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wguaaon 102KB ought to be enough for any email

>This is annoying for people sending newsletters - even the mighty MailChimp can do no more than offer some tips to shrink your latest newsletter.

I'm so sad that you can't send me more elaborate ads :'( :'(

wguaaon Google relents slightly on blocking ad-blockers for enterprise Chrome users

No thanks.

wguaaon Google relents slightly on blocking ad-blockers for enterprise Chrome users

So to keep using uBlock Origin at its full functionality I'll have to flip a configuration bit on Chrome first?

wguaaon Google’s Chrome Becomes Web ‘Gatekeeper’ and Rivals Complain

Really pathetic to see people here defending Mozilla putting ads on the home page of the browser.

What do you think of when the Mozilla Corporation sent the browsing history of users by default to a third party advertisement company?

>Users who receive a version of Firefox with Cliqz will have their browsing activity sent to Cliqz servers, including the URLs of pages they visit.

https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2017/10/06/testing-cliqz-i...

wguaaon Google’s Chrome Becomes Web ‘Gatekeeper’ and Rivals Complain

>Chrome wouldn't have gotten anywhere if it wasn't a very good browser. It is good.

It is not only good. When it came out it wiped the floor with the alternatives. Firefox 3, from that time, was absolutely pathetic in terms of performance. I remember sticking to 2 for a while. Even today Chrome is still the best, even if the margin has narrowed. Other browsers are having to adopt Blink to catch up.

wguaaon Banned bread: why does the US allow additives that Europe says are unsafe?

I've heard of many shitty foods like that spray can cheese that Americans eat, and cringed hard at them, but I've always assumed they can also get good stuff if they want to. If they can't, though, that's honestly very grave.