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Im_Special posted:Same question really, with this new API we have to use, what are the privacy implications of all this now? Is Google able to better track us now, I'm not a fan of making things easier for Google. Why do you think they invented QUIC rather than using SCTP(over UDP, optionally) when the reference implementation for that has existed in FreeBSD since version 7?
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My question is why should we have to make our own API keys. Why can't someone just make a new one for the script, and replace the old one?
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Kheldarn posted:My question is why should we have to make our own API keys. Why can't someone just make a new one for the script, and replace the old one? Probably because there are limits to how much each key can be used before Google wants money for it.
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Powered Descent posted:So if everyone will be using their own API key for this now, then that means we're identifying ourselves to Google (or at the very least handing them a nice clear fingerprint) every time we load a page, anywhere on the Internet, that has a youtube link? Yikes. That ship has kinda sailed my dude. This forum doesn't work if you block ajax.googleapis.com so google already knows you are reading this thread. Kheldarn posted:My question is why should we have to make our own API keys. Why can't someone just make a new one for the script, and replace the old one? I will PM the API key I made to anyone that wants it. Google can track all of us together. (Warning: possibly that means *I* could theoretically track what videos people watch, but I don't know if it works like that and can't be bothered to figure it out. Anyways, I won't look.)
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Klyith posted:That ship has kinda sailed my dude. This forum doesn't work if you block ajax.googleapis.com so google already knows you are reading this thread. Yes, but if you weren't logged in to google, or were using first-party isolation, then it's a lot harder for google to correlate those requests into their profile of you. Now, every time you visit a page with a youtube link, even if you don't play any of the videos, you're telling google "hi, this is the owner of API key #12345-23456, also known as my-real-name@gmail.com, please give me the title and thumbnail image for the following videos". And then, because you looked at a few discussions in D&D, they start to assume you're a Trump fan, because he features so heavily in your requests. And if you go to forums.your-odd-fetish.com, if anyone posts youtube links, suddenly they know you're into [whatever]. They don't even need to fingerprint you to figure out who you are, you're handing them your identity with every single request. This happens whether you're logged in to google or not, and despite any anti-tracking measures you've taken. Even if you make a brand-new google account for the api key, unless you're very careful, it's still going to be highly correlatable to you. Apologies for the  , but it's never safe to assume Google isn't tracking the hell out of you.Kheldarn posted:My question is why should we have to make our own API keys. Why can't someone just make a new one for the script, and replace the old one? This would be the best solution (assuming there are no per-key traffic limits or anything like that), but unless the original author of the script comes back and does this in the official code, good luck getting everyone in the world who uses Youtube Link Title to agree on which key to use.
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Ola posted:Probably because there are limits to how much each key can be used before Google wants money for it. Hmm... that's a possibility I didn't think of. Powered Descent posted:This would be the best solution (assuming there are no per-key traffic limits or anything like that), but unless the original author of the script comes back and does this in the official code, good luck getting everyone in the world who uses Youtube Link Title to agree on which key to use. From what I can tell, nobody's done it. If someone does it, and uploads it to GitHub/GreasyFork/etc, and announces it on Reddit before anyone else, chances are it'll be the one everyone uses. But then again, it's the internet, and it could just as easily go a different way...
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Powered Descent posted:Apologies for the Its not tinfoil at all. What kind of idiot doesn't think that at this point? 2013 - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/14/google-gmail-users-privacy-email-lawsuit 2014 - https://www.salon.com/2014/03/26/big_brother_is_here_google_mass_surveillance_and_the_rise_of_the_internet_of_things_partner/ 2013 - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-googles-spying-on-use_b_3530296 quote:Let's start with data collection itself. While the legal basis for the NSA collection has been challenged, both the courts and Congressional Committees overseeing the collection have generally approved the program. Compare that to companies like Google, which have violated the law repeatedly to collect user data. None of this is todays news. People need to get this through their heads.
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Is anyone aware of any decent Iridium alternatives now that the developer has put development on hold indefinitely? I don't think there's anything that has broken yet (or I just don't watch much Youtube), but knowing Google sooner or later it surely will.
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Doesn't TorBrowser do everything that people are using Iridium and such for?
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Fangs404 posted:That was my question as well. Notifications are built into Gmail. Really? Never got one until I installed an addon.
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I'm assuming you need to keep a gmail tab open for that to work.
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You need to manually enable notifications under Gear Icon -> Settings -> Desktop Notifications. You need to click the special "enable" link and accept the browser notification permission request in addition to setting which notifications you receive. If you do that it should work even when you don't have a Gmail tab open.
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Can you delete or mark as read from those toasts?
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Is there anything wrong with Thunderbird or SeaMonkey, out of curiosity?
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D. Ebdrup posted:Is there anything wrong with Thunderbird or SeaMonkey, out of curiosity? Well, there will definitely be some bumps in the road if you use Thunderbird due to the pending removal of XUL. I still maintain a couple TB add-ons and it's moderately annoying keeping them working. Aside from that, TB actually seems to be doing fairly well and there are actual paid engineers working on it again. I'm honestly not even sure if Seamonkey is still maintained...
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Thunderbird is still alive?  I thought Mozilla pulled the plug on that and it was only on life support from unpaid volunteers.
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The relationship between Mozilla and Thunderbird is fairly tenuous (though Thunderbird still uses most of Mozilla's infrastructure), but Thunderbird gets enough from donations to have a few paid engineers working on things. One big thing that helped is that a couple years back, Mozilla and Thunderbird agreed to set up a donation system where you can donate to Thunderbird specifically, rather than Mozilla as a whole.
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I've been happily using Thunderbird for many years now. It's nice and stable, and it can't need THAT much maintenance. Email isn't really a moving target like the Web can be.
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Avenging Dentist posted:I'm honestly not even sure if Seamonkey is still maintained... I still see some activity: https://blog.seamonkey-project.org/ I've never used it though. Can't imagine there's much interest in the 2019 version of Netscape Navigator.
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rujasu posted:I still see some activity: EDIT: Found the issue being tracked by their BugZilla. It's not looking much better, either.. 
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rujasu posted:2019 version of Netscape Navigator. Holy poo poo you weren't kidding. This is really bizarre.
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Similar to how FreeBSD (and the other BSDs) is the OS of Theseus, SeaMonkey is the Browser of Theseus. SeaMonkey (and Firefox, of course) has a direct lineage going back through Netscape Navigator and NCSA Mosaic to libwww, which is the first dynamic library written by Tim Berners Lee to build browsers upon. Like the Ship of Theseus, not a single individual part that's in the code today can be traced back to the original versions of either FreeBSD or Firefox if you were to examine their sources as they are now (though with comments it's sometimes easier). The only way to prove this is to do what I and other nerds have done, ie. manually go source code spelunking through version control systems (if they're available; if not you have to do a lot more footwork to compare source code). BlankSystemDaemon fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Aug 24, 2019 |
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 so I played with seamonkey and then tangentedc 2019 Vandelay Industries LLCoff to other things and left it open. An hour later I open taskmgr for something unrelated, and find that it's chewing anywhere between about 14-23% cpu, averaging pretty much the median, 18%.FE: So my hilarious little copyright joke lead me to google Vandelay Industries LLC (the llc matters), and welp... (I'm sure I've googled it before but apparently not for a good long while)
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Hipster_Doofus posted:FE: So my hilarious little copyright joke lead me to google Vandelay Industries LLC (the llc matters), and welp... And? Don't leave us hanging.
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so the last read function on these forums has been kind of weird for me of late. basically, when i click the box with the number of posts i haven't read, the viewport lands on a post that i have read--usually a few posts above the earliest post i haven't read. this has been happening on every thread. any ideas? e: think it might have to do with tweets loading. seems like pages where there are no tweets place me correctly, but ones with tweets do not. any idea how to fix that? abelwingnut fucked around with this message at 13:13 on Sep 2, 2019 |
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abelwingnut posted:so the last read function on these forums has been kind of weird for me of late. basically, when i click the box with the number of posts i haven't read, the viewport lands on a post that i have read--usually a few posts above the earliest post i haven't read. this has been happening on every thread. Yeah, it's embedded tweets causing the issue. The only fix is to enable Tracking Protection for the forums, which will make the tweets just be links instead of embeds. Otherwise, after the page loads, just hit ALT+D to go to the address bar, and then hit ENTER, and it'll put you where you should be.
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Twitter. Constantly ruining everything 
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Speaking of which, ublock origin seemed to stop blocking "promoted tweets" lately anyone know a fix or is this my punishment for using twitter? edit: this addon seems to be working so far: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unpromote-twitter/ Pikestaff fucked around with this message at 20:15 on Sep 2, 2019 |
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Kheldarn posted:Yeah, it's embedded tweets causing the issue. The only fix is to enable Tracking Protection for the forums, which will make the tweets just be links instead of embeds. Otherwise, after the page loads, just hit ALT+D to go to the address bar, and then hit ENTER, and it'll put you where you should be. Team CTRL+L for life.
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I've said it before, but I'll say it again - the only fix for Twitter is Tweetdeck and hoping they'll keep not remembering that they own it.
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Just had a bug where users on mobile firefox were not able to upload multiple images while uploading a single image worked. Weird. Spent 30min debugging to find out, well, that just something that has been broken since April of last year (well technically April 2017). E: ugh pressed send. What happens is that mobile firefox can apparently only handle one file at a time. If it gets handed multiple files by the file explorer, it instead falls back to a single 0 byte file located at c:/fakefile/{TIMESTAMP}.jpg that breaks the javascript. Thanks mozilla. Sereri fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Sep 2, 2019 |
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Firefox 69 is out, which means that anyone who likes using userchrome.css needs toWattsvilleBlues posted:set the toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets preference to true to restore this ability. But also it now has a new Enhanced Autoplay Blocking which allows you to block autoplaying video even if it's mute which is very cool. I've definitely noticed a trend on some websites to have every drat story icon be a video (the ex-gawker sites are really bad with this). To change this go to Privacy & Security in the Options menu, scroll down to Permissions, and check the Autoplay settings. Set it to "block audio and video" if you want to halt all those dumb video thumbnails. Plus some other improvements including one that should improve battery and/or multiprocessing on Win10 by changing priority of content threads. And in other news, Mozilla has announced that they won't be following Google's change to extensions that will cripple ad-blocking. Hooray! 
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Klyith posted:Firefox 69 If you're already using userChrome (or userContent), it should flip the pref for you.
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Klyith posted:Firefox 69 Thank gently caress. I couldn't believe it didn't do this already.
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Klyith posted:Firefox 69 I still use Chrome on my desktop out of habit but the video thing will get me there full time, I think. Firefox surpassed Chrome with regard to being usable on phones ages ago, and I'm kinda looking forward to it being my daily driver again on desktop.
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Klyith posted:Firefox 69 This is about drat time and really good news. gently caress ads and autoplaying videos.
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Does the final release build also have the picture-in-picture stuff, or is that still just in the beta channel? I love that feature. Also, Firefox 70 in the beta channel has very noticeably faster page loads for me. Since web devs need to be saved from their own hubris, Mozilla ended up creating a second JavaScript interpreter that sits between their standard interpreter and their JIT engine. Web frameworks are so stupidly large now that JIT takes a while to complete, which also causes problems when it has to throw JIT code out for whatever reason. Instead of falling back to a slow initial interpreter, it can now fall back to this faster interpreter that has saved metadata and cache information. The article about it is here: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/08/the-baseline-interpreter-a-faster-js-interpreter-in-firefox-70/ I have actually noticed a substantial speed improvement in loading gmail.
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Geemer posted:Mobile doesn't even get 69, they released 68.1 for Android. Firefox Preview is actually quite nice on Android. Have you tried it?
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