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[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm22FAXZMw1BaWeFszZxUKw/vid...
The percentage of users who install firefox is low because of the inertia of the default. Having Google as the default search engine in firefox certainly didn't help.
Imagine downloading firefox to replace IE or Edge on a fresh Windows install and then immediately witness Chrome ads in your search results.
Mozilla should had disrupted the third party tracking/ads business, when it had the chance, by providing a default ad blocker and severing ties with no-privacy-respecting search engines (before Google disrupted the browsers market that is).
Google's Android browser is doing well by not supporting extensions, why would they miss the chance of additional revenue by not crippling their desktop browser the same way?
EU values the privacy of its people, the online interactions are certainly not tracked like in China.
One of the most wholesome programming communities I've participated in.
https://xenforo.com/xf2-docs/dev/add-on-structure/#recommend...
It's his life and his choices, but many of us have it quite hard.
I got myself this cheap machine for that purpose:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mean+juice+machine&t=chromeos&iax=...
My laptop is pretty good for scripting and light compile jobs, but if I could just code on it and forward the heavy computing to my other buffed computers it would save me both battery and time.
I felt envy seeing some my peers (who had no existing repos, or far fewer than me) get free PRO accounts while github probably though I should just buy one.
Long story short, I created a bitbucket account and later made heavy use of gitlab.
Instead of ads, in their free tier, they make me listen to sponsored songs by artists I'd never have heard of.
If you need something more advanced, you can try clion from jetbrains with the intellij-rust plug-in.
It was one of those unexpected moments of extreme enlightenment I haven't experienced in a while now.
About your first statement though, which server software do you use that still sends data after the client has closed the connection? Doesn't it use hearbeats based on ACKs?
I wonder how many companies rely on in-house exploit research and what would be the turnaround related to buying from 3rd parties.
If the users are serious about the right to choose for themselves. If they dislike adverts. Spotify may experience some business shrinkage.
That could signal a reversal of one catastrophic aspect of the current Internet.
I've read on /g/ that he's been working on Google Plus. In the thread I read that, people were joking that he is going to get fired now that the project is sun-setting, but there was no real evidence to back that up.
Whenever I and my girlfriend talk about anything too personal, I always joke about the government's ability to hear our conversation.
WhatsApp and Viber provide cryptographic communication but, if I'm not mistaken, it needs to be explicitly enabled and I've also read there's a bunch of metadata exposed.
I used uMatrix myself in the past (I also used NoScript a much longer while ago), but it requires too much time to cherry pick the remote hosts (usually CDNs) and files to allow.