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Not "API", and Mozilla intends to vote against, I hope...

Thanks man, I didn't know this...

There are huge selections of manufactures, speeds, powers, capacities, and so on... Thus, it is hard to simply let you pick and choose... They pick some parts, limit external factors that could influence the benchmarks, and show you the metrics so you can make an somewhat more informed decision...

This is just another attack on the open & free internet. Why so? Since Google defines per their own metrics fast vs slow, they will imprint that impression upon the user, making an otherwise good willed user a starting bad impression on your site.

As people pointed out, this will make AMP even more attractive, driving more traffic away to Google...

Also, it may impact sites hosted on cheap far datacenters, like my user being in Brazil, and my server being in Virginia. Suddenly, my site is considered slow by Chrome, while my rich competitor who hosts in São Paulo gets the "fast" badge...

I think this kind of classification creates extra confusion and impact at no tangible benefit to everyone that isn't Google.

Yeah, I know it is, and said pretty much what you said...

Yea, what is this BS Linux kernel build process that is a known metric that everyone can test against? I compile projects dozens of times a day at my work and never once I compiled the linux kernel...

Here is why they track and collect:

“Hiding within those mounds of data is knowledge that could change the life of a patient, or change the world.” (Atul Butte, Stanford)

"Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine” (Peter Sondergaard, Senior Vice President, Gartner)

“Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the web like deer on a freeway.” (Geoffrey Moore, author and consultant)

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And the quotes go on and on...

Did you try the Firefox Account? I use Firefox on desktop, android and iOS, and sync my passwords with no problem.

You mean the ones google is fighting to keep, while trying to convince everyone that allowing more tracking would incentive bad actors to drop fingerprinting ?

For example, closing subtle interpreter patterns or behavior differences that may be used to fingerprinting...

Yea, because Google surely will implement and fast track new privacy measures on V8, instead of fill any initiative on this regard in a lot of red tape...

I love those elemental animal names of their projects...

Tweeted them about this, their response: "Request/vote for this feature on our community site", with the following link: https://skype.uservoice.com/forums/914527-welcome-to-skype-i...

Privacy is not a Industrial Age stuff... I could be private in Rome, just as I'm now, just a random dude working... A small cog, no one gets to know me, no on cares to gossip about me... Be it now, be it on Renascence in Venice, be it on Rome just before the senators kill Caesar, be it on Luoyang as the tensions rose between the Warring States...

At any point in time, I could have a private conversation, write and hide a document, like some stuff that was socially unacceptable and keep it a secret, meet someone in secret, and, in general, lead a private life... Stop comparing urban life as if it is something modern... Of course it is much more prevalent now, as the ratio vs rural residents shifted, and sure, it is much harder to hide something on a small village of some dozens of people, or at a farm with a huge family, but in any major city of any era, you could be as hidden and private as today, if not more...

I tried it on the weekend, and it indeed work...

Sure, my gov (Brazil) uses reCaptcha on the page where you can check your electoral status (For example: if you can vote, where, and if not, what is missing). Where can I find a competitor for that?

Kind of like the Good Old Days™? Jokes aside, Search engines are for stuff we don't know... I get my news from some sites, this one for example, and I don't depend o Google for that... But when I want to know about the viability of zipping a UTF-8 encoded text to save space on my DB, there is no way to get may answer without a search engine...

Happy to see some things I learned the hard way with 15 years... Man, I wish I had this level of knowledge when I was 20...

Blaming the language for the market is a mistake... If you stop promoting PHP, more devs will start on other language, and the market will pay lower, since there is more people to pick from with that particular skill...

These companies then lobby the government, asking to be relieved of the fines, because if they go down, so many workers will be out of jobs, and that they will comply (pinky promise), so the fines should be lifted to help these innocent people...

Did you mean "Chrome"?

Another example to show why we need to get Firefox at least on the 20% market-share... Google is doing with Chrome exactly what Microsoft did with IE...