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No, I confirm that this camera behavior also happens on iOS 16. But I agree that iOS and macOS 26 are the worst thing Apple made in a long time.

The same thing happened to me in Bucharest. The driver would give me a discount if I canceled my Uber reservation and paid in cash.

In other words: browsers should just implement uBlock Origin by default.

Firefox does already have some tracker blocking built in, though it would be fantastic to import arbitrary filter lists.

Chrome & Safari are operated by advertising/surveillance companies, so no dice there.


Safari (desktop and mobile) also has tracker blocking built in. "Prevent cross-site tracking" and "Hide IP address from trackers" are two settings it has; I think the first is checked by default, I don't remember about the other.

In the DevTools network pane, it shows requests to known trackers, like Google Tag Manager, being blocked.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102602


Try using Amazon in Safari sometime (in Lockdown Mode, no less): non-stop ads (some which flash), sponsored results dominating the first page of search, random Dufus pop-ups forcing AI. You can hide "distracting" elements but they just appear again later. Safari is not a user-friendly browser.

Safari is my default browser. I don't know what "Dufus" means, I don't recall any A.I. references. On Amazon, it's all first-party stuff, what browser blocks that natively? It seems like you're comparing using Safari without an ad blocker to a different browser with an ad blocker.

I know the most popular ad blocking extensions don't make a Safari version but there are ad blockers for Safari.


This is the equivalent of

"Lawmakers should legally set rents to $0, so we can all live for free"


Only if you assume ads are the only way anybody could run a website.

This is what brave does. It's implement without needing an extension, so Manifest V2/V3 etc doesn't matter one bit.

So, Brave.

An interesting thing of this article is that the SVG image of the type matchup [1] has embedded automatic translation.

The type labels will be displayed in the language your browser is set to. I didn't even know this was possible.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Pokemon_...


Oh that's really cool, I didn't know about this! I just linked to the wikimedia-hosted illustration, but that's a good perk too.

It's using the <switch> tag for this

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Reference/E...

However, like with many of these obscure features, I am not so sure it works well in practice. I have the Windows 11 laptop I'm viewing that SVG from set with support enabled for english, french and russian, and I'm getting, among most of the English tags, a few stray "Psychique" and "Привидение" types in the svg. I have no idea how it chooses which one to show, there.


Just a wild guess, but perhaps the order of the translations vary across cells. Perhaps the browser just picks the first one that matches your supported locales.

Wow thats very cool, i was puzzled at first as to why the pokemon types were in Finnish!

>someone at Google pays attention to it and keeps it from falling behind

I feel like it's the same for Google My Maps. They even discontinued the Android app, so you can only use it on the web. It totally feels like there's a single guy keeping the whole system up.


> The page almost seems like someone’s pet project that didn’t have any explicit funding

It probably is, given that it's just a static page hosted on blogger.com


It's because their blog is hosted on blogger.com (yeah, weird decision), which is owned by Google and does that by default.

I also have a blogger.com blog.

Why? Because I had it for 20+ years, and I still didn't find an easy way to automatically migrate it to WordPress.


You're also presumably not a $400m+ company, which makes it more intestesting.

I assure you no amount of capital trivializes the endeavour of migrating to/from Wordpress.

GP speaks wisdom.


In my experience, the blog usually falls in some weird space where the marketing team owns it somehow. It’s best to leave them be and let them handle it, because if you suggest an alternative and then something goes wrong or isn’t to their liking you’ll never hear the end of it.

My point was that it's not trivial to migrate away from blogger.

Clearly engineers at Netflix have more important work to do.

+1 for Blur, great game, it's like Super Mario Kart for grown-ups.

Too bad the only way to get it is by pirating it. But in these situations, doesn't piracy become morally acceptable?


It becomes a moral imperative to pirate it and continue seeding it for others to also acquire, as a mean to help preserving something you cared about, apparently more than the owners of the IP/rights themselves care.

> It becomes a moral imperative to pirate it and continue seeding it for others to also acquire, as a mean to help preserving something you cared about, apparently more than the owners of the IP/rights themselves care.

Your words brought me right back to my teenage years sitting at the family computer at 12am babysitting a couple of song downloads to burn onto a CD for my friends to listen to on the bus ride.

Kinda random and only tangentially related but the thought brought a smile to my face and I just felt like sharing and saying thanks!


Heh, I too remember the stress and rush of burning car-listening CDs right before long car trips, trying to set the write speed to slower and slower after each failed attempt, and finally succeeding burning it, only to find out that the car didn't actually have any CD reader at all, and could only do cassette. Waiting for DC++, Kazaa or LimeWire to finish a download only to find out that of course, it's some Britney song instead.

Simpler times for sure, unsure if it was actually better or not though, we certainly aren't as young as we used to be :)


Wow this looks pretty rad, I wish I knew about it before! Having real cars in the game really makes it more fun to me. I dunno why, but playing racing games with a bunch of fake cars isn't as exciting (Super Mario Kart being an exception). It's especially fun when you see one of your cars, or a friend's car in the game.

Yes, I think it's super funny to race with a Ford Transit in Blur!

It's one of the best arcade racing games ever made

I think you can install games that you bought (when they were available), even if they're delisted.

But Gemini doesn't bring much visitors to your website. Also, optimizing for AI is even more "black magic" than normal SEO.

Instead sites adds Gemini integrations, which are targeted based on prompts. When you pay enough, Gemini recommends your shop and AI buys the stuff for the target audience.

Google considers the consumer's side, not just the publishers. Users often don't want to visit someone's website (and then dodge ads and cookie/newsletter/notification popups). If the query can be answered without veer visiting a website, so much the better.

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