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Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google integration

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Post by shawn »

daxorid wrote: post #320
shawn wrote: post #73

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It would be great, wouldn't it? That sounds delightful, and I would be happy to. Just one quick question: Why was my account rate limited solely for commenting – substantively, on-topic, and in an intellectually gratifying way – about incels? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18012416 Why was this thread collapsed solely for saying "I only see depressed men on /r/braincels, not really much hatred?" https://news.yc…

Thank you for your contributions to this site, Shawn. The thoughtcrime enforcement is unfortunate. There are plenty who silently agree with you, but are afraid to even so much as upvote for obvious reasons. Thanks again.

I just wanted to say, thank you for this. I was beginning to wonder whether anyone in the world cared.

I’ll be running a series of experiments over the coming week to test how ruthlessly a ban curtails someone’s ability to speak. Dan’s hypothesis is that this “probation” isn’t much different from normal HN: users vouch good comments, so why not write good comments? My hypothesis is that orders of magnitude fewer people will read them, so there is no point.

I’m also dusting off my old HN clone, Lambda News. Watch for https://news.ycombinator.lol within the next month.

The idea is for it to be a real-time clone of HN’s stories. That way people can switch news.ycombinator.com to news.ycombinator.lol and then say whatever they want.

LN’s rules are identical to HN’s (and we’ll be enforcing them just as effectively), but intellectual curiosity won’t get you a visit from the Stasi.

Re: Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google integration

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Post by sneak »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #262
sneak wrote: post #121

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Switching email providers is of little use for privacy from Google when everyone you correspond with is also using Google.

And if everyone says that, then no one will ever leave.

False. I say that (and know it’s true) and I host my personal email elsewhere, knowing that it is a waste of money and an empty gesture.

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Post by robdachshund »

commoner wrote: post #303
brownbat wrote: post #124

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Just installed Vivaldi. Wow. Thanks. You can hold shift to select multiple tabs and then do all these operations, like mute them all, group them, display them tiled... and I feel like I'm just scratching the surface. It feels like the last time there was a big feature competition between all the browsers. Feature snapshots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4wyvKMRVeY&list=PL72e6dBabY...

Firefox also supports multiple tab selection with the Ctrl or Command key. This feature was added in version 62. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1458010

Firefox installs extensions by itself, gives money to companies that support ANTIFA, and you're lucky if a bunch of malware extensions don't mysteriously install themselves. Vivaldi is the way to go.

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iv597 wrote: post #314
mosselman wrote: post #305

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How is it not? I remember being bombarded with news along the lines of 'New Firefox is blazingly fast!'. Which one is that? How do I get a version that has the new engine?

The part that shipped was Electrolysis which splits the formerly giant-single-processed Firefox into a set of 1-9 processes which work as task pools for tabs. Locking one tab hard will lock only that tab, and any others sharing that Electrolysis worker I believe. The new upcoming part is Servo, the rendering engine written in Rust.

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Post by _corym »

lawl wrote: post #131
mythz wrote: post #128

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It blocks ads by default and from all I've read replaces it with their own against publishers wishes: https://www.businessinsider.com/newspaper-publishers-send-ce... https://www.wired.com/2016/04/brave-software-publishers-resp... Where is the opt-in from the website who are getting their ads blocked/replaced?

Brave certainly blocks ads by default, I personally don't see a problem with that. Users can't install adblocker addons in browsers, not much different than downloading an adblocking-by-default browser. I can't immediately find a source for the publisher opt-in thing. But brave definitely hasn't been doing anything like that in 2016 as your articles suggest, because they only just started now with beta testing brave…

Since it's going to be using chromium as a base then theoretically you could install whatever extensions you want to it right now, but that's still in beta

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Post by niftylettuce »

niftylettuce wrote: post #242

Great Chromium extensions you can get from GitHub: mkdir ungoogle-chromium-extensions cd ungoogled-chromium-extensions git clone https://github.com/zenorocha/codecopy git clone https://github.com/philc/vimium.git git clone https://github.com/OctoLinker/OctoLinker.git git clone https://github.com/ilGur1132/Smart-HTTPS.git git clone https://github.com/ovity/octotree.git git clone https://github.com/mrcoles/full-page-sc…

https://github.com/jswanner/DontFuckWithPaste
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