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[–] smpl@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 10 months ago

Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) [42] is widely used for second-party tracking in smart TVs. As shown in Figure 1, ACR periodically captures frames (and/or audio), builds a fingerprint of the content, and then shares it with an ACR server for matching it against a database of known content (e.g., movies, ads, live feed). When the fingerprint matches, ACR server can determine exactly what piece of content is being watched on the smart TV.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06203

[–] smpl@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 10 months ago

Netscape Communicator, Netscape Communicator, KHTML, Netscape Communicator

[–] smpl@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

As a general stance "People want me to give them free shit. I say gtfo.", I understand you.

That's just not proportional to Mozilla and Firefox. In 2022 they had a total revenue of $595 million¹. That allows them to hire 3305 software developers at a salary of $180.000. Google was responsible for 81% of that revenue¹. If you remove Google and their influence from the equation you're left with $113 millon and Mozilla can then hire 628 software developers. I think that would be more than adequate to maintain a browser.

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation
[–] smpl@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

lol, I think we're giving too little credit to the marketing people in tech. I want to read their blogs!

[–] smpl@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 10 months ago (13 children)

You could try out Linux Mint¹, they're Ubuntu based and disable Snap by default².

  1. https://linuxmint.com
  2. https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/snap.html
[–] smpl@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 11 months ago

It's a pillar of democracy to protect the autonomy of the people.

[–] smpl@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 11 months ago

It is a human right..

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