Yes but that’s not relevant to my comment nor the one I was replying to?

I tried it out for a while and yes, it really is as bad as the article implies. I gave it a fair chance for a few weeks and then went back to the old assistant (a task which which gemini was also completely unable to help me with, at one point even gaslighting me and saying I wasn’t using Gemini).

It’s kind of crazy to think about but it seems like Google is just somehow really terrible at AI

Is that really how it works? I feel like the whole ad based economy is a sham anyway, I wouldn’t mind if it collapsed and we funded websites through micropayments or gift economy

Firstly it hasn’t actually happened yet, I guess you fell for the misleading windowscentral headline. Secondly it’s not really kneecapped, but required them to rewrite, which the uBO author decided not to do (as a statement I guess). Other ad blockers however have made new MV3 compatible versions that are comparable to the MV2 ones, so it’s clearly possible. Also don’t forget there are other chromium browsers besides chrome, if you use Brave you don’t even need to install an ad blocker because it’s built in.

Are you… raw dogging the internet without an ad blocker? You poor soul

Personal preference I guess. I’ve tried Firefox many times over the years and always ended up going back to other browsers. I find Firefox doesn’t render some pages quite right, the user agent stylesheet is odd, and the UI is less streamlined. Performance also used to be a problem although I hear it’s caught up now.

I used to be a Chrome user but now I prefer chromium based alternatives like brave and edge (which incidentally, uBO will keep working on). Chrome is still required for work, but uBO change won’t be an issue I think, there are plenty of other ad blockers that will work with MV3

Sensationalist and inaccurate title

If you read the whole thing, it’s not wrong. It just highlighted a part that is wrong when taken out of context

So is human speech

Your constitution was already pretty terrible and outdated, clinging to it has been one of America’s problems for a while now.

But yeah I totally agree with you

Actually windows market share is growing as well. It’s MacOS that’s dropping

Can I get a ChatGPT summary of this article please 😆

Regulatory capture

Would honestly be better than the current options

All first world governments have some degree of corruption from money in politics, but don’t kid yourselves: USA is much worse than most

So what, we’re not supposed to use any library that’s ever had a vulnerability? You better go uninstall literally everything on your computer then

JPEG-XL is better

Citation needed

A banking system running on Blockchain

Is an astronomically terrible idea. It:

• would use as much electricity as an entire country
• payments/transfers would be both much slower AND much more expensive than via a bank
• would have no protection against fraud. You got scammed? Your money’s gone. You paid for something online and it never arrived? Too bad
• would have no way to stop money laundering
• would have no way to help people who forgot their password, they’d just lose their life savings permanently
• would tie up a bunch of capital, preventing reinvestment and growth. There would be no way to get a bank loan to buy a house for example
• the list goes on

Appreciate you taking the time to reply in such detail! Some good insights thank you

Your main (or at least first) point was to throw childish insults around, so you got the same in return