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Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour
I've been wanting to leave the Google ecosystem for years but Maps was always the thing that kept me there. Thanks Google for freeing me at last!
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Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour
I've been wanting to leave the Google ecosystem for years but Maps was always the thing that kept me there. Thanks Google for freeing me at last!
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Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage
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So since they only just seem to have discovered this, does that mean this invisible extension also likely to be present on Chromium based browsers such as Brave and Thorium etc...?
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People who care about decentralisation, privacy and data sovereignty etc are usually smart enough to understand that endless feeds of short form video is the new asbestos. You'd have better luck selling big macs to vegans.
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Apple rolls out OS-level age verification in latest iOS 26.4 dev beta
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Yep
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Say Goodbye to the Internet as We Know It
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I thought I was the only one pondering on this. It's been a wild ride and I'm so glad I got to take part in the 90s, when web 1.0 was wild and free. What a blast that was.
But it's over now, we've ruined it, like we ruin everything, and I hope soon we'll all be collectively ready as a species to dance on the grave of our dead internet.
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When reddit bans your account 5 minutes after creation for no reason:
This has happened to me on several apps when I signed up while using a (paid) VPN
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Say Goodbye to the Internet as We Know It
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Hard agree. My point was that the "safety" premise would be unworkable politically if so many people didn't just let young kids loose with unrestricted smartphones in the first place.
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Chromium Manifest V3 Explained for Toddlers
The only thing keeping me from making the jump to Firefox is the fact you still can't create shortcuts to web pages that open in their own window like apps the way you can in chromium browsers. I find that feature incredibly useful so I'm sticking with thorium/librewolf etc for now. But once the enshittification is complete I guess I'll have to learn to live without it because I definitely aren't giving up ad blockers for it.
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Boost for reddit has now truly 100% died. Hello Lemmy!
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I kinda like the fact that it's only tech savvy people on here tbh. Kinda like it used to be back in the day, before everyone in the world and their cousin figured out how to get online.
Normaloids ruined the internet. It's nice to have a niche little corner of the web that they don't know about yet so they can't come and spoil it (yet) with all their endless pointless bickering and recycled political garbage reposting. Long live the 90s web 2.0 revival 😛
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As governments around the world are set to make the Internet more restrictive and privacy-invading, we need a solution
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The irony of Lemmy not letting me post this until I turned off my VPN 😖
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X is about to start hiding all likes
Am I the only one that thought this was a picture of Kim Jong Un?
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Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else”
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SlutGPT
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Microsoft's Secret Plan to Dominate Tech and You again!
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I've watched it and I don't even know if it is clickbaity to be honest. It seems pretty on the money to me.
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Fuck it, I couldn't take anymore. Hello Lemmy!
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I just don't get why people want to use social media for relentlessly spreading and talking about news or politics. I go online to escape reality / normies and their endless petty rage and negativity and self loathing. Is nowhere sacred?!
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Microsoft's Secret Plan to Dominate Tech and You again!
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Could you give a bit more detail as to why this is? Genuine question from someone who has only recently discovered his channel and enjoying the content so far.
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YouTube's next move might make it virtually impossible to block ads
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I've actually always wanted to do this! Download a load of old school Nickelodeon stabs and episodes and find some software that can play them all together in random order haha... Any advice on how to go about setting this up?
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Death of encryption - the real agenda behind Copilot & Recall?
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Physical access like an NPU chip fixed onto your motherboard?
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Google’s Pixel 9 will reportedly come in three sizes this fall
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I thought mine had but turned out a sharpened toothpick jammed around in there removed about a kilo of dust and problem solved 😉
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Switched to Linux and I think I'm going back to Windows.
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Great answer.
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Chromium Manifest V3 Explained for Toddlers
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Tried it with librewolf on Linux but couldn't get it to work