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All browsers so far have come and gone in popularity. Even when it seemed unimaginable.
But today everything but Firefox is Chromium. That's a little different
And 20 years ago everything was IE (at >90% penetration)
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#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cloudflare controls about 19% of websites. Of the websites that use a CDN, 80% of them use Cloudflare [0] (in a note at the bottom of link). [0] https://community.cloudflare.com/t/statistically-speaking-wh...
Afaik, neither of those numbers legally constitute a monopoly and wouldn't qualify for antitrust action.
They should
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#183Any time a large portion of internet traffic is controlled by a single source it brings problems like this with it. All cloudflare has to do is arbitrarily decide who and who can't use the internet and effectively their word becomes law. Like most things it starts with an innocent premise (e.g. "an easy way to stop bad actors") and ends up extended to any number of arbitrary things. Worse, the argument from privacy a…
> Companies like Cloudflare, Google, Meta, etc are the reason anti-trust law exists Only if Cloudflare stops you moving to a competitor.
They [effectively] do prevent you from moving - they're guilty of vendor lock-in and running a passive, public man-in-the-middle attack platform (how many folks are using Cloudflare for DNS - either directly, or because their ISP is?)
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#184So many privacy nuts use Chrome and don't realize this: > What about Google Chrome? > I tried all of the above in Firefox. So I naturally tried to access the same page in Google Chrome to see if I’d still be blocked. Thankfully, I wasn’t. > But of course I wasn’t because Chrome doesn’t have the same privacy- and security-enhancing designs that Firefox does. Chrome will happily collect as much private information abou…
I’m no Google fanboy but I wasn’t satisfied with this: > Chrome will happily collect as much private information about me and my browsing history and share them with select parties, as needed What information does Chrome provide in this scenario that Firefox doesn’t? It feels like backward logic: it worked in Chrome therefore it must be because Chrome gave extra info. In reality it could be a whole bunch of things, s…
I don't mean to support or refuse the author's main points or analysis, but you might like to know that the Chrome team is currently working towards shipping the Topics API. I have strong opinions about it but I will try not to editorialize.
My high-level understanding is that they're going to run an ML model over your browsing history (locally on your device) to build a list of "topics" that you care about. Sites you browse can use the Topics API to pull a set of these interests from the browser to show you "relevant" ads. Mozilla has taken a negative position against this standard.
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Time to switch from PayPal to FedNow. FedNow is run by banks and the Fed, which are regulated as to whom they can refuse to server.
Never seen an online shop accept that, nor do I know if it's open to UK citizens. But thanks
In the UK, you have Single European Payment Area payments. (Despite Brexit, the UK chose to stay within the SEPA zone.) The US didn't have a bank-level national service for consumer to consumer payments until FedNow. Just PayPal, Venmo, etc., which are second-tier services, which becomes an issue when they break.
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m no Google fanboy but I wasn’t satisfied with this: > Chrome will happily collect as much private information about me and my browsing history and share them with select parties, as needed What information does Chrome provide in this scenario that Firefox doesn’t? It feels like backward logic: it worked in Chrome therefore it must be because Chrome gave extra info. In reality it could be a whole bunch of things, s…
I don't mean to support or refuse the author's main points or analysis, but you might like to know that the Chrome team is currently working towards shipping the Topics API. I have strong opinions about it but I will try not to editorialize. My high-level understanding is that they're going to run an ML model over your browsing history (locally on your device) to build a list of "topics" that you care about. Sites yo…
How is that relevant to the topic?
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#187Users in Egypt are unable to visit my Fitness website https://musclewiki.com Cloudflare is a huge part of the internet. Often they won't respond and it appears that for whatever reason, their IP range is blocked in Egypt. We probably get 10 support emails per week. I contacted Cloudflare and they simply said there is nothing they can do.
Sounds like you should stop using Cloudflare
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#188Hi there, I'm the PM for Cloudflare's challenge platform. I'd love to look into what the cause of the problem is, so you don't see these difficulties. > Cloudflare detected the high frequency of requests and denials (but not their faulty loop that caused this pattern of requests, of course), and tagged my browser as suspicious. I can tell you at least that we don't penalize users for this looping behavior, so this wo…
I have noticed that on StarLink some sites behind CF go into "prove you are human" loops that are impassable.
What causes such loops? Just a challenge over and over.
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#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't mean to support or refuse the author's main points or analysis, but you might like to know that the Chrome team is currently working towards shipping the Topics API. I have strong opinions about it but I will try not to editorialize. My high-level understanding is that they're going to run an ML model over your browsing history (locally on your device) to build a list of "topics" that you care about. Sites yo…
How is that relevant to the topic?
You asked:
>> Chrome will happily collect as much private information about me and my browsing history and share them with select parties, as needed
> What information does Chrome provide in this scenario that Firefox doesn’t?
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're basically saying this behavior is acceptable and should be considered normal and should be expected to become the norm. If you think IPv6 is mostly pointless, I think you're unaware of the fact that a significant majority of phones already use IPv6 most of the time they're on cellular.
> You're basically saying this behavior is acceptable and should be considered normal and should be expected to become the norm. If you think IPv6 is mostly pointless, I think you're unaware of the fact that a significant majority of phones already use IPv6 most of the time they're on cellular. Can you point to where I suggested that? Or did you misread the comment?
He quoted you:
>it does seem to indicate that IPv6 is mostly pointless for human users for exactly this reason