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Re: Mozilla Is Crowdsourcing Research into YouTube Recommendations

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Post by srean »

anjc wrote: post #167
srean wrote: post #166

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> you can select a category Could you tell me how ? Would love to have that feature. They seem to have turned this off.

I'm sorry I don't know how to turn it on. When I go to youtube.com, at the top it has about 15 categories that it has gleaned from my use (e.g. Guitar, Flight Simulators), some of which I'm surprised it learned, as well as All, Mix, Trending. I use Edge and I'm logged in to YouTube.

I know what you are talking about. They had rolled it out in my region and I loved it. Now they seem to have rolled it back

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Post by Funes- »

boomboomsubban wrote: post #169
Funes- wrote: post #147

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>Mozilla is doing a lot of random things these days Yeah, like paying three million to its CEO annually. That's not going into Firefox development alright.

The one who no longer works there? And how do you think they would build and manage a development team without executives?

>The one who no longer works there?

As far as I know, Mitchell Baker is still Mozilla's CEO. And even if she resigned, maintaining her salary would have been at odds with keeping many employees from being fired.

>>I criticize unreasonably high salaries on a nonprofit organization that just laid off almost three hundred people

>"you are saying that they can build and manage a development team without executives"

If you want to engage in a discussion or a debate, at least be honest about it.

Re: Mozilla Is Crowdsourcing Research into YouTube Recommendations

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Post by boomboomsubban »

Funes- wrote: post #172
boomboomsubban wrote: post #169

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The one who no longer works there? And how do you think they would build and manage a development team without executives?

>The one who no longer works there? As far as I know, Mitchell Baker is still Mozilla's CEO. And even if she resigned, maintaining her salary would have been at odds with keeping many employees from being fired. >>I criticize unreasonably high salaries on a nonprofit organization that just laid off almost three hundred people >"you are saying that they can build and manage a development team without executives " If y…

Mitchell Baker began as CEO in December, after the resignation of Chris Beard. Was permanently appointed CEO in April. Her salary for the position has not been released

Mozilla is a nonprofit, not a charity. Their executives already receive less than market rate for similar companies, by some accounts far less. They can't offer nothing.

Re: Mozilla Is Crowdsourcing Research into YouTube Recommendations

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Post by pgt »

satya71 wrote: post #107
rayuela wrote: post #62

Couldn't care less about this. Just put out a paid version of Firefox that dedicates this revenue stream exclusively to continued Firefox development and I will happily pay fist fulls of money for it. Seriously, Firefox adds so much value to my life and I'd happily pay for it.

https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/

I specifically want to fund Firefox, not this kinds of research. I will also pay something for continued Rust development.

Re: Mozilla Is Crowdsourcing Research into YouTube Recommendations

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Post by MaxBarraclough »

boogies wrote: post #111
phreenet wrote: post #102

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Because of this, when I'm sent video links to watch I will open them up in a Private Window / Incognito so I do not pollute my account.

I never use non-private windows, so I use Invidious or mpv for this. I put control + alt + m notify-send "mpv loading $(xclip -o)"; mpv --player-operation-mode=pseudo-gui "$(xclip -o)" || notify-send 'mpv error' in my ~/.config/sxhd/sxhkdrc to conveniently play any youtube-dl supported url I’ve copied or highlighted.

The main Invidious site just shut down, although various alternative Invidious sites still exist.

Re: Mozilla Is Crowdsourcing Research into YouTube Recommendations

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Post by ColanR »

boomboomsubban wrote: post #170
ColanR wrote: post #164

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The difference is, chrome allocates what it needs upfront, and that's all it uses. Firefox keeps increasing its usage. That means that when I want to leave a website open on my server for a month, I use chrome because I know exactly how much memory it's going to use. If it was firefox, at the end of the month even the swap would be filled.

If you try to open something else after that month, does your computer crash or does Firefox happily give up the memory?

The only way to free up the memory is to close firefox. Closing tabs doesn't do anything. I can 'killall firefox' and then reopen it to the same 50 tabs, and the memory usage after they're loaded again will be several GB lower.

I don't know if you count memory exhaustion as a 'crash' per se.

Re: Mozilla Is Crowdsourcing Research into YouTube Recommendations

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Post by boomboomsubban »

ColanR wrote: post #177
boomboomsubban wrote: post #170

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If you try to open something else after that month, does your computer crash or does Firefox happily give up the memory?

The only way to free up the memory is to close firefox. Closing tabs doesn't do anything. I can 'killall firefox' and then reopen it to the same 50 tabs, and the memory usage after they're loaded again will be several GB lower. I don't know if you count memory exhaustion as a 'crash' per se.

Does opening another program cause system instability? I don't know how you are monitoring it, but it sounds like Firefox is making use of the available ram for a cache. There's no real difference between cache and free memory, so using more is only a good thing.

Re: Mozilla Is Crowdsourcing Research into YouTube Recommendations

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Post by ColanR »

boomboomsubban wrote: post #178
ColanR wrote: post #177

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The only way to free up the memory is to close firefox. Closing tabs doesn't do anything. I can 'killall firefox' and then reopen it to the same 50 tabs, and the memory usage after they're loaded again will be several GB lower. I don't know if you count memory exhaustion as a 'crash' per se.

Does opening another program cause system instability? I don't know how you are monitoring it, but it sounds like Firefox is making use of the available ram for a cache. There's no real difference between cache and free memory, so using more is only a good thing.

Yes, it does. Monitoring is easy with htop - just look at the ram and swap usage. Leave FF open too long with too many tabs, and even the swap starts to fill up and the whole computer gets laggy.

This is a well-known problem. What's hard to believe?

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