Vincent

Hehe, I can be more explicit: why would Chromium “resist” MV3 when the Chromium developers are the ones pushing it?

The spirit of Christmas future.

That’s like asking if I can resist reading a book. Sure I could, but I want to read a book - why would I resist?

They actually did:

The Voyager team sent commands over the weekend for the spacecraft to restart the flight data system, but no usable data has come back yet, according to NASA.

Unfortunately, that didn’t help. So now they’ll have to find out what’s causing this, and then see if they can fix it.

Haha exactly, by that calculation $1 a year would cover you and two others. Get that family onboard :)

Signal had 40 million active users in 2021. With 14 million in infra cost, that comes to .35 per user/year. Total expenses are about 33 million, so about .825 per user/year. All in all that seems very reasonable.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38291950

So it should be pretty easy to cover your own costs and maybe that of a couple of friends to make the transaction fees worth it :)

They were kinda forced to, having to choose between two evils: https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-blog-removing-sms-support-from-signal-android-very-soon/47954/57

Specifically, everyone who’s not using Chrome and its derivates did it. Use Firefox, people.

I mean, yes, it could’ve been differently, and as I understand it they’re going to. But as a user, how is your life worse with this than without this? What’s the impact of something being installed but not running?

Well, there’s a way to frame this as malicious. I’m not a fan of Brave, but it also installs, say, a spell checker without consent, or a Tor client. Sure, the code is there even if you don’t use it, but… What’s the actual harm?

Ah, so blog authors will still need to enable it manually. That’s a shame.

What does “blocked on the search engine” mean?

That doesn’t seem to mention Microsoft Clarity, other than it being on the list of domains that its ad blocker (not its search engine) blocks?