2024-03-28
What makes you think that because this is Poland that Amazon isn't doing the same thing here?: Amazon fined in Poland for dark pattern design tricks | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/...
TechCrunch
Poland's consumer watchdog fines Amazon ~$8M for allegedly misleading consumers, including via dark pattern design tricks, ending a probe from February 2023
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2022-06-13
“Google presents the changes as a benefit to privacy, security, and performance, but critics see it as a calculated effort to limit the impact of ad blocking on a company that is funded by ads”:Firefox and Chrome are squaring off over ad-blocker extensions https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
The Verge
A look at the growing disparities between ad blocker browser extensions, as Google's Manifest V3 bans blocking via Web Request while Mozilla keeps supporting it
There's a growing split over how much room browsers should leave for ad blocking — and Chrome and Firefox have ended up on opposite sides of the fight.
2021-01-20
20 years ago I was using an open source CMS I really liked, Post Nuke, which eventually pretty much committed suicide with a bad code rewrite: 20 years of Drupal - Founder Dries Buytaert on API first, the end of breaking compatibility, and JavaScript bloat https://www.theregister.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
The Register
Interview with Drupal founder Dries Buytaert as it marks 20 years, on importance of user experience, open source, API first approach, JavaScript bloat, and more
Tim Anderson / The Register : Tweets: @brideoflinux Tweets: Christine Hall / @brideoflinux : 20 years ago I was using an open source CMS I really liked, Post Nuke, which eventuall...
2020-03-08
I think bare metal cloud is going to be an important part of the hybrid landscape: Equinix's $335M Packet Acquisition Is Closed. Here's What's Next @datacenter https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/ ...
Data Center Knowledge
Equinix, a leading provider of colocation services, says it has closed its acquisition of bare metal cloud provider Packet for $335M in a deal announced in Jan.
The colocation giant's platform-building endeavor enters a whole new phase. — Equinix has closed its acquisition of Packet …
2019-10-18
If you're using Realtek Wi-Fi, I'd suggest you stay away from public Wi-Fi until the patch comes through: Unpatched Linux bug may open devices to serious attacks over Wi-Fi @arstechnica @RiCHi https://arstechnica.com/...
Ars Technica
Researcher finds bug dating back to 2013 in a driver for Realtek Wi-Fi chips in Linux devices that could let hackers remotely crash or compromise devices
Buffer overflow can be triggered in Realtek Wi-Fi chips, no user interaction needed. — A potentially serious vulnerability in Linux …