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Seconded. Does anyone know if the phone home "feature" has been removed from CyanogenMod?


Presumably any of Google's data gathering will use Google Play Services, and so using Cyanogenmod would be no protection against it if the gapps package has also been installed.


<strike>I'm running uBlock Origin and still getting the notification about adblocker. They seem to be running some sort of detection mechanism.</strike>

I was running standard uBlock and didn't realize it. Origin seems to bypass the detection.


Hrmmmm, running uBlock Origin 1.7.2, and got hit by it.


Go to µBlock Origin settings, 3rd-Party Filters, check "Adblock Warning Removal List" and "Anti-Adblock Killer | Reek‎".


The government needs to stop trying to reinvent the wheel and just build more A-10's. Infantry guys across the board swear by them - they are one of the most popular pieces of air support in existence for a reason.

The A-10's are a a heavy chain gun with a plane built around it. They are armored up and can take serious flak while still completing the mission. Its amazing what the A-10's can go through and come out safely on the other end.

They are a known cost (not a budgetary blackhole/f-35). We have plenty of pilots to fly them and techs to repair them. Fact is, the F35 was/is not designed for the close air support (CAS) mission.


If user growth and mainstream adoption are your goals then calling the product 'Signal' is the better choice by leaps and bounds.

Axolotl is cool in a techy/underground sort of way (if your into that) but completely misses the boat on being 1) Easy to spell, 2) easy to pronounce, 3) easy to understand.

Mainstream users would just say "wtf" and move on to whatsapp/telegram/facebook messenger.


Honest question here - why not just rent and wait it out?

edit/from the article; Rentals are hard to come by, and just as unaffordable. The vacancy rate of 0.8 percent is one of the lowest in the country, and the average monthly rent of C$937 for a bachelor suite is tied at highest with the cost in Toronto, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. Rents for newly built units and renovated basement suites are pricier.


You've pretty much got it. Still, while expensive, renting is still much more affordable than buying. The other problem is, decent SFH rentals are very difficult to come by. Here in Victoria, my friends who are looking for houses are all starting families and would like more space than most apartments offer. Many of them would be fine with renting as long as prices are unbalanced, but the rental market selection if you want something larger than a 2-bedroom apartment is really sparse. Plus, many of the places you can find are only there until the owners manage to sell them, which obviously isn't ideal if you're looking to settle down.


> renting is still much more affordable than buying

Because rent is constrained by wages. Land prices are constrained by fiat issuance. Fiat issuance is constrained by credibility.


stop using repeat offending website


Very few users can detect that they are being tracked, so they can't avoid it. The tracking methods are designed to be undetectable; web beacons are invisible pixels; sites don't tell users: we track this info and share it with these people; even privacy policies usually are ambiguous, and they are too long and complex to read for every site someone visits.


because sites can be hacked or changed at any time, the ability of users to avoid offenders is basically zero.


Also, its hard to see that same Foundation that is used to 300M checks being successful for very long after the revenue dries up.


My wife was complaining about the performance of her computer. Shes running a MacBook Air, Chrome, Firefox and Quickbooks. Ran a system check and Firefox running 7 tabs (2 spreadsheets, 1 email, 1 pinterest and browising 3 ecom sites) was taking up over 1.4gb of ram. Seriously.

Killed Firefox and the system responsiveness was considerably better. Its amazing that the memory bloat in FF has been allowed to go on for so long. But hey, IoT!


Use and performance of its core product, Firefox.


The fact that we are still talking about Pocket being integrated in 2016 amazes me. Especially considering that Mozilla was designed and intended as a community project.


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