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Do you think the average person can properly handle security issues and spam? Maybe a static site is fine.
I'm guessing that monetizing comments is a lot more difficult on reddit as any links can be removed by admins/mods/automoderator.
AMO does not require a manual review nor the extension to be uploaded publicly. You can sign it through their site and then distribute it elsewhere.
Also, I don't see how you can compare browser extensions to vscode extensions. One product is aimed at your grandma, the other at software developers and doesn't have access to your email, banking and credit cards.
A streamer has to compete with every other streamer for viewers/income. They're basically trying to sell their personality / themselves to the audience. As other comments mention, the vast majority of streamers cannot do that as they have literally no viewers.
The take that it's an easy job seems very weird to me. If it's so easy, why don't you quit your job and start streaming instead?
Works fine for me on Firefox 107.
Usage times, usage intensity, list of all extensions, country of origin. I don't understand why they'd need those to improve Firefox.
Next thing you know they might try to increase engagement time like they're some sort of social network. "Unlock the new exclusive colorway by logging in 30 days in a row." seems like something that could be implemented, seeing how they're time limited already.
Couldn't crash reports be separated from other telemetry data, possibly with a dialog letting the user whether to send a crash report or not? IIRC, the dialog used to actually exist in older Firefox versions. I find the amount of data they collect[1] to be borderline creepy.
[1] https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
Does the canvas need to be created and removed as it comes in and out of view? Using requestAnimationFrame() might also further improve responsiveness.
Ah, the classic. In order for your issue to be resolved you have to make the news. Really sad how this applies to many/most online services.
I believe Firefox and Chrome do not allow you to set a local html file as a new tab page. You can set it as a home page but then you need to manually navigate to it after creating a new tab.
I personally aim for a startpage that loads instantly and since browsers no longer let you use a local html file as one, I've made an extension that registers a custom new tab page.
I don't use any frameworks since it's a pretty simple page, essentially just groups of links. If you need to, you can always use something like fetch to load external resources.
> do you really think Google could get rid of third party cookies tomorrow and not get sued out existence?
Considering that ad blocking extensions still exist, yes. The browser (user agent) is supposed to act on the behalf of the user, not the remote server. It's not required to use cookies, display ads or run malicious code.
On what grounds would an ad company sue Google for a change in Chromium that enhances the user's privacy, while they can still display ads (just not track the users as much)?
I feel like substack has proved that high quality writing can be monetized really well by providing contracts in the range of $200k/year for some of its writers.
Hopefully they'll copy Chrome as usual and bring back RSS support.
> you can deliver a full featured, quality ad blocker with less than 5,000 core rule.
I guess that depends on how far you stray from the top [x] sites of alexa?
You can "hide" it with uBlock Origin by blocking large media elements in the popup.
It doesn't even have to be tasteful, just a generic feel-good story, some giveaway, or if you're already famous just post on /r/IamA.
> /r/Subreddit helped me achieve my life long dream of [...].
> You guys helped me in my though times and I am giving away [...] in return.
> My name is [Famous Celebrity] and you should buy my new [...]. Btw, I might answer some generic questions.
Alternatively, you can buy upvotes, comments and compromised years old accounts to promote your product.