In the early 2000's I used to love Google.
Now I daily find myself saying "Fuck You, Google".
Google has added ads on both its search page and Chrome://newtab
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#312Who still using chrome? Use safari, brave, or Firefox.
It would be cool if Firefox supported modern browser APIs like Chrome does, but they’ve decided not to (web serial).
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#313Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mine too. But it unfortunately doesn't change the fact that Chrome is the most popular browser. Hope its domination, just like anything Google, ends soon though.
I heard that ad blocking will not work after January. I am going to wait until ads actually start appearing in my browser again to switch because the internet is full of bad information but assuming it actually happens I, and all the non tech dependents I influence, will be giving Brave a try. I am attracted to it because it says it blocks ads by default, however I am concerned because it doesn't appear to have even…
If you are on Mac I'd strongly suggest Safari.
If you are on Windows or Linux I'd give Chromium a try. While still bloaty as its the basis of Chrome, it's essentially de-Googlified without anything extra that Brave might bring.
If there is one thing good about Chrome dominance, its that at the end of the day its core Chromium is open source so we can have a non-Google version of it while still being supported.
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#314Earlier quoted context omitted.
What glitches? Can you be more specific?
It sometimes failed to load reaction icons on Linkedin. This was happening for a long time, but seems that either Firefox or Linkedin fixed it. I didn't stumble upon it recently. Firefox don't play MKV videos, I use some site that has embed MKVs. Slack calls didn't work on it (they workaround it). But I had trouble with other sites that use WebRTC in Firefox. This is things I recall at this moment, but I don't want t…
How do you separate which of these are bugs in Firefox and which ones are bugs in the sites that don't test against more than one browser engine? Reminds me of back in the day with the "works best in Internet Explorer" banners.
The MKV thing sounds like a Firefox or codec issue, but I couldn't say. I haven't had issues with MKV or WebM, which is effectively a MKV profile, in many years.
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#315Inflation means the blood boy’s rates go up, too. Are you going to tell the plutocrat they have to live a normal life span???
Now shut up and watch the ads.
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#316Re: Google has added ads on both its search page and Chrome://newtab
#317Stop using Chrome
The entire internet discourse is filled with "Chrome evil, use Firefox" . Go to any browser discussion on the internet and 99% of the thread is "just use Firefox or Firefox is the best". You would think that everyone uses Firefox. The internet is a bubble. Reality is Firefox usage is pathetic. 32 MILLION people have *STOPPED* using Firefox in the past 4 years. The browser only has a 3.16% market share. https://data.f…
It was exactly the same 20 years ago with IE. It was ok, delivered for 70% of the population. There were even browsers built on IE engine, which were awesome at the time (Maxthon had add-ons, ad blocker, tabs).
All was fine until Microsoft didn't start to add their own standards, without any regard for everyone else. If they succeeded, web today would be mess of ActiveX controls and other propertiary extensions.
Web is simply way too important to allow it to become walled garden controlled by single corporation. This is about a lot more than tribalism.
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Say you're a decision-maker at Google (or Any Large Corp). You have a KPI to increase revenue by 5% this year. If you hit this KPI, then you get a bonus. If you get the bonus, then you can afford the thing that your partner has been wanting forever (or that will make your neighbours jealous, or whatever), and you get a happy life. You know that doing X will harm the company in the long term (defined as anything past…
How do we fix this loop in companies? It is a very serious problem for humanity’s future. It exists in government too. How do we reward long-term thinking and decisions?
You have to align the long term growth and wellbeing of the company with the long term prosperity of the employee. This is why stock options with a long term vesting period have become an attractive choice.
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#319> Google has historically been protective of their front page, why now? Probably for the same reason that Google is shutting down Stadia [1] and cutting staff [2], and the same reason that we see roughly one announcement of layoffs here on Hacker News every week: most people expect that we are going into a recession. For example, see the price of major indexes like the S&P 500 or the NASDAQ and plot it on a 10+ year…
> Google has historically been protective of their front page, why now? Unreasonable shareholder expectations of continued double-digit percentage YoY growth. Growth that exceeds internet usage growth in general. The only way that happens is more ads displacing content, or appearing in formerly empty spots. I would guess at this point, they've hit the wall on alternatives like better targeting, placement, etc.
or taking advertising dollars from orher channels like print, outdoor advertising, radio and TV.
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I’d argue that anyone using such confident language to declare a clear definition of one of the most subjective and abstract concepts known to man clearly has some ulterior motive. Political or otherwise.
The definition of recession has always been two quarters of negative gdp growth… very recently the current administration in the US changed the definition so as to not look bad.
NBER is the entity which demarcates the start and end dates of recessions in the US, not the White House.