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Re: Anonymous Source Shared Leaked Google Search API Documents

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Post by GuB-42 »

JSDevOps wrote: post #12

Seriously considering switching back to Firefox after all these years.

I have used both for many years, and now, I see little difference in practice. I am leaning more towards Firefox these days. Main change is that I now use Firefox as my main mobile browser for ad blocking reasons. A few websites don't work on Firefox, I use Chrome for these few.

I don't consider it a problem to use two browsers at the same time, I usually don't to the same thing with them, so having separate profiles can be an advantage.

Note that privacy is not the reason why I am using Firefox. It is just that I think that knowing both is a good thing, and they are both good browsers, so why not? In some case, Firefox is better, in others Chrome is better, most of the times, they are interchangeable.

Re: Anonymous Source Shared Leaked Google Search API Documents

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Post by lioeters »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #225
cauefcr wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Singleton

Factory

Singleton Factory, good one, haha. It was worth fending off the downvotes to reach that punchline.

EDIT: I just searched this term and it actually exists. Sometimes I despair of my chosen profession.

Re: Anonymous Source Shared Leaked Google Search API Documents

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Post by thsksbd »

staticman2 wrote: post #237
jareklupinski wrote: post #230

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> how a card catalog improved the world i was lamenting the library recently and remembered how books were organized on shelves using the dewey decimal system this meant that if you knew of one book that has something you're looking for, you can find all the _other_ books about the same topic right next to the first book, even if you knew nothing about the contents of the related books

Libraries still exist and sort books like that, don't they?

They're being ripped down and replaced by coffee shops with plugs and wifi

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Post by brokenmachine »

dmitrygr wrote: post #119
brokenmachine wrote: post #111

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Worked for me when I've used it in Firefox. What isn't working?

Try ordering a PCB or seeing the list of house parts for PCBA

Not sure where the list of parts is, but I've ordered PCBs using Firefox.

Re: Anonymous Source Shared Leaked Google Search API Documents

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Post by WhyNotHugo »

JSDevOps wrote: post #12

Seriously considering switching back to Firefox after all these years.

Firefox is better than Chrome [in the privacy aspect]... but still pretty terrible.

It sends a lot of "analytics" and "tracking" to some of Mozilla's servers, but if you inspect the requests, those servers are actually behind Google's CDN,and Google does the TLS termination.

So... Google has access too all the data that Mozilla sends when it phones home. Some of it even has a unique identifying id.

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Post by [deleted] »

kulshan wrote: post #88
ralfn wrote: post #24

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Yeah. It's victim blaming. Reminds me of "they should have shouted louder". The confusing thing is the crime itself is small on an individual level. The question is: does it add up cumulatively if a small crime is committed against many?

I don't know if it's "Victim Blaming"...I teach Digital Literacy courses for seniors new to technology. While I do set them up with Firefox and Ublock, we generally have them use Gmail as they are all Android Devices. Google sends a confirmation email to walk each one of them through their security settings. Of course most users just ignore this email (like I used to have students do) but now we go through it and unc…

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Post by barbariangrunge »

olliej wrote: post #10
dgellow wrote: post #5

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Any user, not just developers

Developers just replaced IE as the only thing they develop for with chrome, users then _have_ to use chrome because of web developers who only develop for chrome and consider any behaviour other than "it works in chrome" as a bug in other browsers, just as they did with IE. Then there's the relentless parade of "alternative browsers" that are just chrome skins - a period IE also went through - that intentionally try…

It became trendy recently to break compatibility with Firefox. Blogs almost bragging about how they boldly made the choice. Very embarrassing stuff

Re: Anonymous Source Shared Leaked Google Search API Documents

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Post by dmitrygr »

brokenmachine wrote: post #264
dmitrygr wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try ordering a PCB or seeing the list of house parts for PCBA

Not sure where the list of parts is, but I've ordered PCBs using Firefox.

I used to as well, sometimes it works and sometimes nothing on the page is clickable. New FF profile does not help, chrome works every time and their support has told me many times "we only chrome support sir"

Re: Anonymous Source Shared Leaked Google Search API Documents

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Post by bobthepanda »

phone8675309 wrote: post #197
p3rls wrote: post #79

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Many of the SEO suspicions were confirmed too. I found it VERY amusing if you go to r/SEO just yesterday there were moderators and flaired users (you know, the elites of the SEO community, lol) insisting much of this was "debunked" years ago. They of course deleted their posts, but the threads are still up. What a den of scammers over there. https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/1d1eqjj/comment/l5tvfw... https://www.…

SEO is vandalism and I one day hope the majority of Internet users see that

Most people are aware but are powerless to do anything about it.
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