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DDG's CEO has a shady background. It's not as privacy centric as they claim to be.

I sometimes do computer forensics for clients and you can be sure that you leave traces. You'd need to wipe out the area of the disk over and over again to fully remove it (sometimes it'll still remain despite that, for undisclosed reasons).

Great, we're replacing a slow, dynamic, interpreted (sometimes JIT'd) language with another even slower!

A VM inside a VM.

Eventually people are going to write C# in browser? All NPM packages made available in Python and C#? All PyPI packages in browser?

Active X plugins are back people!

Gravity is the negative acceleration force.

Pay for a windows PC like you would pay for a Mac. Get Razor (expensive but also good looking and high performance), or Lenovo Thinkpad/Ideapad (best price to performance, don't buy any other). Buy at-least 16gigs of ram, min i7 or i9 processor and a good nvidia gpu (1050 or 1060 min). You'll be set for at-least the next five years unless Moore's law on singled threaded performance starts to get on track.

Any processor prior to 2014 is old. And any processor after 2018 that isn't a quad core is also old in my opinion.

My Windows PC is fast and its a breeze to work on. Just don't cheap out on a good device. They're worth it.

If the engines were shut down, the acceleration would be instantly negative. The decay happens faster, no shutdown until it hits zero.

> What was the exploit?

Just file a security issue on bugs.chromium.org with demo/instructions. If it's a good one, they'll pay good.

I don't wanna give it out since it's publicly linked to my twitter and I've bad mouthed Apple here... (I don't publicly speak against them for obvious reasons)

I can confirm this! Back in 2017, I was 17 and found a flaw that affected the privacy of all browsers and required a web standards change. Google/Chromium (Andrew R. Whalley) paid me a good bounty for that, but Apple (mac, ios, iphone, watch) didn't pay. I didn't expect Mozilla to pay obviously since they were non profit.

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>What you're claiming is false. Cloudflare has over 200 PoPs; in your own name servers, you can use the Cloudflare Resolver's IP (which will be a "close to the user" IP, not 1.1.1.1) to do geotargeting and serve from your closest IP address/server.

What if my server is closer than cloudflare? Why is cloudflare artificially limiting?

I host my name server's myself. If Mozilla is really doing this, they're misguided. All this does is make it impossible to serve requests from nearest webserver. You are getting the ip address anyways, so why do this? This means if I get someone from netherlands I'd have to redirect their requests from www.example.com to nl.example.com or buy an ipv4 block, set up anycast and then serve from the closest ipaddress/server. The end result is same. I'll always get the end user's ip address unless they use a VPN or something.

This is a stupid decision by Mozilla. Too bad Firefox users when visiting websites making their own CDN's without anycast/country level redirects will see much slower sites.

> It's not a lie. Cloudflare is the nameserver, and the CDN. So after resolution the end user still has just a Cloudflare IP.

> In 2011 Google wrote an IETF draft to send Client IP information using the EDNS0 extension and this is usually called ‘edns-client-subnet’. As a DNS client, it means that a truncated version of your IP address will be added into the DNS request. The DNS server will use this truncated IP address to make a more informed decision in how it responds so that you can be connected to the most optimal server. This standard is promoted by the Faster Internet initiative and already adopted by some leading vendors.

Because it is designed to keep privacy, the sender has the freedom to limit the client IP information. Instead of sending a full IP address, the DNS server is able to send partial information such as /24 only. For instance, if your IP address is 66.214.81.22, the DNS server will only expose the first three octets, so 66–214–81. Armed with the real IP address of the querying device, the DNS server can now come up with a much more accurate response. With this more intelligent routing, customers have a better Internet experience with lower latency and faster speeds. Best of all, this integration is being done using an open standard that is available for any company to integrate into their own platform.

source: https://engineering.salesforce.com/why-is-edns-important-for...

Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 for consumers kills EDNS "edns-client-subnet" and instead offers the ip of the nearest cloudflare server to the user even if the website is not using cloudflare. This means your website can not ever serve content faster then cloudflare even if you could potentially be faster.

This is the reason why many internet archives do not allow access to cloudflare client dns (1.1.1.1) users as a form of protest.

BTW, Cloudflare allows you to get informed about the end user's ip via a "x-forwarded-for" header.

Cloudflare is harmful to independent CDN's. They hide the originating i.p. address (no other does it) to the nameserver in the name of "privacy" so you can only have as much granularity as the nearest cloudflare server to user (anti-competitive). That is unless you buy an ipv4 block (because everyone is still on ipv4) and set up anycast.

For non 1.1.1.1 dns users I can just set up varnish and they'll be served via GEO ip lookup so the domain gets pointed to the nearest ip address. This is much cheaper. I'm not going to buy an ipv4 block just for cloudflare dns users.

Their privacy claim is a lie because your webserver is going to be exposed to the end user i.p. address anyways after resolving from the nameserver.

Facebook a multi hundred billion $ company vs much smaller companies in Brazil. I would think that the government here did the right thing. Let your home grown companies grow first, then let them compete openly with foreign companies.

If companies are people, then companies in many 3rd world countries are children. You don't let adults hit children until they grow to be adults.

I've travelled to Saudi Arabia a lot, and have never been detained or even asked anything. Their customs have always been friendly, so it probably does not belong on that list.

Price in this case is calculated by the amount of Ads you have to see, the effect on mental health because of Facebook's physiological experiments on its users, Facebook not obeying laws of smaller countries where it operates in, Facebook not paying taxes in other countries, owning Instagram - effectively the second largest competitor to Facebook is also owned by Facebook, too late to take anti discriminately actions for ads (if they were smaller and feared a boycott, they would take earlier precautions) etc.

We need to look beyond the "Price = 0" narrative when we're investigating things that in this new era are free.

What if I want the choice of using firefox with extensions on mac os?

Now only if they allow competing browser engine...

No push notifications, limits of 50mb on storage whereas a good email app requires around 500mb to 1.5gb including local indexes for quick search etc. Storage cleared after a week of no interaction. No way to do photo preview. No contact picker. No picture in picture API support. And lots of other missing API's. Look at the WebKit forms and see how many developers are begging Apple to support them for years. The ignore any request.

The web browsers that meets the PWA requirements are Chrome, Edge, Firefox (to a large extent), Brave, Vivaldi, all available on Windows, Linux, Mac, Android.

Not Safari. And all browsers including Chrome and Firefox are just Safari under the hood (on iOS) so no completion for Apple. Apple does not even allow a competing browser engine.

I wouldn't call this "PWA support".

When I talk to friends at Google that work at Chrome, and tell them to convince Apple to support many of the features, they tell me that they have given up on them, and I can go talk to Apple if I want. They told me they're gonna keep progressing the web even if Apple wants to stay behind, they won't stop.

I've talked to people at Apple about this, they don't care. They always have a far fetched excuse. I know it's not the engineers fault, they are ordered by the upper management.

Instead of giving the money to Apple, we could easily reinvest it to grow.

The web will be very close to metal in five years. Google is working on it.

I use Apple's iPhone too. I use Google for search. And Facebook for social networking. And I use Microsoft's Windows as my pc. I'm not taking anyone's side in here. I'm just saying that I do not consider the Apples stance of privacy as more then a façade but I don't really care about privacy as much as Apple pretends that they care about. I do care about privacy from other companies, not from government to the extent permitted under the law.

And yes, I think that Google is still better compared to Apple as far as the web is concerned. I can freely block their trackers if I want to. Google's interests align with the future of the web. Apple's interests are a complete walled garden. As a consumer, for as long as the web thrives, most people benefit. When a wall garden happens, that is when consumers lose in the longer term.

Android if Google as far as I am concerned, for now. Lets hope Huawei gets it's store off the ground fast. But for now: no Google Play Service, and Android is a brick.

Everyone is tired of Apple's nickel and diming. This was the last straw that broke the camels back.

It's every independent developers benefit. The guy "DHH" - also the maker of ruby on rails said that he wants the rules to be consistent and changed for EVERYONE.

Apple intentionally doesn't support many the functionality required by PWA's.

Apple's trashy guidelines need to go to the dustbin of history.

Is this satire?

This. Many of the commentators on this issue are really lazy people. Please before making suggestions, get background information.

Lol this is good

Maybe they should change the algorithm then. There is an important discussion going on and the dumb algorithm thinks its better to just brush it away and kick the can down the road.