Wispy2891
@Wispy2891@lemmy.world
- Comment on Please tell me this is shopped. 3 days ago:
It matches, because clowns have oversized shoes
- Comment on My "privacy" browser now adds an extra unique tracking URL to every link that I share, to advertise itself and track the opening rate 3 days ago:
Yes, Firefox detected that I shared to Whatsapp, then added the second link at the end of my message. I was pissed
- Comment on My "privacy" browser now adds an extra unique tracking URL to every link that I share, to advertise itself and track the opening rate 4 days ago:
What do you mean? This is supposed to be sent to my friends. To a friend, a real message would be like “I’m using Firefox, get it at firefox.com” and not “I’m using Firefox, get it at domain.tld/garbage”.
This time the “short” link isn’t unique, but they still did this for tracking purposes and not for “convenience”. I didn’t check it but it will definitely resolve to something like firefox.com for maximum tracking analysis
- Comment on My "privacy" browser now adds an extra unique tracking URL to every link that I share, to advertise itself and track the opening rate 5 days ago:
if i see domain.tld/garbage i have to assume they did it for tracking, not the opposite
- Comment on My "privacy" browser now adds an extra unique tracking URL to every link that I share, to advertise itself and track the opening rate 5 days ago:
there’s no reason to use a “short” link when it’s longer than the real “long” link
- Comment on My "privacy" browser now adds an extra unique tracking URL to every link that I share, to advertise itself and track the opening rate 6 days ago:
Yes because the option to remove the advertisement link is inside Firefox. It might be that meta and Mozilla got some monetary agreement and this is even worse
- Comment on My "privacy" browser now adds an extra unique tracking URL to every link that I share, to advertise itself and track the opening rate 6 days ago:
They promote themselves as a privacy browser, so they should have placed a splash screen “help us spread”, with the toggle to add the ads in my chats. Having that link on by default is not pretty, especially in WhatsApp conversations where you share ten links
- Comment on My "privacy" browser now adds an extra unique tracking URL to every link that I share, to advertise itself and track the opening rate 6 days ago:
If the link it’s the same for everyone then they should have definitely used firefox.com or a dedicated domain, not domain.tld/garbage
- Comment on My "privacy" browser now adds an extra unique tracking URL to every link that I share, to advertise itself and track the opening rate 6 days ago:
They detect sharing on WhatsApp and inject the tracking link only on that case. It didn’t do this yesterday so there’s a chance it’s on a/b testing
- Comment on My "privacy" browser now adds an extra unique tracking URL to every link that I share, to advertise itself and track the opening rate 6 days ago:
No, only when using the share button
- Comment on My "privacy" browser now adds an extra unique tracking URL to every link that I share, to advertise itself and track the opening rate 6 days ago:
It’s Firefox, and there’s a new “sharing” option in the menu that contains a toggle to disable this
- My "privacy" browser now adds an extra unique tracking URL to every link that I share, to advertise itself and track the opening ratelemmy.world ↗Submitted 6 days ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 48 comments
- Comment on challenge 1 week ago:
Plot twist, you’re teleported in a room that will be set on fire if a switch isn’t pressed within 2 hours and broken door hinge blocks you from pressing it
- Comment on 🔥Leaked copy of the Epstein Files🔥 1 week ago:
In a kakistocracy like this where everyone is literally the most incompetent person that could cover a specific position, I hope the redactions are made with the black highlighter tool of Microsoft Word (can still be copied/pasted when selected lol)
- Comment on Don't like the 'left liberal bias' of cited and sourced Wikipedia articles? Not a problem, our lord and savior Elon is introducing Grokipedia. 1 week ago:
They forgot the quotes on “fact checked”
- Comment on These are the types of Whatsapp Channels Indians get recommended 1 week ago:
Otherwise they wouldn’t have pirated thousands of porn movies
- Comment on Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles 3 weeks ago:
8k views means 7k ai scrapers downloading the same resource over and over
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 4 weeks ago:
I use cachy on my laptop but I wouldn’t call friendly an arch based distro that during setup asks the user “which of those 19 desktop environment do you want? Choose wisely only one”
It doesn’t even have a gui to install new software (at least, I am not an expert, I chose hyprland and it didn’t install that, and when I manually installed KDE Discover and the GNOME software manager, they only show and install flatpak apps - but because I’m not an expert I might have messed something up)
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 4 weeks ago:
There’s a chance it will happen outside the USA.
Deciding to send to the landfill every PC sold after 2018 is a decision that they saw analyzing only numbers from big American corporations. “Anyway they lease the computers and have a refresh every 3-5 years”
But the rest of the world?
Here in Italy I still see people on Windows 7
When I traveled in southeast Asia I saw people using windows XP
Or Brazil, where the import taxes make a windows 11 compatible PC ultra expensive
Regular people and small businesses , especially outside the USA won’t simply buy a new PC just because Microsoft and Intel needed the line to go up.
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 4 weeks ago:
Not every night but twice a week I got social pressure to go to the bar to drink. I hated it because those were eight perfect hours that could be used for playing with my PC 🤓
Nowadays I couldn’t afford it anymore even if before I was a broke student and now I have a job
- Comment on do it cowards 5 weeks ago:
Because now you need an app to know if you have diarrhea
- Comment on I love stardew valley. looking for an alternative that is made for controller experience. 5 weeks ago:
That seems nice, it’s even on gog
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Those fingers are definitely human fingers
- Comment on Sora AI Slop is here 1 month ago:
And of course the description of that insta post is the usual bot scam
Get your Amaz0n g!ft card from my bí0
- Comment on Updates that don't tell me what is being updated 1 month ago:
Ahow many updates receives an app, is now considered a “good” metric somehow now. So now if dependabot pushes a PR, it’s a new release on the app stores (of course without testing)
The algorithms on the app stores now consider the app “active” and push the app “up” in ranking
There was a certain billionaire bragging about his app getting 3 vibe-coded updates a day while the competition “only” got 3 a week
So, they can’t write a real change log. What can they write? “Dependabot updated leftpad from 1.1.3.2 to 1.1.3.3” “untested: updated Gradle from 8.14.2 to 8.14.3” “200mb update to change a comma in the Hungarian translation”
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 1 month ago:
And the huge drawback that if the kid finds some “easy trick to win matches” on YouTube and gets vac banned, the parent also gets vac banned
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 1 month ago:
For PC games that’s impossible, at most you can find a disc-shaped steam redeem code
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 2 months ago:
I’ll be the asshole: why the fake money wasn’t immediately converted to real money giving directly the exchange address instead of a locally hosted wallet? Except bitcoin all the shitcoins are devaluating in real time
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 2 months ago:
It’s trivial to detect running in a vm and behave differently
It’s more like “why the industry standard to allow games installers to run as admin is widely accepted?”
Or “why a crypto wallet needs to have unencrypted files in the user home, ready for exfiltration?”
- Comment on No thanks 2 months ago:
I wish they wrote down the date somewhere and don’t ask me again (probably they don’t want so don’t need to bother with storing sensitive privacy data)
But I registered in 2008, at this point they can assume I’m at least 18, no?
