You're right to be apprehensive and skeptical, most of the Firefox forks leave a lot to be desired. Usually maintained by anonymous randoms that most likely aren't experts on the technology. That's why I would instead recommend the Mullvad browser which is also a Firefox fork, but is being maintained by a profitable company with reputable engineers. Whose main product focuses around protecting your privacy and securing you.
The only potential issue with it is that it might be TOO good at anonymizing you, to the point that you set off security measures, ala Cloudflare, simply by NOT leaking any juicy data to identify you.
Your comment is so naive in underestimating these incredibly powerful devices.
You can't even begin to imagine what it's like because you're some old guy but these kids who don't know any difference have absolutely devastated their reward mechanisms. A newspaper is easy to skim in a half hour, you might be bored enough to re-read all the articles if you had nothing else to do. These devices however are constantly spewing out limitless novel information which creates FOMO dependency. Youth have had an infinite supply of 4K resolution stimulation in front of their faces ever since they could communicate. Persuaded by the biggest communications platforms to ever exist, and their algorithms to manipulate emotions and desires.
These youth have been primed to be constantly engaged consumers by decades of advertising, technology, psychological studying and implementation. You are seen as "weird" if you don't have a social media that is posted on frequently. People cannot focus on reading a book anymore. People prefer to document an experience rather than "living in it".
> Mar 15, 2023 — According to data from DataReportal, the average American spends 6 hours and 59 minutes looking at a screen every day.
Open.AI and ChatGPT itself. Ask it. The conversations ChatGPT feed back into the model, it's one of the ways they improve it. In particular, if you can get it to admit it's wrong on something, and it verifies that internally, it won't make the same mistake again. It's self-correcting in that way.
> These eight tests were repeated ten times each and revealed that ChatGPT seems to hold a bias towards progressive views. The political compass test revealed a bias towards progressive and libertarian views, with the average coordinates on the political compass being (-6.48, -5.99) (with (0, 0) the center of the compass, i.e., centrism and the axes ranging from -10 to 10)
Nothing inherently wrong with that line of text besides the KKK hashtag (a dead organization). All cultures should stand up for themselves, no? The average nationalist Jew in Israel says things much more extreme.
It certainly can when they become overwhelming. People are less likely to get involved in the community around them when it doesn't represent them, which results in things like lower societal cohesion. Less social trust; we've all seen this everyday. People would rather take a video of someone getting beat up than go to help them, risking their own skin. They do not identify with that person. They're just another body.
Things like not feeling represented in your own community due to the division leads to social isolation "at best" and extreme intolerance at worst.
Not everyone wants to identify with consumption which is what the multicultural world essentially demands. In egalitarianism your heritage, roots, genes are not very important.
What "is" important is how much money you have, what you consume, the fleeting brands you like, etc.
Google Form -> Google Sheets -> Email on new entry, is a great way to do contact forms on a static site as well. It's quite easy to customize the look of any Google form.
> I got a very unhelpful "your app has been suspended from accessing the Twitter API" email this morning. It would appear that all I needed to do was create a "project" in the developer portal and move this app into it, and everything seems to be working as before.
Yeah, if I go to the developer portal, I still get the "Application Received" page from a couple of years ago when I asked for v2 access. Can't do anything else (much like many people replying to the twitterdev account pointing this out.)
I think for now my Twitter bots are just dead until the sociopath is no longer in charge and they revert all his changes.
Definitely lots of creativity on BHW, from the black hat side of things. They often try to exploit things quickly in a churn and burn fashion. Most of their advice shouldn't be followed because eventually they get punished for their methods. With that said there is still tons of general marketing wisdom to be gleamed from them. Especially the older threads that go over buyer psychology and such. It's Googles favorite forum anyway, they like to keep up with the baddies.
Has there been any real development in the industry during the last 10 years? Back then it was basically: optimise your site and ask/buy links. The techniques of keyword stuffing, link wheels and splogs had already passed by then.
https://mullvad.net/en/browser
The only potential issue with it is that it might be TOO good at anonymizing you, to the point that you set off security measures, ala Cloudflare, simply by NOT leaking any juicy data to identify you.