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We've come a long way baby (i.imgur.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
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[–] 25 points 2 years ago (17 children)

This seems like a pretty dumb thing to do to try to wipe out a browser with 2% marketshare.

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  • [–] 61 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    "I'm switching from Chrome because they killed ad blocking."

    "OMG! Firefox takes 5 seconds to even load webpages! I'll just go back to Chrome."

    The goal is to prevent the competition from growing.

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  • [+] 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] [S] 28 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Obviously there a people in charge now who will never understand the Streisand effect. They could have kept it quiet and just... allow... the technical adept users to do their thing. Now, they are the laughing stock and get unwanted attention. Also, from my layman understanding, this shit won't fly in the EU at all.

    Or, to say it differently: This is the best thing to happen to Mozilla in quite a long time and I'm a fan.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    I'm out of the loop. What happened? Did someone decompile their code and find definitive proof of a throttle for Firefox?

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  • [–] [S] 20 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    some explanation

    To be fair, they used setTimeout() and not thread.sleep() because the latter isn't possible out of the box in JS ^^

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    JavaScript is an interpreted language, so no decompilation is necessary, although this is repeatable by using a Firefox user agent.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    You can build a virtual machine in JavaScript and execute compiled code on it

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Just because you can...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I'm guessing that it's a way for them to test if ads have been loaded after initial scripts have run, but I'm not going to dig into the code.

    Honestly, the whole ads thing is missing the point. If you desired a public video hosting platform, that needs to be a tax-funded commons. Video hosting and streaming is very expensive. Similarly, users should be donating to keep Lemmy going:

    https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld

    https://patreon.com/mastodonworld

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