technology Technology Europe wants easy default browser selection screens. Mozilla is already sounding the alarm on dirty tricks
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    Anemervi
    12 months ago 100%

    The latest trick is they ignore the default choice completely and open all links in Outlook in edge anyhow, also they are sending notifications saying to use edge or get less battery time.

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  • technology Technology Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google
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    Anemervi
    1 year ago 100%

    If you need more ammunition they recently also changed it so all links in Outlook opens in Edge even if it's not the default browser. You have to go to settings and find an entirely separate default browser setting to stop it.

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  • linux Linux I switched from Windows 10 to Linux. Its great!
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    Anemervi
    1 year ago 100%

    As far as I'm aware WS is pretty close to what you get by just using virtalbox (with an easier setup) so you could do that on Linux. With Linux you also have more advanced solutions though like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubes_OS

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  • firefox Firefox [It's FOSS News] Google's New Web Environment Integrity Proposal Dismissed by Brave, Mozilla, and Vivaldi
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    1 year ago 100%

    Write to your country’s anti-trust body if you feel Google is unilaterally going after the open web with WEI (content below taken from HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36880390).

    US:

    https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/report-antitrust-violation
    antitrust@ftc.gov
    

    EU:

    https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/antitrust/contact_en
    comp-greffe-antitrust@ec.europa.eu
    

    UK:

    https://www.gov.uk/guidance/tell-the-cma-about-a-competition…
    general.enquiries@cma.gov.uk
    

    India:

    https://www.cci.gov.in/antitrust/
    https://www.cci.gov.in/filing/atd
    

    Example email:

    Google has proposed a new Web Environment Integrity standard, outlined here: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md
    
    This standard would allow Google applications to block users who are not using Google products like Chrome or Android, and encourages other web developers to do the same, with the goal of eliminating ad blockers and competing web browsers.
    
    Google has already begun implementing this in their browser here: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/6f47a22906b2899412e79a2727355efa9cc8f5bd
    
    Basic facts:
    
        Google is a developer of popular websites such as google.com and youtube.com (currently the two most popular websites in the world according to SimilarWeb)
        Google is the developer of the most popular browser in the world, Chrome, with around 65% of market share. Most other popular browsers are based on Chromium, also developed primarily by Google.
        Google is the developer of the most popular mobile operating system in the world, Android, with around 70% of market share.
    
    Currently, Google’s websites can be viewed on any web-standards-compliant browser on a device made by any manufacturer. This WEI proposal would allow Google websites to reject users that are not running a Google-approved browser on a Google-approved device. For example, Google could require that Youtube or Google Search can only be viewed using an official Android app or the Chrome browser, thereby noncompetitively locking consumers into using Google products while providing no benefit to those consumers.
    
    Google is also primarily an ad company, with the majority of its revenue coming from ads. Google’s business model is challenged by browsers that do not show ads the way Google intends. This proposal would encourage any web developer using Google’s ad services to reject users that are not running a verified Google-approved version of Chrome, to ensure ads are viewed the way the advertiser wishes. This is not a hypothetical hidden agenda, it is explicitly stated in the proposal:
    
    “Users like visiting websites that are expensive to create and maintain, but they often want or need to do it without paying directly. These websites fund themselves with ads, but the advertisers can only afford to pay for humans to see the ads, rather than robots. This creates a need for human users to prove to websites that they’re human, sometimes through tasks like challenges or logins.”
    
    The proposed solution here is to allow web developers to reject any user that cannot prove they have viewed Google-served ads with their own human eyes.
    
    It is essential to combat this proposal now, while it is still in an early stage. Once this is rolled out into Chrome and deployed around the world, it will be extremely difficult to rollback. It may be impossible to prevent this proposal if Google is allowed to continue owning the entire stack of website, browser, operating system, and hardware.
    
    Thank you for your consideration of this important issue.
    
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  • technology Technology Google's Web DRM is Worse than I Thought...
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    1 year ago 98%

    Write to your country’s anti-trust body if you feel Google is unilaterally going after the open web with WEI (content below taken from HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36880390).

    US:

    https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/report-antitrust-violation
    antitrust@ftc.gov
    

    EU:

    https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/antitrust/contact_en
    comp-greffe-antitrust@ec.europa.eu
    

    UK:

    https://www.gov.uk/guidance/tell-the-cma-about-a-competition…
    general.enquiries@cma.gov.uk
    

    India:

    https://www.cci.gov.in/antitrust/
    https://www.cci.gov.in/filing/atd
    

    Example email:

    Google has proposed a new Web Environment Integrity standard, outlined here: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md
    
    This standard would allow Google applications to block users who are not using Google products like Chrome or Android, and encourages other web developers to do the same, with the goal of eliminating ad blockers and competing web browsers.
    
    Google has already begun implementing this in their browser here: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/6f47a22906b2899412e79a2727355efa9cc8f5bd
    
    Basic facts:
    
        Google is a developer of popular websites such as google.com and youtube.com (currently the two most popular websites in the world according to SimilarWeb)
        Google is the developer of the most popular browser in the world, Chrome, with around 65% of market share. Most other popular browsers are based on Chromium, also developed primarily by Google.
        Google is the developer of the most popular mobile operating system in the world, Android, with around 70% of market share.
    
    Currently, Google’s websites can be viewed on any web-standards-compliant browser on a device made by any manufacturer. This WEI proposal would allow Google websites to reject users that are not running a Google-approved browser on a Google-approved device. For example, Google could require that Youtube or Google Search can only be viewed using an official Android app or the Chrome browser, thereby noncompetitively locking consumers into using Google products while providing no benefit to those consumers.
    
    Google is also primarily an ad company, with the majority of its revenue coming from ads. Google’s business model is challenged by browsers that do not show ads the way Google intends. This proposal would encourage any web developer using Google’s ad services to reject users that are not running a verified Google-approved version of Chrome, to ensure ads are viewed the way the advertiser wishes. This is not a hypothetical hidden agenda, it is explicitly stated in the proposal:
    
    “Users like visiting websites that are expensive to create and maintain, but they often want or need to do it without paying directly. These websites fund themselves with ads, but the advertisers can only afford to pay for humans to see the ads, rather than robots. This creates a need for human users to prove to websites that they’re human, sometimes through tasks like challenges or logins.”
    
    The proposed solution here is to allow web developers to reject any user that cannot prove they have viewed Google-served ads with their own human eyes.
    
    It is essential to combat this proposal now, while it is still in an early stage. Once this is rolled out into Chrome and deployed around the world, it will be extremely difficult to rollback. It may be impossible to prevent this proposal if Google is allowed to continue owning the entire stack of website, browser, operating system, and hardware.
    
    Thank you for your consideration of this important issue.
    
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  • technology Technology Your Computer Should Say What You Tell It To Say - Google is adding code to Chrome that will send tamper-proof information about your operating system and other software, and share it with websites
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    Anemervi
    1 year ago 100%

    Write to your country’s anti-trust body if you feel Google is unilaterally going after the open web with WEI (content below taken from HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36880390).

    US:

    https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/report-antitrust-violation
    antitrust@ftc.gov
    

    EU:

    https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/antitrust/contact_en
    comp-greffe-antitrust@ec.europa.eu
    

    UK:

    https://www.gov.uk/guidance/tell-the-cma-about-a-competition…
    general.enquiries@cma.gov.uk
    

    India:

    https://www.cci.gov.in/antitrust/
    https://www.cci.gov.in/filing/atd
    

    Example email:

    Google has proposed a new Web Environment Integrity standard, outlined here: https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md
    
    This standard would allow Google applications to block users who are not using Google products like Chrome or Android, and encourages other web developers to do the same, with the goal of eliminating ad blockers and competing web browsers.
    
    Google has already begun implementing this in their browser here: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/6f47a22906b2899412e79a2727355efa9cc8f5bd
    
    Basic facts:
    
        Google is a developer of popular websites such as google.com and youtube.com (currently the two most popular websites in the world according to SimilarWeb)
        Google is the developer of the most popular browser in the world, Chrome, with around 65% of market share. Most other popular browsers are based on Chromium, also developed primarily by Google.
        Google is the developer of the most popular mobile operating system in the world, Android, with around 70% of market share.
    
    Currently, Google’s websites can be viewed on any web-standards-compliant browser on a device made by any manufacturer. This WEI proposal would allow Google websites to reject users that are not running a Google-approved browser on a Google-approved device. For example, Google could require that Youtube or Google Search can only be viewed using an official Android app or the Chrome browser, thereby noncompetitively locking consumers into using Google products while providing no benefit to those consumers.
    
    Google is also primarily an ad company, with the majority of its revenue coming from ads. Google’s business model is challenged by browsers that do not show ads the way Google intends. This proposal would encourage any web developer using Google’s ad services to reject users that are not running a verified Google-approved version of Chrome, to ensure ads are viewed the way the advertiser wishes. This is not a hypothetical hidden agenda, it is explicitly stated in the proposal:
    
    “Users like visiting websites that are expensive to create and maintain, but they often want or need to do it without paying directly. These websites fund themselves with ads, but the advertisers can only afford to pay for humans to see the ads, rather than robots. This creates a need for human users to prove to websites that they’re human, sometimes through tasks like challenges or logins.”
    
    The proposed solution here is to allow web developers to reject any user that cannot prove they have viewed Google-served ads with their own human eyes.
    
    It is essential to combat this proposal now, while it is still in an early stage. Once this is rolled out into Chrome and deployed around the world, it will be extremely difficult to rollback. It may be impossible to prevent this proposal if Google is allowed to continue owning the entire stack of website, browser, operating system, and hardware.
    
    Thank you for your consideration of this important issue.
    
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  • firefox Firefox I have finally achieved my lifelong dream of getting Firefox down to only 1 bar along the top.
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    Anemervi
    1 year ago 100%

    They got MS Edge like vertical tabs

    To be fair, vertical tabs has been possible in Firefox for way longer than Edge has even existed. For example this add-on is more than a decade old.

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  • worldnews World News The back-to-office backfire: Companies ending WFH perks lose out on top talent, who view flexible work as equivalent to an 8% raise
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    Anemervi
    1 year ago 100%
    • You might need to buy additional food
    • Wear and tear of work attire
    • Might need to pay extra for someone to watch pet/child

    Also there are additional costs of time

    • Extra time shaving or similar (if you know you are staying home some things can be delayed a bit)
    • Possibly extra time to prepare food
    • Traffic/weather delays
    • Extra effort for small things easily manage while at home e.g accepting deliveries, watching pets or opening for maintenance workers

    That's of the top of my head, so 1 hour lost per day is a low estimate.

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  • technology Technology Google’s Plan To DRM The Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For
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    Anemervi
    1 year ago 100%

    It's not uncommon for such sites to work fine in Firefox if you just add a user agent switcher addon, so that is worth trying (can be limited to specific sites so you advertise Firefox usage for others).

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  • technology Technology Google’s Plan To DRM The Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For
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    Anemervi
    1 year ago 100%

    I’m not sure there’s anything we can do at this point.

    Best case might be if we could get EU to ban it.

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  • support
    Lemmy.world Support Anemervi 1 year ago 100%
    Lemmy.world error page

    This is the current error page: >Error! > There was an error on the server. Try refreshing your browser. If that doesn't work, come back at a later time. If the problem persists, you can seek help in the [Lemmy support community](https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support) or [Lemmy Matrix room](https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support). The links both point to the same place so that should probably be fixed. I think it would be a good idea to add some more Lemmy.world specific info there like https://lemmy-world.statuspage.io/ instead of just a general Lemmy message. Other options could be a Lemmy.world mastodon news feed or a backup support community on another Lemmy instance.

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    privacy Privacy Google is already pushing WEI(DRM Webpage) into Chromium
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    Anemervi
    1 year ago 100%

    One way to hide it for Firefox users.

    <p class="not-firefox-warning">
        This site is designed for <a href="https://firefox.com/">Firefox</a>,
        a web browser that respects your privacy.
    </p>
    <style>
    @-moz-document url-prefix() {  .not-firefox-warning { display: none; }}
    </style>
    
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  • nextfuckinglevel Next Fucking Level She wrote all this code by hand to take humanity to the Moon
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    1 year ago 80%

    Also the code is much shorter than that, the pile in this picture is just everything they had laying around at that time, so maybe different revisions or just copies. The code they used is like 1-2 of those in length.

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  • pcmasterrace PC Master Race DDoS attack on Blizzard leads to more calls for a Diablo 4 offline mode
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    1 year ago 100%

    How do you know that no one who has played PoE has needed/wanted offline mode?

    Personally I don't play PoE because of their policy on respeccing. An offline mode would likely make it possible for me to bypass that with mods.

    Speaking of mods D2 had awesome ones so it's sad 3, 4 & PoE are so locked down with the online mode to prevent this.

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    Hearthstone Anemervi 1 year ago 100%
    Can you figure out the clue for the next expansion?

    [https://twitter.com/PlayHearthstone/status/1673375572695695360](https://twitter.com/PlayHearthstone/status/1673375572695695360)

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    lemmy Lemmy There should be a porn tag separate from the nsfw tag
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    1 year ago 100%

    So maybe a tag system where each tag also has a type. E.g. NSFW, flair, category, where each type have multiple possible tags. Also maybe some tags can be set by the poster and some can be set by mods or maybe they could even be set by the users where the top-n most chosen are visible on the post.

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  • lemmyworld Lemmy.World Announcements Bookmark tip for Lemmy in Firefox
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    Anemervi
    1 year ago 66%

    This works in Chrome as well, also this is a nice (firefox) addon to go along with it so you can select text and right click to use one of your keywords.

    You can also combine it with bookmarklets for more advanced things like

    javascript:void(location.href='http://www.google.com/search?&q=site:'+location.href.split(%22/%22)[2]+'+%s')

    Which lets you search the current site using google.

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  • lemmyworld Lemmy.World Announcements Don't know if this has been mentioned, but the three dot menu on posts is not working.
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    Anemervi
    1 year ago 100%

    Does nothing for me if I'm on post list but on this page/post I can click it and then I see a new "View source" button. I think the site might be having some more issues though (maybe because a large part of reddit went down). Saving comments is really slow for me and if I try to view Top all it keeps switching to showing new posts instead.

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