@andypiper @bodil @ConnyDuck

That makes sense!

I've seen some say that the don't use cookies, but they do use JavaScript (which is obviously on the user's device), but frankly I suspect that the ePrivacy risk is incredibly low...

Helping a friend do something on their computer, I noticed that they didn’t have an ad blocker.

Security and privacy aside, their browsing experience was atrocious.

Impossibly, unusably dire.

Now they have an adblocker, and web pages are uncluttered? Readable? Actually usable?

What a sorry state of affairs.

Adblocking is self care and just plain sensible.

Today - 31 March - is World Backup Day.

The spare World Backup Day is tomorrow.

(Don’t forget to test restoration :))

@simonzerafa @liw

So if UK users aren't of use to you or your services then why are you serving them at the moment?

A default of "I'm happy to make stuff available to anyone, anywhere in the world, until their country makes that too risky" seems both common and sensible to me, in the context of a World Wide Web?

The USA sees the UK's Online Safety Act 2023, and its purported extra-territorial effect, as a threat to freedom of expression as enshrined in the US constitution.

Who'd have thought?!

#OnlineSafetyAct

Have you forgotten to put out the bins / recycling?

Microsoft is introducing ads into a free version of Office, which seemingly only lets users save to OneDrive.

In other news, LibreOffice is also free, doesn't have ads, and lets you save your documents wherever you want. I use it every day for my work. It is available here:

Home | LibreOffice - Free and private office suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with Microsoft

Free office suite – the evolution of OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx. Updated regularly, community powered.

(www.libreoffice.org)

Never underestimate the ever-present peril of developing for Windows using a 32-bit unsigned integer, with a range of 0 through 4294967, as a data type.

It hangs there, like the DWORD of Damocles.