Do you want bird flu? Because this is how you get bird flu.

(Though, to be fair, if you’re in the US you’ll almost certainly end up getting it anyway, so you might as well enjoy some eggs and cleaning lots of chicken guano while you’re at it.)

At one particular point it was, if I recall correctly, though Chrome also (mis)implements some standards its own way, so Google might also use that as a form of attack against anyone who implements them properly, much like Microsoft did in the bad old IE6 days…

It’s all a silly arms race, though, with Google coming up with new ways to enshittify the web for anyone not using Chrome or using ad blockers and Mozilla and ad blocker (and alternative YouTube frontend) developers trying to figure out what they broke this time and how to fix it, so what worked yesterday might not work today and work again tomorrow.

It’s all a profoundly stupid waste of everyone’s time and resources (all for a few more ad views) which will hopefully end up with Google losing their monopoly position on the web like the Internet Explorer bullshit did for Microsoft, but will keep being a major hassle for everyone until it does.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/youtube-responds-to-delayed-loading-in-rival-browser-complaints, for instance.

Or https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has-sabotaged-firefox-for-years/, for an older one.

As for how to fix it, Mozilla tend to do a pretty good job of eventually working around Google’s bullshit, so keeping the browser updated is a good first step.

Since Google tends to roll this stuff out regionally and doing A/B testing, though, the best way is to identify what specific handicap they’re hassling you with (which specific features don’t work or don’t work right, when they work properly on chrome), and look for an updated add on or userscript to fix that particular issue.

Or you can just look for a generic YouTube or Google Docs “enhancer” add on and hope it fixes the issue without making the whole user experience too different from what you’re used to.

Mainly that Google intentionally makes its sites (like YouTube or Google Docs) slower and less useable when they detect you’re using Firefox, and/or ad blockers (which you need Firefox to use, so same difference).

It’s mostly fixable with add-ons and userscripts (and eventually, one hopes, with an antitrust lawsuit), but it’s still a hassle.

So, what you’re saying is I can move to Ohio, open a sperm bank that charges $100 per deposit, and make a mint?

The NT kernel is built on top of a hardware abstraction layer, which should make it easier to port it to different architectures.

Because they’re psychosomatic and many representations of Christ on the cross show the nails through the palms.

That wouldn’t work, though, they’d soon rip right through flesh between the metacarpals, and the victim would start flailing blood everywhere (supposing they were properly tied to the cross) or drop to the ground. They’ll last much longer through the wrists, lots of small well packed together bones, there.

Because Google intentionally breaks their sites when loaded on Firefox, so Mozilla have to keep reverse engineering their bullshit and implementing countermeasures, in an arms race somewhat reminiscent of duck genitals.

it’s

Fascism.

Sid Meier, obviously.

Not really, it’s just free publicity.

Unless their product is shit, of course, and no one would pay for it after trying or recommend it to others… in which case, fuck them, they deserve it for attempting to sell shit.

I remember when eDonkey and later eMule were brand spanking new… It took quite a while for BitTorrent to gain enough traction (and for me to get fast enough internet) for it to be better… (and, frankly, I still miss eMule’s Kademlia network’s peer to peer search capabilities…)

I know that no one is PRO genocide.

… I don’t know, I think the people committing genocide might be a bit pro genocide… 🤔

its @lemmy.world

So, same thing, basically.

They don’t believe women and children (and immigrants, and people with the wrong skin colour, and insufficiently wealthy people, and people who have different opinions than theirs, and people who work for them, and anyone but themselves, really) have the right or even ability to consent (or rather not consent) to anything (or any other right, really; just lots and lots of duties), simple as that, and will see any lack of consent (or anything else they perceive as an undeserved privilege, like claiming human rights) as a form of disrespect and even theft (in their worldview there’s only so much rights, happiness, wellbeing and whatnot to go around, so if anyone else has any they’re clearly stealing them from those who actually deserve them).

Ah, so that’s where Old Man Henderson’s wee men ended up…

YouTube would have to shut down

You say that like it’d be a bad thing… YouTube died (or rather was murdered by Google) a long time ago; what Google turned its bloated corpse into needs to be destroyed so that proper alternatives have space to grow.

Or use NewPipe if you don’t need to sync with your Google account.

Futurama calls the current era the Stupid Ages.

As for the period between the fall of the western Roman empire and the renaissance, it’s often referred to as the Middle Ages.