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zipfelwurster , to technology in Firefox for Android now supports over 450 add-ons

Ah, interesting. Well, if you create a bug report, post the link here and I’ll vote it up for visibility :)

zipfelwurster , (edited ) to technology in Firefox for Android now supports over 450 add-ons

I believe it’s because firefox’s UI is placed on the bottom of the screen per default. To account for that, I believe they adjust the viewport’s height to either exclude the bottom of the screen (when the symbol bar is displayed) or include it (when you scroll down and the symbol bar is hidden).

Because they use a slide-out animation based on scrolling within the web page, the viewport changes a million times in height and causes elements fixed to the bottom of the viewport to jump and adjust a lot, causing weird behavior. And nobody tests for that.

All of thse are my assumptions by the way, please test for yourself, I might well be wrong.

If it really bothers you, try placing the symbol bar above and see if it works. It’s in the settings.

zipfelwurster , to technology in Just a JSON file in Windows 11 enables Edge, Bing, and Search ads removal

What exactly are you criticizing about linux? That it got (too) successful? That it is run in its current form by Linus Torvalds at the top as a sort of benevolent dictator? That it is taking money from sponsors?

Genuinely curious, this is a first time I’ve seen such criticism. More often I see linux people in endless flamewars about DEs, wayland vs X, package managers or whatever they feel strongly about and I’m not interested in those.

zipfelwurster , to technology in Windows Phone gets revenge on YouTube from the grave by helping users bypass its ad-blocker-blocker

Thanks for the reminder. I’ve been wanting to try it out.

zipfelwurster , to technology in Windows Phone gets revenge on YouTube from the grave by helping users bypass its ad-blocker-blocker

I’ve seen the same. I wonder if the older you get, the more you value your time.

I remember seeing lots of ad breaks on TV when I was a kid and it didn’t stop me from watching a show. Now if an ad break happens, I am reminded why I don’t own a TV and turn it off.

zipfelwurster , (edited ) to technology in Windows Phone gets revenge on YouTube from the grave by helping users bypass its ad-blocker-blocker

I am sure other platforms / personal hosting will continue to exist in the future. They simply won’t be relevant in terms of video streaming market share.

The network effect of youtube is massive. They have a huge amount of content creators and audience. That means the audience will stick around for the creators and the creators go for the biggest audience and hence the most views.

Being google, they have data centers all over the globe, provide a fast app / browser access for any OS, can cast to a TV with one click - all these equal convenience which cannot easily be beat by any individual website.

Some huge youtube brands like linus media group are trying with floatplane as their own paid video hosting service, but I’m sure their view numbers are insignificant compared to youtube even though they are the biggest players.

zipfelwurster , to technology in Windows Phone gets revenge on YouTube from the grave by helping users bypass its ad-blocker-blocker

I doubt it, unfortunately.

Like many other online services they’ve saturated the market so the only way to increase profits is to extract more money from individual users.

They are also a quasi-monopoly for a reason - hosting and streaming video is resource-intensive, so I wouldn’t hold my breath for a free alternative that would scale. AFAIK, piped and such are only frontends to youtube which will be killed off by ToS or through technical means.

Maybe there are free video sites that also host their videos, but as I said, since it quickly becomes very expensive, I don’t see anyone being able to do that for free for long.

Unfortunately, if anyone is going to “disrupt” youtube, it is going to come from a silicon valley startup and like youtube they will only burn investor capital for a limited time - until they have saturated the market (or failed). Then they’ll have to monetize as well.

My only hope is something like a torrent approach where everyone who streams also hosts. But since that is technically difficult to perfect, needs a huge user base to succeed while not promising any commercial gain for the initiating party, nobody will throw a ton of money at the problem, so I wouldn’t hold my breath.

My prediction is that people will either pay for premium or see ads in the mid- to long-term.

zipfelwurster , to news in Missouri high school teacher is put on leave after school officials discover her page on porn site

Thank you. 42k pre-tax for a teacher is abysmal.

zipfelwurster , to news in Missouri high school teacher is put on leave after school officials discover her page on porn site

Are these numbers before or after taxes?

zipfelwurster , to coffee in Need suggestions for grinder

This is a good suggestion.

I’d like to emphasize that a quiet grinder really is worth a little premium. I have a eureka mignon crono and that thing likes to scream with its lack of sound proofing.

When using a friend’s mignon silenzio I was surprised by how much nicer it felt to be able to make a quiet cup in the morning.

Long story short, I’m now looking into applying sound proofing to my grinder and I wish I’d just spent a little more to get a much better experience out of the box.

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