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Qihoo 360, the Chinese company that brought Opera, recently showed the world why you should never trust Chinese hardware and software. On the outside a browser seem harmless, but Qihoo 360, Alibaba, Tencent and all the other Chinese companies that operate popular browsers, kindly showed the world what they’re capable of when they decided to make the 966 GitHub repo inaccessible to everyone using the Chinese browsers…
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And there's that whole predatory lending business Opera makes a lot of its money from.
Here's an example, right on Google's Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.loan.cash.... Translating their "example" scenario: > For example, for a loan of $1,000 to pay in 91 days, you will have to pay only $82 of interest, a commission of $180 and VAT (16%). The total amount to be paid would be $1,384. CAT: 151.1%, annual interest rate: 21.9%. You get $1000, then three months later you pay i…
It is not fair that usually the poorest pay the price, but the whole system is not fair. And I believe that it is actually financial apps that have some chance to democratize it more.
I do not know about Mexico, but such businesses are usually also regulated, wich is good, because at one end market knows the local conditions like capital cost and risk and at the other they do not fall into usury.
In your example: the bank lending rate in MX is already more than twice than US. Later, if you assume that for new unknown customer the delinquency probability cost has to be fixed in the price, then annualising the rate of short term loan makes it really scary. Such companies usually have better rates for returning customers.
The download link just grabs an .exe file, so I can't test it because I'm not running Windows.
Qihoo 360, the Chinese company that brought Opera, recently showed the world why you should never trust Chinese hardware and software. On the outside a browser seem harmless, but Qihoo 360, Alibaba, Tencent and all the other Chinese companies that operate popular browsers, kindly showed the world what they’re capable of when they decided to make the 966 GitHub repo inaccessible to everyone using the Chinese browsers…
Do you have links to provide about this? I'd like to read more
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it's for market segmentation for advertisers. This way they can sell aggregate data and ad impressions that's targeted to a very specific and profitable segment. Like google's 'flocks' concept, but maybe less moving pieces.
This FLoC? https://github.com/jkarlin/floc
I don't quite get what this is... Is it a gaming platform like steam? They don't list any of the games you can play on it. There are very few details on this page. The download link just grabs an .exe file, so I can't test it because I'm not running Windows.
Opera markets it as a gaming browser because they have some features for web based gaming
Cool, I have absolutely no way of telling what this is or what it does without downloading it first?
What? If you just click the page it tells you pretty efficiently; it's one of the few good marketing pages that exist right now. Literally without scrolling at all: Discover Opera GX CPU, RAM & bandwidth limiters Need every ounce of power your machine can give you? No need to close your browser. GX Control lets you set limits on how much RAM and CPU usage your browser will take up. Choose favourite design and color Y…
I tried Brave for a couple weeks but they didn't support DRM videos, so back I went to Chrome.
I actually really love the idea of browsers tailored towards specific segments. They were made before the dangers of always-on social were super apparent, but I loved the idea of Flock and Rockmelt when they initially came out.
I don't quite get what this is... Is it a gaming platform like steam? They don't list any of the games you can play on it. There are very few details on this page. The download link just grabs an .exe file, so I can't test it because I'm not running Windows.
I guess it can be nice. When I use Safari, it seems some sites can bring my Mac down to its knees occasionally. Especially back when my Mac still had only 8 GB RAM, though recently I upgraded to 24 GB and I don't have many of these issues anymore.