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Perhaps one justification for blocking ads is protecting users from personal information harvesting, tracking, and malware delivered through advertising networks. Aside from that, I can't think of a justification.

I actually think it would be good if there were filter lists that whitelisted ads that were not harmful to users in those ways, but that sounds difficult/impossible to fairly maintain, and I doubt anyone else wants it.

"In alignment with our commitment to an open and accessible internet, Mozilla will reinstate previously restricted listings in Russia," the group declared. "Our initial decision to temporarily restrict these listings was made while we considered the regulatory environment in Russia and the potential risk to our community and staff.

I would tell you to go to a specific timestamp to see the pen shadow that you are missing, but the Threads video player doesn't seem to have a visible time nor a way to pause playback. That's unfortunate.

If you go 1/4 to 1/3 of the way through the video when the camera zooms in, you'll probably see it.

I think they are referring to the Pixel 6 [1]. If the same happened again, Google might announce that the Pixel 8 will receive 4 or 5 years of major Android version updates and 7 years of security updates.

However, the alleged leaked specs for the Pixel 8 explicitly state "7 years of OS and security updates" [2], so I think they do actually intend on 7 years of major Android version updates.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/19/22735485/google-pixel-6-...

[2] https://www.91mobiles.com/hub/google-pixel-8-pro-specificati...

Bluesky Exploits 3 years ago

I think it's better to just not allow custom text for links. It's the behavior people are accustomed to from years of using various social media platforms.

I arbitrarily selected the month of September 2022 and found that on only 5 out of the 30 days of the month was there an entry related to Ukraine or Ukrainians in the "Did you know" section. Of those 5, only 1 was related to the war. I disagree that 5/30 constitutes "nearly every day".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Recent_additions/202......

Furthermore, I don't see what's inherently wrong with including information in that section that relates to a topic people are likely to be interested in at the moment.

Additionally, the "Did you know section" isn't really for current events. That would be the "In the news" section.

I disagree. The current title "Teddit Is Shutting Down" implies that the Teddit project or the official Teddit instance at teddit.net are shutting down, neither of which are currently happening.

You are implying that the only measure of success for a fork is for it to exist indefinitely. If the goal of io.js was to improve Node's governance model, which appears to be the case, then I would consider it a success.