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It's not strange. These organisations have always existed to push mass media. It doesn't matter to them whether it's false information or not, but they are scared of not being able to control the information.
I am terrified of Microsoft going this route, since they make my OS of choice. I could expect Google doing this kind of stuff, like deciding what sites I can visit or what people I can contact using Gmail (examples that have yet to happen, but wouldn't surprise me), but Microsoft? They've always been uninterested in politics, or so it seemed. What if they decide to push this kind of political stuff in their OS?
I use eBay mostly for the resellers, i.e., when I need to buy some Chinese crap but I can't wait 2-3 weeks until it arrives here, so I buy it from some reseller in my country.
Back in the day, before aliexpress, it was good too because you could rip off the sellers. Just claim the thing never arrived and since for cheap stuff they had no tracking numbers the seller always had to refund you. You could get TONS of free stuff that way. Now aliexpress does this right and it's significantly harder.
Unless you're using a platform where you can't run an ad blocker (and I can't think of any), a hosts file (or a pihole) is a hamfisted approach compared to having ublock origin.
Just put the domains in your ublock origin list. That way, if you visit those pages, you will be displayed a page that says that the site was blocked but you have a button to temporarily override the block.
You should've linked to the https version of the page so the dozens of icons load faster (because of http2 multiplexing)
It doesn't say anywhere, not even in the title, that Google employees are forbidden to use the word "family". According to TFA:
The tech giant experienced a backlash from its own employees in March 2017 after a presentation about a product aimed at young people seemed to replace the term with the word 'family', leaving out various groups.
You can't escape Gmail because you'd lose your address, and you can't escape Maps because the alternatives suck.
On the other hand if I don't like Supermarket-X, I can go to Supermarket-Y
They are nothing because they don't exist. When was the last time you saw a pro-Google/Alphabet article?
No no, I have everything on my hard disk. I don't save anything to the cloud, I don't trust it. Someone may hack my accounts or the cloud itself and see my files, or they could ban me for storing things they don't approve of (the bane of companies nowadays: copyright, non-mainstream political views, etc.)
Millenial, and yes, I used youtube-dl. My "Favourites" playlist on youtube is full of videos that have been deleted or that were posted by accounts that were deleted or banned. But they are still safely stored on my hard disk ;)
With time I've learnt that not even archive.org is reliable for some things so I save whatever I can. Sometimes I even take screenshots of things that I may need someday.
I've never stopped to think of that as "hoarding", but probably it is. Thank God those files don't take physical space at home, though!
He should not call something "salty-ass junk" if he wants his "work" to be respected.
Yep
Funny you'd say that. I keep a folder with gigabytes of youtube videos I downloaded in the event that they are removed from youtube. And, to tell you the truth, a chunk of them have actually been removed from youtube over the years!
It's better because it's free, as opposed to the rest of options that you've mentioned which either a) cost money or b) force you to listen to ads.
(Pro-tip: if you use https://open.spotify.com/ with a free account with an ad blocker, you get no ads)
Will this allow you to run several profiles side by side using the same version of the browser, like with Chrome?
It indeed is a tool that can be used by all camps, but the organisation that controls it has made it clear that only people in the "libertarian" part of the political spectrum can use it.
You had a radical change of government recently, so I guess it's a matter of time to see if people like it or not.
Is iMessage even a thing outside the US? Everybody in Europe uses WA or Messenger, at least
Would be nice if banned subs appeared in a different colour.
This is similar to the MongoDB vs Amazon feud: Unity took a bad decision to protect their product and now they are paying the consequences.
I think roads are not a place for cyclists to be. For the security of everybody only motorised vehicles should be able to use them if they have no bicycle lane.
Doesn't surprise me that drivers hate cyclists so much.