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If Putin was that stupid, he'd already have been ousted.

Non-US countries should block Google AdSense to punish Google without affecting users.

Or they just don't want to support a dodgy advertising company.

Autism is a common comorbidity of Williams syndrome.

You can report it to Google Play. The category is Restricted Content -> User Generated Content, and the app ID is "com.tea.tea". https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/cont...

IQ is 80% heritable.

People like you are the cause of the problems described in the article, not TikTok.

Cherrypicking? What about all the TikTok content promoting body positivity, etc?

Browsers won't suddenly flourish when Google cannot finance browsers anymore, they'll just turn to shit.

Great! Let's go back to actual applications.

It would make more sense that Google be forced to sell Google Play + Services, not Android.

There's a theory that says that the factors that increase IQ are the same that, at very high levels, suppress species' innate characteristics, which can cause autism: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271507751_A_Theory_...

There's a theory* that says things like autism, creative genius and homosexuality are caused by suppression of innate characteristics of our species. If so, then it makes sense why there isn't a "gay gene", since there aren't also specific genes for more than 90% of autistics.

* https://archive.is/BsxMm

Now it has an RSS/Atom feed, unlike the previous version: https://whitehouse.gov/feed

Microsoft still supports Windows 8.1.

or where you're writing all of your core logic in C/Rust but you want to use HTML/CSS for your interface

DOM is highly intertwined with JavaScript, so that wouldn't be possible.

That's why you see so many Electron apps. Seriously, we don't need to wrap a whole browser

Actually, Electron wraps an entire browser, except for its UI part.

The true difference is that Servo is more modular than WebKit.

are people really expecting CSS restyling tricks and Vimium to work in modern web apps like Google Drive or Discord

What's the problem? Modern web browsers are already dumbed down, now you want web pages to be dumbed down too?

Waterfox is evil! https://github.com/MrAlex94/Waterfox/issues/1406

Waterfox is evil! https://github.com/MrAlex94/Waterfox/issues/1406

What?! Mozilla funds Google in order to control web standards, and to defend themselves against antitrust suits.

Google doesn't need Mozilla to increase their search marketshare. People who care about privacy switch to things such as DuckDuckGo. When Firefox had Yahoo as the default search engine, many users switched back to Google.

WebCore is already far diverged from Blink, and V8 was made from the scratch. WebKit is a solid alternative to Chromium.

WebCore is already far diverged from Blink, and V8 was made from the scratch. WebKit is a solid alternative to Chromium.

Why not just use a desktop program with online features, then?

and inability to use software outside of the app store

Google wants browsers to be like OSes, because they can't directly compete with desktop OSes. This concept is incompatible with security and privacy, so Google's interests are more harmful (they fund Mozilla).

Granular permissions don't solve the privacy issue, because denying them contributes to fingerprinting. Also, JIT compilers violate W^X.

Also, V8 isn't even a fork of Nitro/JavaScriptCore, it was made from scratch.

Maintaining a browser engine is no easy task

Reverting anti-adblocker changes doesn't require that many resources.

Google care very much about the complete and utter ubiquity of their search.

Google doesn't even need Mozilla to increase/maintain their search market share. When Firefox's default search engine was changed to Yahoo! in the U.S., many users switched back to Google [1]. Also, people who care about privacy use things such as DuckDuckGo anyway.

[1] https://searchengineland.com/report-yahoo-search-losing-fire...

Nope. Apple's WebKit is the best weapon against Chromium monoculture. Blink is already far diverged from WebCore, and V8 was made from scratch.

On the other hand, Firefox is becoming a Chrom* copycat even under the hood: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/06/a-new-regexp-engine-in-spi...

Or perhaps the far-right just has the habit to coopt members of others groups. Not only free market supporters, e.g. Sara Winter and Carla Zambelli were from the feminist group FEMEN, and nowadays are Bolsonaro supporters.