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This is a win-win situation for Google. I doubt they haven't done the maths. If they lose a percentage of the userbase, but get increased revenue, it's only logical to do that. If their userbase decreases, their monopoly status also decreases, making regulation harder.

The percentage of users who install firefox is low because of the inertia of the default. Having Google as the default search engine in firefox certainly didn't help.

Imagine downloading firefox to replace IE or Edge on a fresh Windows install and then immediately witness Chrome ads in your search results.

Mozilla should had disrupted the third party tracking/ads business, when it had the chance, by providing a default ad blocker and severing ties with no-privacy-respecting search engines (before Google disrupted the browsers market that is).

Google's Android browser is doing well by not supporting extensions, why would they miss the chance of additional revenue by not crippling their desktop browser the same way?

Considering that Chinese tech companies have grown dramatically because of the GWoC and have enough money to invest left and right in foreign countries, it would be nice, but utterly unrealistic, if EU could copy that success model.

EU values the privacy of its people, the online interactions are certainly not tracked like in China.

I'm currently working alone making less than 10K per year. My networking is not great and I wasn't able to land a job in many smaller than Amazon companies. I wouldn't leave even a 50K job, let alone an order of magnitude of that.

It's his life and his choices, but many of us have it quite hard.

Does anybody have experience with thin clients connected to buffed workstations or servers?

My laptop is pretty good for scripting and light compile jobs, but if I could just code on it and forward the heavy computing to my other buffed computers it would save me both battery and time.

Unfortunately they denied my application when I tried to get one during my college years.

I felt envy seeing some my peers (who had no existing repos, or far fewer than me) get free PRO accounts while github probably though I should just buy one.

Long story short, I created a bitbucket account and later made heavy use of gitlab.

Ruby helped me grasp the basic OOP concepts when I was a teenager, just by reading tutorials and blog posts during the time RoR was all the rage.

It was one of those unexpected moments of extreme enlightenment I haven't experienced in a while now.

I doubt most tech literate criminals won't use something like Telegram or Matrix over a tor relay.

Whenever I and my girlfriend talk about anything too personal, I always joke about the government's ability to hear our conversation.

WhatsApp and Viber provide cryptographic communication but, if I'm not mistaken, it needs to be explicitly enabled and I've also read there's a bunch of metadata exposed.

HTTP/3 explained 7 years ago

Most if not all ads can be blocked with an ad blocker like uBlock origin.

I used uMatrix myself in the past (I also used NoScript a much longer while ago), but it requires too much time to cherry pick the remote hosts (usually CDNs) and files to allow.