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A lot of mods had that opinion when the API changes were first announced. But those protests quickly crumbled when Reddit started threatening to remove mods of subs participating in the blackout. It seems like a lot cared more about keeping their mod wrench than anything to do with the user experience.
He seems to spout a lot of things about free speech, and about how Twitter is the only place to get your voice heard without censorship, etc. But if a journalist crosses him or pens an article that paints one of his companies in a negative light... they're gone.
Pi-Hole (or any other DNS filters) don't block this one.
This is about the "National Emergency Library" they launched during the peak of the COVID pandemic? I think they had good intentions, but the legality around it was definitely questionable from the start.
It won't load for me in Firefox either, even with all extensions disabled.
That was a nice feature, but there are other apps that do this without consent and I don't like it. For example, if you have the NY Times app installed and tap on a link in Safari that leads to a NY Times article, it automatically opens it in the NY Times app. iOS has no user controls for this behavior. The only way around it is to long-press on the link and pick "open in new tab", or uninstall the app.
I find Twitter really annoying to use now, since they made it so all of the replies from blue checkmark accounts get boosted to the top of the feed. I have to scroll past all of them just to find "normal" comments. The BlueBlocker browser extension is helping, but it can only block 1 account approximately every 15 seconds, or it triggers a rate limit and I have to sign-in to Twitter again.
Many of the old default subs like News, Politics, etc are ran by the same group of moderators, and they will heavily censor things they don't like. But it's the same thing on the other side of the spectrum, a lot of the conservative subs aren't tolerant to whatever they think is "woke".
I completely agree with that, in the past if I saw a DIY video with a 50% upvote rate, I'd know that it should probably be ignored and to look for a better source. Now, I'm not sure. I have to comb through the comments to find out if that particular uploader missed something, left a bolt loose that should be tightened, etc.
The FAA has a program called LADD (Limiting Aircraft Data Displayed) and high-profile individuals, etc can sign up to it. The major players in the flight tracking business like FlightRadar24 or FlightAware follow that. But sites like ADS-B Exchange do not adhere to that, so you can see a lot more flights that are blocked on the others. Also anyone with a Raspberry Pi and a cheap antenna can build their own ADS-B receiver and get that unfiltered data.
I really miss that site, I remember you could place a "bounty" for some rare/obscure song or remix and there was always someone out there who had a copy of it who was willing to share it to get their ratio up.
The YouTube ads defeat DNS sinkholes because the ads are served from the same domain(s) as the content.
That works well on a desktop browser, but the YouTube ads are still a problem on iOS and other platforms like smart TVS, Roku or Chromecast/Google TV.
They never even admitted that bots were present in WSB despite the evidence. This whole Gamestop saga just gave them a lot of publicity and a lot of traffic from people who never would have visited Reddit before.
The test flight of Falcon Heavy (when they sent the Tesla Roadster to space) is still the most memorable launch for me. Watching those 2 boosters land side-by-side simultaneously looked like magic.
Even on their own hardware (Surface Pro) I've ran into really annoying issues with DPI scaling, especially when docking/undocking from a secondary monitor.
I still have an old @msn.com email address, I remember at the time you could choose from @hotmail.com, @msn.com or @passport.com. Haven't used it for email for at least a decade, but I do use it for OneDrive so my account stays "active".
Why doesn't this site use HTTPS?
Could these big tech firms challenge this in court? It seems like a very ambiguous use of "national security reasons".
I had 2 years of smoking in the building before it was banned and I don't miss my clothes constantly smelling like tobacco smoke.
They don't actually check your region either, you just have to check a box saying that you're in the U.S. It seems to be flying under the radar, at least until now
13.5 went live on May 20. They just released 13.5.1 yesterday to patch the unc0ver jailbreak.
browser.urlbar.update1 set to false will disable it, but that option is being removed in FireFox 77.
I used to mod an active subreddit and I saw this type of thing all the time. Once a post hits the front page or a comment gets gilded, the majority will just assume it's factual and will run with it. If anything it was kind of scary to see how easy people can be manipulated.
That's a shame because I've been using it as a news aggregator while dodging all their offers to subscribe to News+ articles like the WSJ, etc.
The only side effect I really notice in everyday browsing with privacy.resistFingerprinting enabled is time. It spoofs the system time zone as UTC which makes it a bit confusing looking at things like sports and TV schedules.
All of these commercial VPN providers seem a bit sketchy to me. Roll your own on a VPS with Algo.
The lazy way of conforming to the GDPR
I smoked for 15 years but quit last August when I started vaping. I certainly feel a lot better, my senses of taste and smell are much stronger and I don’t get short of breath running up the stairs anymore. It seems almost too good to be true, I’m waiting for the report saying it’s like liquid asbestos.
It's far too common now and there doesn't seem to be any meaningful consequences for the websites/companies involved.