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Different browsers for different tasks. 99% of surfing happens on firefox. Some sites like vimeo only work in chrome.
Vimeo works with youtube-dl. Probably VLC. Video viewing (as opposed to previewing) really belongs outside the browser anyway.
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Armin here, the developer of Search by Image. After that experience I felt it's necessary to share the entire discussion. That is how Google treats developers in exchange for enriching their platform, with a list of nonsense allegations, and if you speak up, retaliation. This practice is well documented at this point, and the best way out for those targeted is to hold your head down and maybe plead for help on social…
On the other hand, blindly accepting browser extension upgrades is a huge security vulnerability. There was a post some time ago about how popular extension projects often get bought by adware/spyware companies and they were able to publish malicious changes directly to user's browsers without any validation.
no love for safari here? everything is great about it except for lack of profiles
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I mean... in some ways yeah? I have to run a dedicated Win10 box because native Office automation is a huge part of what I do. I've had to go to lengths to get the LTSB (and am working on the LTSC) license because it's the only version of Win10 that's controllable + secure. I also have a 2015 MBP for my Adobe Creative Suite workflow. All of my dev infra is Debian 10. Best tool for the job yo. I'm not going to bury my…
Different browsers for different tasks. 99% of surfing happens on firefox. Some sites like vimeo only work in chrome.
If my split was different I'd feel quite different about it... I just need Hangouts, Mapbox, YouTube, etc to work 100% of the time without headache. Also running two browsers was difficult because it's like "where's that darn tab!!!" half the time ha.
My solution to this crap is to eventually do something like a pihole setup upstream from the browser and call it a day.
Fixed: https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/dgoymg/warning_ubo_... > Hey all, I'm Simeon, the developer advocate for Chrome extensions. This morning I heard from the review team; they've approved the current draft so next publish should go through. Unfortunately it's the weekend, so most folks are out, but I'm planning to follow up with u/gorhill4 with more details once I have them.
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How about applying such regulatory process to discussion/news boards like Hacker News and Reddit? I posted a critical inquiry to a thread where China was being rightfully accused of human rights violations about our own (America’s own) human rights violations from our border detention camps, child separation, and denying medicine to detainees, among various other atrocities like destabilizing countries around the wor…
HN's standard is clear: this is a site for intellectual curiosity. Everything else follows. It isn't for flamewars, and while some political overlap is inevitable, comments must be thoughtful and substantive. Using the site primarily for political battle is not allowed, nor is flamebait (nationalistic flamebait in particular), and you can't take a thread off on inflammatory tangents, as you just did with this comment here. (I detached it from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21233229 and marked it off-topic.)
Does that mean HN is or isn't "some sort of open discussion space where critical questioning is allowed"? That depends on how you define that. If by "open" you mean open to arbitrary flamewar, HN is not. Such discussion spaces destroy themselves pretty quickly, so it's not clear how "open" they remain in the long run anyhow. HN's goal, from the beginning, has been not to destroy itself in this way.
You write a useful app, publish it on your own web page, and distributors will actually come to your website, check the app, review it, build it for you, even for multiple archs sometimes, and distribute it via worldwide network of mirrors. There are even many competing distributions, so no single one has power to exclude you, users can download your app from your website and use it too, etc. Nobody will be able to stop them.
For projects where there's no money in distribution, like those mentioned here, it's like a developer heaven.
And next time someone will talk to me about how fragmentation in the Linux distribution ecosystem is bad, and that there are too many distributions, etc... I'm really glad there are, because if alternative is this amount of power accumullated in single hands, and this kind of behavior, then that is not desirable.
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Switching browsers is easy. I have 3 on my desktop. This is a non issue for me. But I agree with your premise, Apple has been pulling this for a decade, consumers and developers all lose.
Safari has only weak protections, basically url-level blocking equivalent to Pihole. Last I checked ublock origin does allow blocking elements by DOM selector. One day ads will start being plexed with content over websockets and the DOM-level protections will be all we have. Firefox is really the only alternative here.
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FF has never been rock solid for me. Massive CPU usage. Causes my fans to turn on on any MacBook I’ve ever had.
Same experience here. Browsing with Firefox increases my CPU temperature by 10 degrees.
