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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 16:31:36 JST Aral Balkan

   War is Peace
   Freedom is Slavery
   Privacy Sandbox

   https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/

   #google #chrome #adtech #surveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #privacy #web #BigTech #SiliconValley

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 18:48:26 JST Aral Balkan

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     • dragestil

     @dragestil Oh, I do.

     https://ar.al/talks/#free-is-a-lie

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     dragestil (dragestil@hostux.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 18:48:27 JST dragestil

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     @aral remember this whenever google utters "open web"

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 22:54:19 JST Aral Balkan

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     • MoiraEve

     @MoiraEve You’re very welcome :)

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     MoiraEve (moiraeve@mastodon.world)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 22:54:20 JST MoiraEve

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     @aral Thx for this instructive article. I’ve shared w/ two close friends.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 16:16:37 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Strypey
     • dragestil

     @strypey @dragestil Didn’t end. Has been evolving :)

     (And is no longer limited to Apple’s platforms like the original prototype was.)

     https://ar.al/2023/02/20/end-to-end-encrypted-kitten-chat/

     #SmallWeb

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     Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 16:16:38 JST Strypey

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     • dragestil

     @aral
     Elsewhere on the linked page...

     "In this talk, I give the first public demonstration of Heartbeat, a native macOS social media app that never left alpha"

     I noticed that while researching for fediverse.party. Never did see any explanation of why. Have you written about your Heartbeat journey and why it ended?

     @dragestil

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 19:29:03 JST Aral Balkan

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     • dragestil

     @strypey It’s not ready for (production) use but it’s ready enough for developers to have a play with it.

     Getting closer, though :)

     (I’m in this for the long run.)

     @dragestil

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     Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 19:29:04 JST Strypey

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     • dragestil

     @aral
     > Didn’t end. Has been evolving :)

     Ah, awesome. Just still in alpha? Will check out the talk you linked.

     @dragestil

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 21:15:58 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Bart Nijbakker

     @strypey @bnijbakker Not without a large (not half a billion dollars a year large but millions of dollars a year large) amount of funding.

     Which the EU could easily cover.

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     Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 21:16:17 JST Strypey

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     • Bart Nijbakker

     @bnijbakker
     > I do use Librewolf as my main browser, but if Firefox were to end, I'm not sure they will be able to keep it going by themselves

     A bunch of projects release soft forks of FireFox, including LibreWolf and Abrowser. I wonder if they could carry on the shared platform between them, without Mozilla?

     @aral

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     Bart Nijbakker (bnijbakker@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 21:16:18 JST Bart Nijbakker

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     @strypey @aral
     Agreed! Although #Firefox may be the best we've got for now.

     Of course there are #Epiphany, #Konqueror and other FOSS browsers, but I think developing an up-to-date (let alone secure) web browser is a serious effort.

     Btw, I do use #Librewolf as my main browser, but if Firefox were to end, I'm not sure they will be able to keep it going by themselves.

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     Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 21:16:22 JST Strypey

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     • Bart Nijbakker

     @bnijbakker
     > Firefox. must. survive

     This is not enough. We need competing Free Code web browsers, *not* funded by DataFarmers.

     For a large chunk of its history Mozilla has been kept alive by Goggle. For the same reason BorgSoft kept Apple alive as a weakened competitor to Windows. To vaccinate themselves against antitrust enforcement to break up the monopoly they effectively have in the browser and desktop OS respectively.

     @aral

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     Bart Nijbakker (bnijbakker@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2023 21:16:23 JST Bart Nijbakker

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     @aral
     Well, the message stays the same.

     Ditch Chrome, like, yesterday.
     Firefox. must. survive.