vmateixeira

Does it come spyware free?

And Oracle as well. Good luck trying to find old software and/or documentation links that don't 404.

No separation between tabs and they keep hiding useful context menu items [0].

[0] As an example:

1) close tabs to the right/left and - are now hidden under menus

2) show image on current page was removed - only allowed to show image on a new tab (which the mouse middle button already used to do)

Thanks for the explanation. I had the wrong idea that it could be due to, for example, if A->B belonged to a different provider than B->C, providers not reaching an agreement on what % to take each, for the journey from A->C - hence increasing the overall cost for covering demands from both.

And it's often cheaper to buy 2/3 separate tickets, for stops along the way of a long journey, than just simply buying straight from A to B.

They couldn't agree more. [1][2]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20190912051032/https://www.stand...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20210225224745/https://metro.co....

Exactly this. It's a problem already solved by pagination - but I guess that's not cool and doesn't allow for such granular tracking.

Thanks for sharing

I feel you. Unfortunately, I don't think GDPR will be of much help on that case. A fine of up to 1% of they're revenue will hardly make a dent - it's just another tax. Misbehaviour will be still worth it.

Actually GDPR is of great help to them, by putting smaller competitors away from using similar techniques. For those, a 1% revenue is a lot.

In the UK, JustEat takes 30% of the order, same as UberEats, with 0 liability - if something goes wrong with the order, including problems with delivery time, driver taking a nibble, the restaurant just doesn't get paid. Deliveroo is a bit greedier and takes 35%.

It's definitely not the lack of competition... it's just that the competition doesn't behave much better compared to them.

So, not only apple, but pretty much everyone, can eavesdrop on the HTTP request and find out from which developer I'm running apps from?

Increasing performance and cutting down infrastructure costs?

Looks like someone deserves a bonus

Not that Teams is better but I feel like Slack started to die the moment it removed IRC and XMPP support. That was their only clear advantage over the competition.

The inability to turn off notifications shouldn't be a feature. People (at least me) want more work time, less noise.

Voice/video chat is completely broken (at least for Linux).

Having to very often "clear the cache and hard reload" on the "native" app, makes me feel I'm using a bloated browser tab.

How, with all those quirks, do they want to compete with Teams - (from a well established company with such a big user base?

(edit: clarification)

I know this is from 2007, but it's funny this is coming from Microsoft... with all the W10 metrics, telemetry and spyware bloat that replaced the old and effective "Send error report" button. Kind of seems like they didn't follow their own advice - provided user satisfaction is actually what's on the line here.

Yeah.. probably depend$ on how loud you can make yourself heard..

RIP Aaron

Yes, in regards to traffic. But it's still denying me from providing a service to real customers.

Genuine question, is this not considered a DoS attack?

Let's imagine I have my online stock linked to limited physical items/assets, ex tickets for a show, which will get reserved for a period of time. This will be preventing genuine clients from buying them.

Just because there's worse, does that mean bad is good?

They don't need to know what my individual preferences are, actually, I would be glad if they don't try to "find them out".

Are you sure they're trying to ship what works best for most people? I've not read that anywhere. If they really wanted people to have a choice, they wouldn't be adding configurations that can't be switched on/off through they're preferences menu - like for example, that crazy bar they just added a couple of releases ago - oh.. and which apparently you are not allowed to switch off no more, not even through about:config, according to sibling comment. Also, they have a track record of breaking old configuration options quite often through updates.

I am grateful by what they offer - just not sure they're not sneakily changing course, similar to what chrome did.

This is exactly one of the things I wasn't really looking forward to.

So... what kind of nonsense do I need to disable in about:config this time?

Because FKs on a relational model.. as an example, deleting a user/account might end up being a task on going through every reference to it, and the references to its references, etc.

This is actually the reason some companies do not delete users/accounts [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23005060

Just got this email

...

Your service provider and data controller is now Google LLC: Because the UK is leaving the EU, we’ve updated our Terms so that a United States-based company, Google LLC, is now your service provider instead of Google Ireland Limited. Google LLC will also become the data controller responsible for your information and complying with applicable privacy laws. We’re making similar changes to the Terms of Service for YouTube, YouTube Paid Services and Google Play. These changes to our Terms and privacy policy don’t affect your privacy settings or the way that we treat your information (see the privacy policy for details). As a reminder, you can always visit your Google Account to review your privacy settings and manage how your data is used. If you’re the guardian of a child under the age required to manage their own Google Account and you use Family Link to manage their use of Google services, please note that when you accept our new Terms, you do so on their behalf as well, and you may want to discuss these changes with them.

That doesn't matter.

As long as one of your friends or relatives has and accepts to upload their contact list (with your number included).

Paste this on the browser console:

document.body.onselectstart = function() {return true;};

I often wonder if what people refer to as communism, wasn't just a corrupted implementation of it, pretty much the same as we currently see under socialist and democratic governments.

I've got no experience under such regime, but I can't say I've lived under a socialist and/or democratic regime either.

In theory, maybe all of them could work great, but we would never find that reflected in practice due to our human nature.

Yes, these kind of extensions just used to take advantage of the existing properties.

You could get to it through about:config (so.. a little difficult for the common user to reach)

media.autoplay.enabled

media.autoplay.allow-muted

They then changed to

media.autoplay.default

media.autoplay.block-webaudio

media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed

And removed the previous parameters, which caused the videos to start playing automatically again, until you would configure the new properties (again, only though about:config).

Finally, they're now providing a menu option for achieving the same, which deserves to be applauded.

And that's exactly the problem.. it used to be very hard to block just a few weeks ago.

I honestly wish you all the best, and hope that works for you.

Just please be aware that after you've delivered, you loose power for negotiation. Therefore I would probably rethink the timeline choosen for agreeing on a reward "then I can say how much I want to be compensated for..".