65 posts tagged ‘Web’
Invidious and FreeTube
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Invidious (Hacker News): Invidious is an open source alternative front-end to YouTube.[…]Invidious protects you from the prying eyes of Google. It won’t track you either![…]Invidious allows you to subscribe to channels and create playlists, without needing a YouTube account. FreeTube (Hacker News): FreeTube is an open source desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind. […]
Link Unshortener Updates
Jeff Johnson: Link Unshortener 9.0 adds a convenient list of all your installed web browsers so that you can open a link in any browser with one click or keypress. And if you set Link Unshortener itself as your default web browser in System Preferences, then whenever you click a link in an external app […]
More Stack Overflow Layoffs
Prashanth Chandrasekar (Hacker News): This is why we have been so focused on our path to profitability, even as we commit to the continued product innovation of Stack Overflow for Teams and the health of the public platform by building out our AI/ML capabilities. This year we took many steps to spend less. Changes have […]
Atlassian to Abandon On-Prem Perpetual Products
Simon Sharwood (Hacker News): Atlassian once offered its wares in three forms. The preferred option is from the cloud, in conventional software-as-a-service style that sees Atlassian manage software and infrastructure. Users can also buy datacenter licenses that renew annually and require self-management. Until 2021, you could also get server products under a perpetual license, but […]
Relative Time Labels
Nikita Prokopov: Why is nobody excited about these “yesterday”/“2 days ago”/“a week ago” labels?Because they pretend to speak human language, but they actually don’t. For a human, yesterday is “at the day before”, “between 0am..11:59pm the day before today”.No human uses “less that 24 hours” as the definition of “yesterday”. Computers, unfortunately, do. Add here […]
Dischler Testimony on AdWords Fraud
Adi Robertson: As the second week of the US v. Google antitrust trial gets underway, the Department of Justice is focusing on the real moneymaker behind Google Search: ads. It alleges that Google’s dominance lets it raise prices for advertisers with few repercussions — a claim backed up by Google ads executive Jerry Dischler on […]
Brave Layoffs
Ivan Mehta (Hacker News): Brave Software, the maker of Brave Browser and Search, confirmed that it has laid off 9% of its staff across departments. The company didn’t specify how many people were affected, but it corroborated the development and said the decision was driven by the tough economic climate. Previously: Mozilla Layoffs
Google Changes Search Queries to Show More Ads
Megan Gray (via Jason Kottke): When you enter a query, you might expect a search engine to incorporate synonyms into the algorithm as well as text phrase pairings in natural language processing. But this overhaul went further, actually altering queries to generate more commercial results.There have long been suspicions that the search giant manipulates ad […]