Invidious public instances have been completely blocked by this, it’s no longer AB testing. IDK exactly what triggers it but, too many requests from the same ip is going to show this now… maybe OP vpn exits with an ip shared by too many…

Which bridge do you use? do you self-host it?

I get what you mean, I think in a realistic scenario this only work to circumvent some laws. if you are tortured by someone who know about this and don’t care about your life, then it’s meaningless.

Does not “help protecting privacy”, that is marketing. It’s a system for ads that track you in a more privacy-friendly way then other alternatives.

Peoples are mostly angry at the fact that they just silently slipped this system in without asking for consent.

I’ll add something which is not mentioned: Unreal Engine, one of the most popular game engines, is source available, but not open source. Many games modify it but its then impossible to release those sources. I’m guessing that it’s the same with many other engines…

I meant that without these people who constantly work on it, Invidious would instantly die, we shouldn’t take them for granted…Google is constantly making changes that breaks it.

Btw they are not actually failing: just a few weeks ago Invidious was completely broken, but a guy posted a PR to fix that like the day after…

I kinda agree with you, being impossible to contact is probably unachievable in today society…Isn’t it more important to avoid sharing more personal information, like your exact location history with Google? (or pls explain me the downvotes)

No there aren’t just disable it from tarallo_settings!

Still haven’t got around installing Lineage on my phone to get rid of Google there

I’m going through that right now, definetely worth it, but it can be quite a job on some devices, have a spare phone ready when you start :)

Recently Teams is blocking Firefox even on Windows, but changing user agent was enough in my case…

I feel you, but I think that however clear you make its usage, people will still use it to express their opinions and others will get hurt… Personally if a post gets downvoted (not reported) I feel like it’s a good thing, it means that there’s a discussion, and we’re here for that isn’t it? Making clients that make you feel less bad for downvotes would probably help, but I don’t want it to end up like YouTube…

Exactly, making everyone to switch over to something else is impossible…l’ll uninstall it as soon as they roll this out

Lemmy mainly aims to be a decentralized alternative to news aggregation forums, which is the important part for many people. It’s a FOSS project, I see any other feature as a plus…

In one of my jobs, they were automatically locking any push 2 hours before the shift ended.

I only tried this with windows which works fine: on restore Clonezilla has an option to rescale partitions on the fly to fit the destination drive. For drivers, windows detect changes and update them the first time is started on the physical machine.

I get it about the corporation issues but do you even dislike firefox? Do you think it would be positive to have one less alternative to chrome? What browser do you use?

Clonezilla. I usually prepare images in virtual machines and restore them on physical drives.

On desktop, I’m really wondering why people use it. I mean it’s not pre-installed for windows, what makes people choose Chrome in 2023?

I think the article is partially true but overly dramatic… “imaginary problems” are usually just overkill solutions to actual issues, and are a nice way to balance out the stress of working on bugs 24/7, which is not feasible anyway