It is, it always been, and it's getting worse, they will flag you for calling them out, here is the message they kept flagging on the pro american cloud act post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32093891
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This is a website using the .eu domain to spread an american propaganda (anti EU act, Pro American cloud act), led by Mozilla and an agency from UK using a 3rd party entity to be able to register said domain in EU, everything hosted in US servers btw
No moderators flagged or even saw your posts. Users were flagging them.
I've seen them now, though, and what you did in that thread was egregiously abusive. Moreover, you've been using HN primarily for political/nationalistic battle. We ban such accounts, for obvious reasons (they destroy what this site is supposed to be for) and I've therefore banned your account.
If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
(This has nothing to do with disagreeing with your politics. I don't know what they are.)
Everything listed can be achieved by using uBlock Origin
There is a reason why people abandoned Firefox, Mozilla refused to fix the performance issues, they refused to do something about the toolbar bloat, the browser became a nest for adwares/malwares, a security and privacy nightmare
and later they refused to abandon the Google deal
Google came with chrome and everyone switched, safe, efficient, reliable, and it stayed with the same UX since the beginning, a win for the users
Privacy? they don't share your data with anybody, there are no 3rd party addons or 3rd party links, unlike with Firefox for example (Pocket, Google, Duckduckgo, and various Ads in your home page)
Chrome or Chromium is the way to go if you care about:
- security
- privacy
- battery usage
Concerning their position of power, i don't buy it, Apple and WebKit have a greater impact imo and now that Microsoft is working on Chromium, it no longer is a viable argument
Because they lack taste for quality and efficiency, they don't want to invest in R&D and they don't know how to retain talents
So you get companies that stagnate and higher ups are too focused on building a huge wealth and work hard to secure a golden parachute, maintaining their position and salary is higher priority
C# needs a fat runtime, has a slow JIT (say hi to micro stutters in your gameplay and increased input latency), has a slow GC and worst of all is owned by Microsoft with a proprietary debugger that you can only use on visual studio (licence they changed overnight because Jetbrains released a C# IDE)
There are much better languages for game scripting (LUA for example)
Sounds like the proper way to finally get rid of the deadly virus
People die in mass everywhere in the world, the west is full of anti-vax
Imagine if they let the opium war continue back in the days
You can't improvise policies, look at the US, monkeypox cases are spreading at an; this time you can use the word; alarming rate