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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It is on by default in Windows.. More likely people have routers with it disabled.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Pro doesn’t reduce ad amounts IME.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

It’s all client side. It even mentions infected clients.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I’d guess its a solution similar to DASH that dynamically streams different content.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What does a privacy conscious version even look like?

Some things simply aren’t legal anymore like buying crypto without identification.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

FWIW many modern text editors just let you modify multiple lines at once.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, when used properly it did out perform the competition.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Webextensions get their own webprocess as well as running in the website. I don’t have a link but if you read their source they just pass a lot of data to their process to determine things (last i looked some years ago).

There is a trade off of executing more things on the site vs transferring a lot of data. Either way it’s a heavy extension.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Dark reader is one of the heaviest extensions you use, lots of dom modifications. It also passes around far too much data between processes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

My only concern would be the systems that my code runs on top of won’t be willing to share. It is one thing to demand it from me, another to demand it from Siemens. Then you add in very low level code for individual devices such as VFDs

It is about code they pay to create...

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