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datadrivenangel commented on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder   theregister.com/2026/02/0... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
datadrivenangel · 3 days ago
"The research by Lukic and Papadopoulos, independently funded and unaffiliated with Google or vendors of privacy tools, found not only that MV3 and MV2 ad blocking and anti-tracking extensions are equally effective, but that MV3 improved anti-tracking by blocking 1.8 more tracking scripts per website on average than the MV2 extensions."

Turns out it's hard to prevent users from customizing how they interact with your website unless you go pure image rendering.

datadrivenangel commented on Confer – End to end encrypted AI chat   confer.to/... · Posted by u/vednig
datadrivenangel · a month ago
Get a fun error message on debian 13 with firefox v140:

"This application requires passkey with PRF extension support for secure encryption key storage. Your browser or device doesn't support these advanced features.Please use Chrome 116+, Firefox 139+, or Edge 141+ on a device with platform authentication (Face ID, Touch ID, Windows Hello, etc.)."

datadrivenangel commented on The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe   noheger.at/blog/2026/01/1... · Posted by u/happosai
datadrivenangel · a month ago
The share buttons on iOS seem to fail like 15% of the time as well. Randomly.

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datadrivenangel commented on Vietnam bans unskippable ads   saigoneer.com/vietnam-new... · Posted by u/hoherd
datadrivenangel · a month ago
Requiring skip is good, but the part about focusing on illegal ads is better. If all ads were for soda, cars, and other legitimate products, that would be one thing, but so many ads are for straight up scams these days.
datadrivenangel commented on Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?   akr.am/blog/posts/why-is-... · Posted by u/thefilmore
datadrivenangel · a month ago
Google and others are putting 2FA notifications in their regular apps like gmail. I had to open my gmail app to get a 2FA code instead of my google authenticator app today... which is very weird and probably increases the needed security of the gmail app in addition to the size

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datadrivenangel commented on 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop   xeiaso.net/notes/2026/yea... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
xmcp123 · a month ago
Really only Photoshop is the big gaping hole I feel as a linux user. Gimp is just atrocious.

There is a desktop webview of PhotoPea, but it's not the same.

datadrivenangel · a month ago
gimp is actually pretty good, but things are in different places than photoshop and that's a huge change.
datadrivenangel commented on Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere   indieweb.org/POSSE#... · Posted by u/47thpresident
datadrivenangel · a month ago
Philosophically this is what we need more, but linkedin is absolutely tanking engagement for posts that have links.
datadrivenangel commented on America's economy looks set to accelerate   economist.com/finance-and... · Posted by u/andsoitis
paxys · a month ago
And what about inflation?
datadrivenangel · a month ago
This needs to happen in order for the US to deal with its debts.

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