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ahtaarra

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    Comment #45938949

    Well, yes. But then again the 'Take Back Control' campaign had those UKIP buses saying "We send the EU £350 million a week, let's fund our NHS instead". An average person is a bit …

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    Comment #44268989

    This is such a shame. As a Pixel 6a user, I was always bothered by the battery situation of the phone but happily ran GrapheneOS on the device since buying. Recently the model had …

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    Comment #40288693

    >TikTok also lied under oath about where US data is stored [1]. So I’m not sure why anyone should trust anything about them even if they are sold Whether you trust a company that h…

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    Comment #40288397

    Not the US govt. but independent audits of TikTok US from e.g. Oracle which never fully went through. I find the Tiktok ban more of a geopolitics thing, less of a national security…

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    Comment #40168062

    By the same logic with the Israel-Palestine issue, the US is currently the only state visibly blocking calls for immediate ceasefires and establishing a Palestinian state (which is…

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    Comment #36681225

    I think the biggest deal-breaker for me is that they chose to go with /e/OS which is not something I enjoyed after trying it briefly since the skin over AOSP to me seemed ugly and …

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    Comment #32161135

    This article was written as a response: https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2022/07/19/warner-bro...

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    Comment #31018181

    >As with any college course, there are some required materials. Prospective students will need to have access to Age of Empires IV on Steam, the Microsoft Store, or with subscripti…

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    Comment #29207239

    Now I am not sure what exactly the issue is but this seems to be applicable to all results, at least on my particular setup. On LibreWolf browser, On mouse hover, the correct resul…

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    Comment #29198855

    I recently made the swtich from DDG from Searx simply bevause right-clicking on a search result to copy the url resulted in a referrer link to be copied rather than the link of the…

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    Comment #29196267

    I think the danger of such a shift is that people will no longer have the same level of incentive to make 'good' videos but rather clickbait-y ones that go viral

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    Comment #29111930

    Their patches can be found here: https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser/common/-/tree...

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    Comment #28236214

    As a user concerned with the influence Google has over the web, forcing WebKit is something I can accept on iOS even though popular browsers on iOS, in my view, don't seem to be as…

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    Comment #28020648

    I think a part of it could be explained by the way things have been in recent times. As of July 2021 (according to the linked metrics), ~25% of the displays used are 1366x768px whi…

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    Comment #27306211

    Scroll probably would have worked well with Pocket because the former could have increased user engagement (and, in turn, help better/newer stories end up in the top posts/popular …

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    Comment #26384363

    There is a Firefox addon called 'Google container' on AMO.

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    Comment #25099633

    I would get rid of Stocks, TV and Home apps but for that you apparently need to disable System Integrity Protection from Recovery. Also, I'd rather enable applications from all sou…

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    Comment #24816564

    >Mozilla doesn't owe you anything. You think you can do better? Go build a better browser that's free yourself. So criticising an entity that claims to be creating a freer internet…

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    Comment #24781307

    but you have to close that login dialog every single time you use that App store to download apps which, for me, is infuriating

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    Comment #24774145

    A guy I know bought the base iPhone 11 Pro model for $1400 in my country because he needed it for the 'ecosystem' and because the cheaper iPhone 11 wasn't 'good enough' for him whi…

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    Comment #24718000

    My Windows 10 Home Single Language license cost the OEM $50 AFAIK and despite that MS decided to put placeholder tiles on the start menu which are replaced with apps (e.g. Candy Cr…