Technology

Both leaving reddit and leaving google s.e. were two things that I thought would be harder than they were.

This is something I wrote in another thread earlier but it's relevant here too

A security guy popular in the internet, Ollam, recently left Delta's program because they are changing it to be more pay to play vs miles traveled or something. Delta walked it back but he's sticking to his guns. In his rant, he said something poignant. Something to the effect of "if your significant other raises their hand like they're gonna hit you, but they don't? The time to leave is now." (Video)

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I replaced gmail with protonmail and everything else with nextcloud. Couldn't go back.

This is literally going to be what they did for FLoC. Basically release it as topics.

Google absolutely cannot stop tracking everyone at this point. I'm pretty sure they've put the entire house on the bet to track people more and do everything to ensure that Google Chrome tracks every aspect of your web browsing experience.

So while WEI is dead, I think Google's boat is so far out to sea now that it's either try this again a bit more gently or watch the ship sink. Everyone said FLoC was dead and they absolutely put it into the web browser with Topics. Nothing convinces me this is any different, they are absolutely going to, and I dare say have an existential need to, put this shit in everyone's browser.

They get the permissions for the little thing that is worded vaguely enough to them funnel people into the larger thing

I've been using Firefox since it was Mozilla.

What's funny is how these companies refer to ads as if it's something we should be excited about.

"Good news! We're implementing a new ad delivery feature for your enjoyment! You can now choose what ads to watch, yay!"

more like they realised that the Irish data protection officer looked like they were gonna side with privacy advocates over anti-adblock, which is a precursor (and main usecase of) this API

The most likely option is that they will rebrand and we will have to push back against a "completely new, completely different functionality" in a few months.

My money is on zero. They'll comment it out and then turn it back on when no one is looking.

The mainstream web... yes.

The back of the house has never been fucking better. Mastodon changed the game. Why hang out at some asshole's website, hating the website, lacking features and full of advertisements to suck you dry, when you can just come down to the flea market of federated social media and shoot the shit with someone real?

And then later edited to

“~~don’t be evil, but~~ greedy and posessive is okay”

That's the problem. They could have made it a requirement for a site to work in Chrome. And since Chrome has such a majority sites would have to comply. Then the other browsers would have to fall in line or just stop working with most websites. Google's monopoly is complete enough that they can dictate how the web works. You need to both care what chrome does and care that other people are still using it or you're just as fucked as they are.