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plus a lot of Facebook users concerned about their privacy installed some third party script blockers. They are probably now below Alexa's radar
Re:Retrospective: Looking Glass on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @05:21AM (#16272844)
TL;DR: next time when we inject adware, we will name it correctly and we will spy on you to meet SHIELD's criteria.
China did the same but for bigger scale in the past. The reason to do this is to store all traffic for future analysis. Now it is protected by https but there is no protocol or cryptography which couldn't be exploited in the future.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/11/how-c...

Re:Station X Linux Machines on Thursday November 23, 2017 @08:57AM (#15765049)
Next reseller of the same OEM laptop ordered somewhere in China.

Check the right side of this laptop: https://stationx.rocks/products/spitfire

and compare with Galago pro: https://system76.com/laptops/galago

sides: https://screenshots.firefox.com/0I2YsDmIvbKuYbr3/stationx.ro... and https://d1vhcvzji58n1j.cloudfront.net/assets/products/galp3/...

and I've seen this model at least on two other resellers.

Re:Date/Time Inputs Enabled on Firefox Nightly on Monday October 23, 2017 @03:48AM (#15531465)
> I hope it spreads to other browsers quickly.

It is in other browsers for years

Re:The web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @03:48PM (#15444801)
I suggest reporting a bug to Bugzilla. The positive side effect will be you will see how efficiently they handle such reports. And you will get it fixed.
Re:Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? on Friday March 31, 2017 @09:34AM (#14003560)
omg, I am on 14.04 LTS and didn't believe until now it is not fixed in newer releases! :)
This is a map of air pollution in Europe.

http://www.zzit.pl/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Powietrze.jpg

Poland is struggling right now because of huge smog. This makes me believe in this part of an article, which says that higher iodine detection might be caused by accumulation in smog.