Yeah, I find it hard to believe this wasn’t their goal, especially considering they found this bug in testing and still released the update: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47994193

I’m also not a fan of Slack, but it doesn’t break new things every week while also putting ads in your face, so that’s a plus.

Teams is also only communication.

Slack isn’t great, but at least a few years ago it was much, much better than Teams

Yes, it is. No, the delays on Youtube don’t come from the performance of the adblocking code, so you won’t notice many differences. But more efficient adblocking is good for everyone - noticeably more so on devices with batteries, but still helpful for everyone.

Well, that’s a pretty useless approach for tech discussions, because this kind of attack is explicitly not possible on Firefox.

Also, extrapolating such a broad statement from the simple fact that it’s possible to unreliably detect the presence of a single broad category of extensions is a huge reach.

You can see if an ad is served and displayed or not

This doesn’t tell you which specific extensions a user has installed. First, the filter lists are mostly shared between ad blockers, so you can at best tell that some adblock extension is installed, but not which one. Second, the ad might fail to load for a variety of other reasons (e.g. user is offline, firewall blocking URLs/endpoints, network-level DNS adblock, …), so all you can tell is that the user might have an adblock extension installed. That’s far milder than your initial premise: “My point is that any assumption that your extensions are not detected is a delusion[…]”

you can detect if an iteraction was originated by an user or automatic

Sure, and how does this help with detecting the installed extensions? Knowing that the click event wasn’t triggered by the user doesn’t tell you who triggered it.

you can see if letters were pasted or input at a speed no human can match

Again, how does this help with detecting the installed extensions?

It is absolutely a secret! Based on the discussions I’ve seen, many people in the field were quite surprised that this technique works. So just like Meta’s recent-ish WebRTC scandal, this was a secret, even if the code always showed what it does.

My point is that any assumption that your extensions are not detected is a delusion

It is? How are these websites detecting my Firefox extensions?

Ah yes, who doesn’t read through the minified bundles of every page they open. I fucking love reading through megabytes of uglified code!

Well yes, but have you also considered that line must go up?

Not righteous at all, bro :(

What a fucking piece of shit.

I have to admit, every time a story like this comes out, it makes me distrust any other large company all the more. When this whole thing first started, I already expected the publisher to be lying. Looks like the pattern holds true!

No, you couldn’t.

Homomorphic Encryption is a well-known field of research in cryptography. Honestly, if you are capable of understanding the proofs, you don’t need them to be listed on Wikipedia.

Then please, show us an example of AI doing effective QA, should be trivial!

The Wayland story for such tools was pretty bad for a while, but AFAIK the necessary protocols are now in place, so it should be possible to build this now (though probably not with all features due to security).

But I’d love something like AHK with a saner scripting language, maybe Lua or JS (through QuickJS)!

Have you heard the good news of our Lord and Savior, atomic Fedora versions? It’s even easier there because the driver is part of the image itself, and rollbacks are as easy as selecting a different entry in the boot manager.

Unlikely, browser vendors are very careful adding such APIs, and MS doesn’t have the pull Google does.

A simple fix is, of course, not to use Edge.

The browser version shouldn’t be able to access this info.

That’s why I love induction - this happened a few times to me as well, but since I always move the pots & pans off the hot plates, they turn off automatically.

Fascinatingly the fire is an important part of their reproductive cycle. When a firefighter dies in combat, the heat makes their body spread seeds far and wide. After roughly a year, a new crop will be growing from the ashes.