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Re:Distrust of Symantec TLS Certificates
on Thursday September 06, 2018 @07:56AM (#17925581)
They are getting close to a monopoly in the browser market and a monopoly in the search market, so yes, this is exactly what's happening. You can pretend it's not a big deal because now they are using their power for good (I guess), but you don't know what they may do next.
Re:Distrust of Symantec TLS Certificates
on Thursday September 06, 2018 @03:12AM (#17924432)
I understand the rationale behind all of this, but I would get pissed off if Google sent me an email that basically says "do what we tell you to do or we will take your website offline"
Re:EU to move ahead with cultural quotas for streaming services
on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @02:29PM (#17920686)
>what you are losing is the long tail of smaller independent films that may be more thought provoking or diverse.
>they will keep the Transformers and Marvel movies and cut the smaller ones.
Most of the bigger franchises have already become "thought provoking" and "diverse" propaganda
Re:Firefox 62.0 Released
on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @12:18PM (#17919348)
First, they could be sticking to neutral news. Those exist.
Second, I don't believe the source code of the algorithm that picks which news to show you is available... If there's an algorithm at all, because chances are it's curated by humans.
Re:Firefox 62.0 Released
on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @12:02PM (#17919157)
I have disabled all the Pocket stuff on my Firefox so I didn't see this, but it does not surprise me (even though it disappoints me) that the Mozilla Corporation is using the Firefox home page to push left-wing news.
Re:Terry Davis has died
on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @05:15PM (#17912884)
Re:Wikimedia warns EU copyright reform threatens the ‘vibrant free web’
on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @01:54PM (#17911212)
That is crazy. Even systems like ContentID are full of flaws.
Re:On Firefox moving DNS to a third party
on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @01:52PM (#17911183)
>This seems well-intentioned but incredibly dangerous.
Like many of the things the Mozilla Corporation has been doing these last years.
Re:Wikimedia warns EU copyright reform threatens the ‘vibrant free web’
on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @01:47PM (#17911125)
I think they already have such systems via bots, but they don't block or undo things automatically because I assume it's hard to know programmatically the licence of things that are posted on the Internet.
Re:MikroTik routers are forwarding owners’ traffic to unknown attackers
on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @08:08AM (#17908431)
Get a better antivirus then, because it's picking the URL that appears in the post.