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asituop

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    Comment #18690231

    "Seeing HiCloud request while having HiCloud app enabled" -> and so ... ? The question "if I refuse all their services, do they still collect my data". No surprise your phone makes…

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    Comment #18690160

    The social score in China is even worse than in Black Mirror, it defines everything you can access from bank, education, job, health, transport , social relationships, etc. It is n…

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    Comment #18689821

    I'm not sure to understand are you basically saying " it's okay to do human testing because we can save million of others " ? The whole point of "civilized" countries is to guarant…

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    Comment #18689733

    http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20181126/p2g/00m/0fe/047... "He said his goal was not to cure or prevent an inherited disease, but to try to bestow a trait that few people natu…

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    Comment #18656990

    Not that Huawei is the only and surely some other brands are even worse, but still Huawei phones are full of spyware, just open NetGuard or another example here : https://mobile.tw…

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    Comment #18654984

    Webrender hasn't shipped on Android yet did it ?

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    Comment #18643937

    I agree, a Total Surveillance system than the most dystopian Sci-Fi movies could barely imagine, a Social Score to keep control over people act & thoughts and now non-consenting Hu…

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    Comment #18621231

    They state in the license that : "You may opt-out of many of these scenarios, but not all, as described in the product documentation." So it seems that not everything can be disabl…

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    Comment #18620701

    Be careful that's it's only open-source if you build it yourself or if you use VS-Codium ( https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium ). The VS-Code that everyone uses is under a Microso…

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    Comment #18619707

    If Mozilla can't reach enough user now, why would they do with a fork of Blink ? It's not a web engine problem, it's just that Google is too powerful and Chrome is everywhere, so t…

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    Comment #18619587

    I really don't find this insightful, just repeating what everyone thinks : "people don't care about privacy", "Chrome is successful because it is installed by default", etc. thx ca…

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    Comment #18610036

    Like Reader Mode ?

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    Comment #18598885

    I really can't agree more with you. WebVR is not a good investment, when you are not even on par in terms of performance for displaying a web page, the last thing you look into is …

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    Comment #18598605

    You mean everyone uses Blink/V8 and everyone does research as forks and merge it to master if they have something interesting to commit ? I would see a few issues : - The 1st probl…

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    Comment #18598511

    The VS code you download is not Open Source, it has a special Microsoft license and includes close source Microsoft Telemetry ( which could be considered as spyware) which you cann…

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    Comment #18598358

    You seems very certain that Firefox will switch to Chromium but the recent trend is going in the exact opposite direction : - Firefox Focus is switching from Chromium Engine to Gec…

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    Comment #18585244

    You made the generalization that people will always vote for shiny and expensive stuff, I gave you an example it is not always the case. I never said direct-democracy is a bullet p…

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    Comment #18585059

    Especially when Google itself is promoting Flutter which in a way is a non-native UI framework. I think as long as a framework is performant and implements well the design guidelin…

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    Comment #18579648

    Switzerland is very heterogeneous in terms of language and mentality. The Röstigraben is clearly not a myth. However people accept those very high differences because it's economic…

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    Comment #18579595

    Switzerland is the exact proof that what you say about masses voting for the expensive things is not always true. For e.g they had a "votation" on minimum wage, and people refused …