aljones's comments

On: More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done...

[aljones]

Why the hyperbole?

On: Chrome is faster in M91

[aljones]

Chrome is heavily promoted on some of the most high traffic websites. Users of those websites are told they should use Chrome. So they do. There's nothing Mozilla can do about that. Mozilla doesn't enforce antitrust. No upheaval within Mozilla will change it.

On: Large-Scale Abuse of Contact Discovery in Mobile M...

[aljones]

Is there a "scientifically-looking" paper that shows that users love it?

On: The Mueller Report, Searchable and Accessible on t...

[aljones]

What does the date of the interview have to do with whether or not he was central?

On: A majority of consumers do not expect Google to tr...

[aljones]

How big of an effect do you think this had? Most people didn't answer yes.

On: Apple Plus – brand versus subscription

[aljones]

YouTube app is nice but so is the web site.

On: Bezos Investigation Says the Saudis Obtained His P...

[aljones]

You are skeptical that Bezos would delegate publicly describing the results of the investigation to the person he publicly hired to investigate?

On: New study: Google manipulates users into constant ...

[aljones]

It is not a very conspicuous signal. I don't know which one of my friends use Amazon Smile. I don't think the dark pattern would work well if Amazon Smile was only social signalling. Seems to me it relies much more upon the fact that actual money is given to charities. Pretty gross of Amazon to add unrelated self serving conditions to such giving.

[ErikVandeWater → aljones]

I think the question is whether we would prefer Amazon Smile to exist as it is or not exist at all.

Even if there is a forced advertising aspect, it makes the world better.

[jstarfish → ErikVandeWater]

That line of thinking is what let Jimmy Savile run amok for decades.

On: Firefox 65.0 released

[aljones]

I can't say that I like the wikipedia reminders, but I don't dislike them. They remind me to pay for a service I use daily. So I do and they don't remind for a while. It is fine.

On: A command-line installer for Windows

[aljones]

You can change where it installs by setting an env var.

[tracker1 → aljones]

sweet... may check it out to see if I can get what I need for my baseline scripts that currently use Chocolatey.