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Just having the video player be the same across all sites is a win, I don’t even need the multi-threading or pre-cache entire video to love this.

They didn’t put “AI” in the subject line of the emails, so Microsoft doesn’t care…

Single-payer healthcare not tied to employment?

Turning this off is one of the first things I do after install. Never had an issue.

Go to Firefox Settings, search “location”, click the first button in results (Permissions > Location heading), check the box to block all new requests and save it, never worry about this again on any site.

This topic is about mobile devices, not desktop. Last I checked, Windows and Linux aren’t mobile OS’s.

Proton has paid tiers covering their actual costs, and they aren’t out to kneel at the altar of capitalism, driving shareholder value, etc. Google literally sells you as their product, so Gmail is free that way.

It sounds like they are working in a standard contact center, to me. It’s sad how much control/surveillance contact center managers wield over the agents. There are good companies out there, but for contact centers, they are unicorns, not the norm. The norm is “track every second, scrutinize any time waste”.

Is this the more edgy way to say “enshitification”?

Because they actually run their own infrastructure? They own their own IP space, so the only thing they’d be disclosing is the ISP’s they advertise that IP space through, which you could glean via traceroute anyways.

Don’t get me wrong, these Proton blog posts are all just thinly veiled ads for their own products, but knocking them for not being transparent about their tech is disingenuous, with their track record of the opposite. Are they open source? No. Are they forthcoming on the steps they take to protect your data (including from themselves)? You betcha.

Dropbox on the other hand has been breeches multiple times, and each time they slow walk customer notifications to try and mitigate damage to their brand, to the detriment of the customers.

Yup, and you can sue Sig Sauer if someone shoots you with one of their guns. You’ll lose due to having no basis for their culpability, but you can try.

Wow, TIL.

SG1 was shot in 4:3 until like season 8 or so.

I still don’t understand why they can’t make this into a single app.

Is this a Swiss sorcery thing? Capitalism doesn’t allow price reductions that easily…

It’s like $20 year, not everything good can be free.

NextDNS.

Also, be wary of relying on anything blocking ads on streaming services this way. They will likely serve them within the video stream, so not network-blockable.

It peaked, but stayed there, going on 15+ years…

Apple is the least terrible of my list.

ATV is the only box I recommend. I’m anti-Google, don’t trust Amazon (and now their service is going to do ads on a paid Prime membership), and Roku has major privacy issues at least in the past. Curious why you’re seeking an alternative to Apple.