Best of luck with that.
Best of luck with that.
I mean I’m still out here rawdogging usenet without a vpn. I keep waiting for the great crackdown on usenet but it never comes… Surely that comes before any VPN crackdown.
If you’re making a mil a year in revenue there’s a good chance your profit margin is tiny and licensing fees could obliterate it.
Better performance/more ram would be good too I guess but honestly having a unified platform with fixed specs to target has a lot of benefits.
I am not sure how Manifest V3 is relevant here?
Because they literally tout security as one of the primary reasons for forcing it onto people.
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/intro/
The first line is “A step in the direction of security, privacy, and performance.”
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/mv2-transition/
“Manifest V3 is more secure, performant, and privacy-preserving than its predecessor.”
It’s the first thing they say.
If it doesn’t prevent a malicious extension from lifting your password in perhaps the most dumb and naive way I can think of, then it seems fairly disingenuous to describe it as “secure”.
They use data, just not the data from the customers paying them for enterprise licenses.
Honestly fear of leaking customer data is the only thing that’s kept my work from spunking every single byte of data we have at some LLM service a lazy attempt to come up with a product they can sell with minimal effort. They’re gonna love this shit.
Doing the lord’s work
Ok so it’s my fault that now someone at Intel knows how much porn I look at because I clicked “next” on a beta driver?
They collect:
> The categories of websites you visit, but not the URL itself > > The information collected includes categorized web browsing history that shows how long and how often you visited specific categories of sites (i.e. social media, personal finance, or news). All site visits are classified into one of 30 categories. We do not collect URLs, web pages titles, or user-specific content without explicit permission from you. > > Software usage: for example, frequency and duration of application usage such as Intel® Driver & Support Assistant, but not the application content itself such as specific actions or keyboard input. > > Feature usage: for example, how much RAM you usually use or your laptop’s average battery life. > > Other devices in your computing environment > > Includes universal plug and play devices and devices that broadcast information to your computer on a local area network: for example, smart TV model and vendor information, and video streaming devices.
(the emphasis is mine, as is the minor reordering to not hide the browsing behaviour stuff at the bottom)
Yeah that’ll be a no from me there, bud.
100% on Safari with just Wipr.
I know. I don’t disagree. I’m just tired of everything being desperate to collect invasive amounts of information about me.
Because they invariably record way more data than they need to.
How bout just don’t install privacy-invading data collection services alongside a fucking device driver at all.
Shit no! You know what you can’t change if/when they inevitably leak your data? Your fucking hand.
I had one. Those controllers were incredibly cheap and plasticky.
I mean. Sorta.
When you use some service you have some expectation that they’ll treat you fairly and predictably. Sure their Eula let’s them do whatever the fuck they want legally but that doesn’t change the fact that if they opt take certain actions (like arbitrary taking people’s usernames) then they risk losing user trust.
If the admin just took your username one day would you just quietly accept it? What if they edited or deleted your comments? Would you just shrug and say “well it’s their site they can do what they want” and just walk away?
Look what happened when Spez got caught editing posts on Reddit, for example. Massive user outcry.
Dude’s allowed to be annoyed about it.
You can access the option elements inside the select via the dom and style them there. In most browsers on a Mac (which that looks like?) those selects are actually implemented as separate windows - not even part of the browser, so you’re going to struggle to access them directly.
With the big chunk of alumunium? I don’t think they actually improve cooling (certainly, the fan doesn’t run any less), they just put the heat in a place where you can accidentally rest your fingers on it.
It’s not subscription business models that will be affected by this, it’s ad-supported ones.
The problem is you’re running Chrome now*. Google are in the process of severely restricting the mechanism by which adblockers work in Chrome and its derived browsers - so it’s happening now. The only viable alternative left is Firefox, if Google manage to get this proposal past then there’s nothing stopping ad-supported sites from forcing you to use Chrome or another browser they know they can serve you ads with. Those types of sites are already comfortable with aggressive anti-adblock tech so no doubt they’ll be comfortable with this too.
Switch to Firefox!
* statistically speaking!
Interesting thread. But I don’t understand why the data needs to be collected and correlated by a third party, can’t the ads themselves detect views and clicks? (that’s what they need right?)
Or am I missing something about the process?