aljones

Why the hyperbole?

Chrome is heavily promoted on some of the most high traffic websites. Users of those websites are told they should use Chrome. So they do. There's nothing Mozilla can do about that. Mozilla doesn't enforce antitrust. No upheaval within Mozilla will change it.

Is there a "scientifically-looking" paper that shows that users love it?

What does the date of the interview have to do with whether or not he was central?

How big of an effect do you think this had? Most people didn't answer yes.

YouTube app is nice but so is the web site.

You are skeptical that Bezos would delegate publicly describing the results of the investigation to the person he publicly hired to investigate?

It is not a very conspicuous signal. I don't know which one of my friends use Amazon Smile. I don't think the dark pattern would work well if Amazon Smile was only social signalling. Seems to me it relies much more upon the fact that actual money is given to charities. Pretty gross of Amazon to add unrelated self serving conditions to such giving.

I can't say that I like the wikipedia reminders, but I don't dislike them. They remind me to pay for a service I use daily. So I do and they don't remind for a while. It is fine.

You can change where it installs by setting an env var.

Supply and demand are related.

No downside? The externalities of oil production and consumption are well known.

You're claiming they'd commit fraud.

You're claiming they can be compelled to lie.

Same way you do when they may have enough revenue.

"An attempt to place an ad posing as Hillary Clinton was denied."

Now matters quite a bit to me. I'm unable to predict the future well.

There are more important things than money.

Police shouldn't have incentives to increase revenue.

Ideal competitive markets allow for little profit. Significant profits are a sign that a market lacks competition. One can certainly not expect a company to voluntarily lower prices based on a value judgement. It requires competition or, in unusual cases, regulation.

That is not an accurate restatement of the policy.

You think Apple is upsetting casual users?

Indeed. They have lots more data about you that they don't consider to be your data. They think it is their data.

When you install a package, nuget will install old dependencies of that package.

The US and Russia avoided conflict with each other before and after the atom bomb, and also before and after the UN made it illegal. I'm not sure either were essential or even effective deterrents.

It is at least a hypocritical opinion. Podesta's emails were not bulk released. Wikileaks did put their own spin on them.

Do you know that they leak what they get? Cause there are credible accusations by former members that they do not.

Its not planned, it just works out that way.

Next.js does it.

It isn't surprising. I don't believe anyone claimed it was.

Chrome's growth was bootstrapped with very pushy ads on the highest traffic website on the internet, that typically doesn't allow ads. They also paid to bundle it with unrelated installers.