madis
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- Comment on Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff. 3 weeks ago:
But sideloading and OEM stores (Samsung, Huawei) have been available for years?
- Comment on Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff. 3 weeks ago:
I don’t understand the second one “Distribute third-party app stores as apps, so users can switch app stores by downloading a new one from Google Play, in just the same way as they’d install any app”.
In real life you don’t see big supermarkets spread their flyers in competitors’ stores, how does that make sense digitally?
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 4 weeks ago:
But it would use less energy afterwards? At least that was claimed with the 4o model for example.
- Comment on UBO Lite Pulled from Firefox Store by developer 1 month ago:
uBOL is entirely declarative, meaning there is no need for a permanent uBOL process for the filtering to occur, and CSS/JS injection-based content filtering is performed reliably by the browser itself rather than by the extension. This means that uBOL itself does not consume CPU/memory resources while content blocking is ongoing – uBOL’s service worker process is required only when you interact with the popup panel or the option pages.
uBOL does not require broad “read/modify data” permission at install time, hence its limited capabilities out of the box compared to uBlock Origin or other content blockers requiring broad “read/modify data” permissions at install time.
Emphasis mine. No background processes, including a website-reading permission does indeed sound more optimized for mobile, where people may have limited resources.
- Comment on Huawei tr-fold review 1 month ago:
I’d be super down for one that folds flat, and does away with the huge camera bump. Get me a nice stylus, a foldable keyboard and a simple folding support to hold the phone at an angle, and that’s essentially a desktop that can fit into your pockets.
So essentially your concerns are the camera bump and stylus? As the other features you mentioned are already there.
- Comment on OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman 1 month ago:
Serious question though, has any other company matched their 4o model yet?
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 1 month ago:
Because it keeps getting updates?
- Comment on Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store 2 months ago:
Honestly, I’m shocked there aren’t way more. We have the Google Store, Samsung Store, Amazon store and…that’s it?
There are plenty of repositories for F-Droid, and from what I’ve heard, also for Aptoide.
That said, it is not really beneficial for most companies to compete with Google Play since they know the user base will be smaller, user experience will be worse (install warnings, no auto-update), and people may get affected by malware if they don’t pay attention to where they are downloading things from (may download a scam app directly instead of the legit app store).
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 2 months ago:
It would be nice if a competitor entered the space where usability is the goal and be an open source solution.
ReactOS?
- Comment on Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google 3 months ago:
Search engine crawlers identify themselves (user agents), so they can be prevented by both honor-based system (robots.txt) and active blocking (error 403 or similar) when attempted.
- Comment on Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage 4 months ago:
Vivaldi and Brave have the option to disable the Hangouts extension in settings, which should disable this.
As linked in the article, it is indeed used for “Hangouts” (Meet) troubleshooting.
- Comment on Android's new anti-theft features 6 months ago:
Sounds like a work profile, so you could probably simulate it already with something like Island. Although I can’t remember if it also has a PIN feature.
- Comment on Android's new anti-theft features 6 months ago:
Seems like it will fulfill its purpose then - to protect said teenager’s data.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 6 months ago:
Well, supposedly people can use it without paying and without account, though I cannot confirm the last part in the official site.
- Comment on Microsoft’s OpenAI partnership was born from Google envy 6 months ago:
Well, if they wouldn’t, then someone else still would. Google? Apple? Amazon?
- Comment on More and more people are ditching carrier roaming in favor of travel eSIMs 7 months ago:
What exactly is the great advantage of eSIMs if you have a dual SIM phone?!
If the phone supports a normal and eSIM at the same time, they are equivalent. Because in many countries, dual SIM phones are (and will be) harder to get than single SIM ones, so having eSIM at least allows that.
- Comment on The DMA already having an impact. Brave Browser installs surge after introduction of browser choice splash screen on iOS. 8 months ago:
Ahh, now that explains why I just saw a smaller number.
Floorp is based on Firefox ESR. Floorp will be updated every 4 weeks, with security updates provided before each Firefox release.
- Comment on The DMA already having an impact. Brave Browser installs surge after introduction of browser choice splash screen on iOS. 8 months ago:
Floorp looks nice and customizable, but in terms of updates it doesn’t seem very sustainable yet.
- Comment on A New Chapter For Mozilla 9 months ago:
Indeed, they don’t have to bring back the XUL. The power users would just appreciate…
- new extension APIs that interact with the browser UI
- bring back toolbar customization that was removed for no reason (we can’t even move the extension button at this point…)
- bring back (start supporting again) compact mode and better themes
- Comment on Google Chrome Warning Issued For All Windows Users 9 months ago:
I think it will be back this March with the new laws (Digital Markets Act).
- Comment on Cable Firms to FTC: We Shouldn’t Have to Let Users Cancel Service With a Click 10 months ago:
It shouldn’t be more bureaucratic because then people are not inclined to use anything, including services they need or want. It should simply be clearly worded so that you know what you’re getting and don’t feel tricked by any hidden fees etc.
- Comment on Brave is sunsetting strict fingerprint protection 10 months ago:
The same approach would make sense in Firefox too though. And as far as I know, Firefox’s equivalent option is still about:config-only anyway.
- Comment on Google may let you choose which of its services are linked, thanks to EU 10 months ago:
You can already use any backup apps. ADB-based, root-based or simply copying the APKs.
- Comment on EU antitrust chief to Tim Cook: Apple must allow third-party app stores 10 months ago:
Well, do you see it happening on Android for any major app except Fortnite?
- Comment on Duolingo lays off 10% of contract workers, partly due to AI 10 months ago:
Well, you always had the option to skip a level.
- Comment on YouTube will now direct you to the right first-aid videos during an emergency | Searching YouTube for advice on CPR, heart attacks, or other critical health emergencies will now highlight authorita... 10 months ago:
Dislikes are no longer publicly visible, unless you use an extension (which would use mostly crowdsourced or interpolated data). There are extensions that show the likes/dislikes before clicking the video, but you cannot sort by it.
- Comment on YouTube will now direct you to the right first-aid videos during an emergency | Searching YouTube for advice on CPR, heart attacks, or other critical health emergencies will now highlight authorita... 10 months ago:
Where does it say that? The article only mentions authoritative videos, which means they have been made or approved by authorities, not that watching the videos will interact with them in any way.
- Comment on Google Just Disabled Cookies for 30 Million Chrome Users. Here’s How to Tell If You’re One of Them | It’s the beginning of the end in Google’s plan to kill cookies forever 10 months ago:
- Comment on European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying 10 months ago:
Remove banners, just make the companies respect the browser setting.
- Comment on Google Just Disabled Cookies for 30 Million Chrome Users. Here’s How to Tell If You’re One of Them | It’s the beginning of the end in Google’s plan to kill cookies forever 10 months ago:
I wonder what makes them think they can get away with it.
Killing 3rd party cookies is good,
That makes them think it.