I would recommend disabling / randomizing other stuff found at:

* tool*.telemetry.*
*.normandy.*
*.normandy.*

and if you are not interested in seeing DRM content or notices about it:

*widevinecdm.*

So I suppose you never click on hyperlinks when using the internet? Isn't that a bit extreme?

How do you discover the content you are looking for, is there some kind of paid service you use which vets links for you? Or is your browsing very limited in scope?

I can't imagine using the net like that.

Personally, I'm trying out Miniflux. My reasoning is that if Mozilla pisses me off even more and I want to jump to a different browser, I won't have to worry about finding a new RSS reader extension or other solution.

OK, thanks for the info that they are behind on the roadmap. What about EV?

> I make security scanning tools for a living. My team checks at least a dozen things for each certificate. CT isn't something we check, because nobody cares.

Well, I would care. It seems stupid that you wouldn't check CT, considering that it exists, and even seems to be a good idea. I suppose there's some downside I am unaware of? What is it?

I hope Springer also bought the Whac-a-Mole brand, because the benefit to that brand from this court decision is probably going to be more significant than the benefit to Springer directly.

Will they never learn?

What kind of blockchains feature low-cost branching as a major selling point?

It seems to me that a blockchain is, well, a "chain", but a git repo is a "directed acyclic graph", which is much more general. Did I miss something?

I'm far from an expert, but proof-of-work certainly needs to be computationally expensive, on the other hand I think an economist would tell you that it never will become economically expensive compared to the perceived economic value gained by the computation. (The problem, nowadays, being in the "perceived" part...)

> Sort of exactly like git but also has a (inefficient) way to automatically resolve conflicting "check-ins".

Wow, this got "Insightful"? Considering that git's claim-to-fame is low-cost branching, and the whole point of blockchain is to prevent branching, I'd say that they're really not at all alike. The analogy is about as good as saying plants are sort of exactly like animals except the animals have a better way to move around.

Chrome does "use" Certificate Transparency, just not in the particular way you believe they should. (BTW, with a road map for the kind of implementation you want.)

Possibly Tidelift?

Whether Tidelift will "fly" (cringing at metaphor mixing), I have no idea....

I'm certainly no expert, but last time I checked, Ethereum was trying to get a viable proof-of-stake algorithm up and running.

> observing how regular users interact

Last time I checked, I don't think I qualified to be a "regular" user.

If this is done wrong, it's going to be a nightmare for me. And a lot of other users who are not "regular" because they are simply handicapped, as opposed to being outliers in the geeky/techno direction.

> (only reason anyone uses over 15GB a month is to stream shit

Yeah, sure. And if I like analyzing astronomic data, instead? Or running a D&D session using video conferencing? Or (insert tons of things I can't think of right now and even maybe haven't been invented yet)?

The first hit on my search for "15GB tax" doesn't seem to indicate that the proposed tax won't be levied on data downloaded from legal (i.e., paid-for) streaming services. Which makes no sense, since if you "stream shit" that you pay for, there is no logical reason to pay an additional tax on it.

About the only good reason I can think of is to encourage society to pursue healthier activities like participating in sports, etc.

> which in theory will go to the artists who are getting ripped off by the capitalists)

Ooooh. You sound totally convinced that those artists (as opposed to producers or gate keepers) are going to benefit. And your wishy-washiness is perfectly correct!

Is this a new kind of "in-line" dupe? Wasn't the old kind good enough????

In a pilot study with a small sample size, researchers looked for microplastics in stool samples of eight people from Finland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, the United Kingdom and Austria. To their surprise, every single sample tested positive for the presence of a variety of microplastics (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source). In a pilot study with a small sample size, researchers looked for microplastics in stool samples of eight people from Finland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, the United Kingdom and Austria. To their surprise, every single sample tested positive for the presence of a variety of microplastics.

From Wikipedia:

In August 2013, DVD-Ranger released a white paper detailing their methods for detecting, and subsequently removing, the present Cinavia signal from audio files.[16] The DVD-Ranger CinEx beta software synchronises and detects the Cinavia signal in the same way as a consumer Cinavia detection routine; these identified parts of the audio stream are permanently removed, removing the Cinavia signal. Post-processing can be used to try to "fill-in" the audible gaps created.[16]

There are claims[17] that Cinavia can be removed using open source software like Audacity with an extracted audio file from a video source. The audio file is processed by decreasing pitch by 13%; the processed audio file is then merged back into the video source. This renders the Cinavia watermark unreadable.