vision, don’t use the platform. But you have to accept that the platform exists, is very popular, and allows free speech, and you can’t change that.

I would like not to be talked to that way, but I agree that it shouldn’t be a bannable offence (which it isn’t).

But this comes down to opinion. Would love to discuss the 99% other content of my comment though.