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They can still reject the proposal. Just because they’re built upon Chromium, doesn’t mean they need to utilise or retain every feature Google adds to it.
They can still reject the proposal. Just because they’re built upon Chromium, doesn’t mean they need to utilise or retain every feature Google adds to it.
Agreed. News about X is not news about technology.
What better way to create the image of a thriving userbase, than for your userbase to literally create the image.
I do think Firefox gets a degraded experience on some websites.
For example, Google Meet supports virtual video backgrounds and 3D face filters for Chromium based browsers.
And Google Search serves up an older results page design with fewer features to Firefox users. Someone has literally had to create a Firefox addon to make it pretend to be Chrome so it gets the modern results page.
I realise these are both Google-owned websites - but I don’t think it’s accurate to say that the average user isn’t going to come up across these differences.
There are several eras of the web.
I think Lemmy feels very much of the “Web 2.0” era, which came about in the mid-to-late naughties. When MySpace and Facebook and blogging were all the rage.
So not the same “old web” era as Windows 98. If that makes sense!
Really? I’ve been using it for a while and haven’t noticed tracking.
What sorts of tracking have you seen them engage in?
They display ads in search results, which they presumably do need to track clicks for. But you can literally just switch the ads off in the settings. And then you’ll never see them again. They’re on by default, but not mandatory.
reddit uses a differential for upvotes
ELI5? I’m genuinely interested - just wonder what this means? I’d always assumed +1 on a post meant 1 user clicking the “upvote” button.
Out of interest, what’s your preferred choice nowadays? I’ve always preferred to stick with Debian-derived distros so I don’t need to learn a different package manager (silly, I know).
I guess I like the comfort/predictably of Ubuntu - I know what to expect, and how to fix it if things go wrong. But maybe I shouldn’t be limiting myself.
What are you running your VM in, out of interest? I’ve only ever used VirtualBox, but it’s not always that performant.
Screen and tmux are your friends in this situation. They can keep your vim session alive when your SSH connection drops, so you can reconnect and continue where you left off.
Do you have a sauce for that Google announcement about Reddit? I’m interested!
It really does, doesn’t it!?
Do people even use Pinterest nowadays?
I’m always staggered by how regularly it appears at the top of search results.
In the UK it’s a “builders’ bum”