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SimeVidas

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About SimeVidas

I create news content for web developers on https://webplatform.news.

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    Comment #29407821

    Bug report: If you navigate to the start page and click the Get Started button, the browser’s Back button stops working (you can’t return to the start page by going back).

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    Comment #29396445

    I’m curious, would you disable GIF autoplay if the browser’s settings offered it?

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    Comment #29396421

    Why 20 MB of GIFs when you can have 200 KB of videos?

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    Comment #29383692

    > Engineers from Apple and Mozilla are largely our bastion against Google's harmful proposals for the web. Brave also deserves a mention. As long as Brave exists in its current for…

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    Comment #29362166

    On a related note, it’s a shame that you have to look to emulators to play this game because Nintendo’s official emulation is so bad.

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    Comment #29327209

    “This training consisted of completing the entire NES catalogue, about 100 games, in one month.” I’ve been playing video games my entire life, but I’m not sure I could survive this…

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    Comment #29201596

    Take a look at https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/ .

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    Comment #29130977

    Heh, when I watched the Chrome Summit recap video earlier this week, when they talked about the Privacy Sandbox developments, I remember thinking to myself “This is all cool, but I…

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    Comment #28982377

    I didn’t say I’m not affected. I’m uninformed about most things, and I sometimes behave irrationally. I don’t see that as a problem. But it does explain why I make bad decisions. T…

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    Comment #28977611

    You get used to Duck over time. Many of us have lived in pre-internet times. It was fine. You don’t have to always get the best search results immediately.

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    Comment #28977593

    Simple explanation: Most people are uninformed and irrational.

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    Comment #28977564

    Maybe Google’s researchers are kept out of the loop.

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    Comment #28876981

    Speaking of laws, there should be a law that forces blogs to put publication dates below article titles. Was this article published yesterday or 10 years ago?

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    Comment #28863950

    > Use of the Proctorio software also requires the Google Chrome browser to be installed on the students’ computers. Why am I not surprised. The only major browser that doesn’t bloc…

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    Comment #28851563

    Don’t VPNs have a very large number of servers all over the world? That must cost a ton of money and make it hard for new players to enter the market without a significant investme…

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    Comment #28829609

    What makes you so sure they could afford it? How much does it cost to set up an independent global VPN service?

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    Comment #28827453

    Yep, Mozilla does not have VPN infrastructure money. They're happy if they have enough money to develop Firefox.

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    Comment #28813577

    By the way, you can declare your preference for "old" in Reddit's settings. It has worked pretty well for me on desktop (not sure if old even exists on mobile).

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    Comment #28784995

    > I just want a well-functioning and secure browser that people can trust. You can't trust any of them. The real question is, who do you trust more ? Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Op…

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    Comment #28777706

    There could also be a newly discovered bug or change in Safari 15 that affects AMP pages.

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    Comment #28771945

    > I can only say that if an imposter site encourages you to pay for something or download code, you will immediately know you are in the wrong place. I actually laughed out loud (i…

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    Comment #28705655

    I don’t know why, but whenever I check my heart rate with a stopwatch, my heart beats synchronize with the watch ticks almost immediately (my normal pulse is 60 bpm). You’d think t…

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    Comment #28663492

    That’s technically true, but in practice, Nightly is very stable. I’ve been using it for probably five years, and issues are seldom.

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    Comment #28655760

    At least Nightly is the superior version of Firefox, so it’s an upgrade.