Madrigal

Bug fixing is not a reason to enable massive privacy violations.

That much is true.

you can send it to a server

Yes, because web browsers, under current web architecture, allow this.

This is entirely my point.

That can all be done 100% client side. The server does not need this information.

Here’s the information a web server needs to deliver content to a browser:

• The requested resource
• An IP address
• User credentials (sometimes)

Everything else is a fucking security hole. There’s no good reason for servers to know what extensions you have installed, what OS you’re running, the dimensions of your browser window, where your mouse cursor is positioned, or any one of a thousand other data points that browsers freely hand over.

Still don’t really understand why browsers expose this data to sites.

Web browsers are just such a massive security hole.

But…but Magic Box™

Do you understand what scraping is? This is not a browser for everyday use.

Given that Microsoft’s own people are publicly using the phrase “Garbage In, Garbage Amplified”, perhaps garbage amplifiers is a suitable term for these products.

Two data points: What their intern could do with React; what their intern couldn’t do with React.

“West Germany, though, so you can imagine how that conversation went.”

And the high-range dosimeter from the safe burned out immediately. It must have been faulty!

Stop feeding it.

Your money, or your personal data, used for whatever damned purpose they choose.

That’s really the choice.

It was the last version I needed. Six months gaming on Linux and I haven’t looked back.

The way I see it, they think GenAI is the new portal to information, the way search has been for the last 25-30 years. They want to control that portal, because it’s worth trillions over time.

This is why they’re cramming it into everything and worrying about use cases later. It’s a land grab.