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Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
Brazilian politicians are currently suggesting to create a new federal agency to regulate mobile apps because they "are unfair competition" to the services provided by the government-enforced oligopoly of four mobile carriers that basically share the market equally (http://img.estadao.com.br/link/files/2012/01/operadoras-tele...), and because Whatsapp doesn't (can't) hand out encrypted conversation histories to the police (http://adrenaline.uol.com.br/2016/11/09/46694/mp-defende-cri...).
Comment · 10 years ago
Thankfully: "Google Apps Free Edition (legacy) remains the same"
Comment · 10 years ago
This "announcement" is full of buzzwords and useless marketing mumbo jumbo, but doesn't say if free accounts created years ago will remain free. Can anybody please confirm?
Comment · 10 years ago
If you use Firefox, next time press SHIFT + F2, then type in "screenshot --fullpage" and press enter.
Comment · 10 years ago
Instapaper is better for this:
https://www.instapaper.com/text?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ndtv.com%...
Comment · 10 years ago
OP's fear and my reply were about changes done by Google, not edits done by channel owners.
Comment · 10 years ago
It's obvious that Google is able to change their own videos - and that it does it only to them and maybe premium partners (like Vevo, to upload higher quality versions of music videos). Nothing has changed to anybody until you show any proof that contradicts me.
Comment · 10 years ago
Cute μs, but it was dropped out of the name a very long time ago. The official name is uBlock Origin with a u now.
Comment · 10 years ago
It's worth noting that it all started on APRIL FOOL'S DAY (2015). That was the convenient day the author of the project decided to say in the comments for a random Github commit "hey, anybody wants to take this over? I'm out", without any previous discussion or announcement. Users assumed it was a joke but it was for real. Literally the first person to reply took over the entire project, and when the developer who was the real responsible for the Firefox and Safari port saw it, he stopped contributing instantly.
However, it's not that "the original author wasn't able to get it back". He is too proud of himself to admit the big mistake it was to give up the project to a random greedy teenager (who after the drama offered to give it back), so he decided to stay with the Origin name.
The result of this is that said teenager still makes a profit off the brand name (see ublock.org). People see that page and happily give him money thinking that they are helping the world.
By the way, it's also worth noting that the greedy teenager inflated his Github commits with minor changes and by hijacking the authorship of some commits, so that people would think that he did more than he actually have done (he can't really do much), and donate more to him. Eventually he just stopped making commits at all (https://github.com/chrisaljoudi/uBlock/graphs/contributors), since people will still donate just for thinking that his domain is legit.
The moral of the story is that uBlock Origin is a good extension, but its developer, despite being talented, can't be trusted to be here tomorrow. He can just have a tantrum and delete the entire project or give it up to some other random teenager again.
Comment · 10 years ago
I do it with this extension: https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector/
Comment · 10 years ago
They must have meant "culturally obligatory". Americans (at least New Yorkers) have a tradition of giving generous tips to all workers they perceive as not making a living wage.
In other countries, tipping isn't as common and can be even be seen as rude (in Japan, for example).
Comment · 10 years ago
Add more friends to your circles have better fine-tuned suggestions.
Comment · 10 years ago
Indeed. I don't understand why they do that (it was already like that before the brand change). It just scares away many potential users (people who have already used Linux, like open source etc.).
It's not like their management is clueless either. The project is sponsored by an advanced technology company (https://www.ixsystems.com/).
Comment · 10 years ago
Your stereotypes are disgusting. My working class relatives in Brazil are playing it. We don't live in huts.
* https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2016/08/02/multi-process-fir...
* https://developer.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Working_with_multiproc...