I really hope this type of payment system become a standard and adopted by other browsers. It's really close to what Ted Nelson tried to do.
Readit Newsethana commented on Brave Browser is taking the web by storm hackernoon.com/brave-brow... · Posted by u/o_wilson
Who needs RSS when there is pocket. /s
It's sad that Mozilla's excuse when responding to the Pocket integration was that Pocket wouldn't affect Firefox if you you use it. Now why don't they say the same for RSS? The "new tab" page is a glorified Pocket ads right now.
ethana commented on 27TB of Digg Reader content available on request twitter.com/myoung/status... · Posted by u/dsr12
Internet Archive is getting it. Yay!
ethana commented on Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices businessinsider.com/amazo... · Posted by u/doener
The problem here isn't so much that Amazon is going to hurt Google. Google will survive. But we only hear about this story because Google is who Amazon is attacking (today).
The bigger problem is that Amazon has set themselves up as the global arbiter of commerce, acting as a relatively neutral marketplace matching buyers to sellers worldwide, replacing many or most of the smaller commerce hubs and marketplaces that used to exist.
But once in that position, they exercise control over which products can be sold with the explicit intention of destroying competitors, replacing what would otherwise be a consumer favorite with their own inferior (according to market preference) alternate.
Everyone talks about monopolists and moral hazard and market manipulation, but Amazon seems to be the only modern company with the unique combination of dominance, confidence, and poor executive judgment to actually make it a consistent and overt company policy.
Google is no angel themselves. What they did to Windows Phone is no different than Amazon's behavior. I'd imagine Windows Phone might as well died even if there were Google apps on it. But by actively preventing third-parties from porting their services to WP, Google intentionally tried to kill it. Now they now practically own the global market of smartphones. Not saying any of this is right, but I've less empathy for them.
ethana commented on Firefox Quantum Isn’t Just “Copying” Chrome: It’s Much More Powerful howtogeek.com/334111/fire... · Posted by u/doener
I hope Firefox goal isn't archiving speed at the cost of cpu usage. I've been experiencing high cpu usage from Firefox ever since they turned on their multiprocess. Thus I'm still on Chrome as it is the best compromise for my mobile setup.
Also, Firefox start page is basically a glorified ads sponsored articles from their Pocket recommendation. Are people letting Mozilla getting away with this because it's owned by Mozilla? I honestly hate this practice. I don't want more ads.
I've been using a replacement of network>Proxomitron proxy filter tool called Proxydomo available on github. God bless the guy that reverse engineered the original.