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Clippy was a laughing stock and target of derisive comedy for years. It has such bad brand recognition that nobody should be surprised that they aren’t using it.
While true, it turned into a cultural phenomena, a close inspiration even showed up in Cyberpunk 2077 as an AI gun. So if MS would have revitalized it, it could have been done in a self ironic way to show some personality and taste and not be a cold, calculated money machine.
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I think that is what makes it a humor goldmine. Clippy was useless. But attaching a Clippy to a language model? Still nominally useless, but mindfully so! It would be self-deprecating (un-deprecated???) humor for Microsoft, which would take the edge off of the often pushy and tone-deaf corporate look they continually and crassly paint themselves into by default. And actually potentially useful as a branding touchston…
But pushy and tone-deaf is what they are . Unless they change their whole corporate structure for this, it’d be equally tone-deaf for someone from their marketing department to pretend that Microsoft is hip and self-aware now. Better to be honest.
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Privacy Badger and UBlock Origin don't work well together, and LocalCDN is better than Decentraleyes
Nah, Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin do work well together.
What's happening is you are not getting any clear errors so you think that's the case, but you're running an inefficient setup without any doubt.
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Genuine question, if you're willing to indulge me: Why aren't you using ad-blocking of one type or another? (Assumption: You're tech literate, given the audience of this website. So I tend to assume it must be a conscious decision not to use adblocking) I don't browse without it these days.
> mobile i have ublock origin on my pc and macbook. trying firefox mobile with ublock but it's still habit to open chrome on my phone
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Nah, Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin do work well together.
You may think that, but no, they don't - and both authors of both apps state so. What's happening is you are not getting any clear errors so you think that's the case, but you're running an inefficient setup without any doubt.
I am Privacy Badger's author.
https://privacybadger.org/#Is-Privacy-Badger-compatible-with...
https://privacybadger.org/#How-is-Privacy-Badger-different-f...
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You may think that, but no, they don't - and both authors of both apps state so. What's happening is you are not getting any clear errors so you think that's the case, but you're running an inefficient setup without any doubt.
>both authors of both apps state so. I am Privacy Badger's author. https://privacybadger.org/#Is-Privacy-Badger-compatible-with... https://privacybadger.org/#How-is-Privacy-Badger-different-f...
I was certain on the PB github or something there was something saying not to use it with uBlock, and likewise on gorhills github, but maybe it was a mandella effect or something.
In any case, thanks for the clarification and humbling.
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>both authors of both apps state so. I am Privacy Badger's author. https://privacybadger.org/#Is-Privacy-Badger-compatible-with... https://privacybadger.org/#How-is-Privacy-Badger-different-f...
Wow, I apologize, and very interesting! This is some sort of tech version of mansplaining, I guess, lesson learned! I was certain on the PB github or something there was something saying not to use it with uBlock, and likewise on gorhills github, but maybe it was a mandella effect or something. In any case, thanks for the clarification and humbling.
I think the thing on uBO's side is here on https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock :
>Do NOT use uBO with any other content blocker. uBO performs as well as or better than most popular blockers. Other blockers can prevent uBO's privacy or anti-blocker-defusing features from working correctly.
My perspective:
- uBO is good enough by itself
- PB is good enough by itself
- uBO comes with unique features
- PB comes with unique features
- While using uBO with PB may indeed cause some problems like anti-blocker-defusing features to break, it doesn't seem like a big deal for most people
- uBO alone is good, PB alone is good, uBO + PB is also good
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Wow, I apologize, and very interesting! This is some sort of tech version of mansplaining, I guess, lesson learned! I was certain on the PB github or something there was something saying not to use it with uBlock, and likewise on gorhills github, but maybe it was a mandella effect or something. In any case, thanks for the clarification and humbling.
Hey, that's such a nice response, I appreciate it. I think the thing on uBO's side is here on https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock : >Do NOT use uBO with any other content blocker. uBO performs as well as or better than most popular blockers. Other blockers can prevent uBO's privacy or anti-blocker-defusing features from working correctly. My perspective: - uBO is good enough by itself - PB is good enough by itself - uB…
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Eloquently put. ... but I think we may be heading for a new 'golden age' of web animation and gratuitous creativity . Personally, I'm happy to see more crazy animated stuff, it's the corporate dark patterns and bad UX that I hate.
Thanks! Sounds like a reasonable prediction. To me, crazy animated stuff in the wrong context is a component of bad UX. Though I learned web design by interning under a literal Nazi, so my design opinions may be a bit...extreme. Perhaps I could make room in my heart some day for animated cats on personal sites. Clippy is still pushing it. More because of a bunch of bad memories of trying to support people who were in…
Recently I've been playing with webgl, Three JS, SVG and CSS animations - it's all so accessible with AI coding that one's creativity naturally becomes the main thing. Sometimes even vibe coding on my phone - it's a lot of fun, and so yes I'm sure we're also going to get a lot more annoying stuff that gets in the way.