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My only issue is if I haven't been to a site in a while it makes an error showing page not found or something similar, then a reload fixes it.

Otherwise, it's a godsend, especially on mobile. Though some...unscrupulous sites...I visit on mobile on some occasions still manage to redirect me to crazy shit. But I get way less adds pretending I have a virus.


Why remove descriptions from bookmarks? I know they're not the most useful thing, but I don't get the benefit of removing them.


I suspect it's simply "one less thing to worry about when we sync with the cloud".


I suspect the long game here is eliminating user bookmarking altogether. Why would you want to use something as archaic as a saved URL, when there's a service that knows where you want to go to on the Internet better than you could ever decide for yourself?


They spent lots of money on Pocket and are increasingly pushing people to use it. Making the built-in bookmarks worse is an easy way to make Pocket look better by comparison.


In Europe after all the stuff they just went through implementing the new privacy stuff for them? Someone must have missed the memo.


You assume someone missed a memo and it wasn't intentional.


Facebook is very good at missing memos. It makes them quite a bit of money.


am I the only one who is cynical enough to think that they might be doing the face recognition already for a while. its that with GDPR they may have to disclose it so they are making a pretext that we just enabled it please feel free to opt out now that we have trained our models anyways.


Or watch one of the many free channels on youtube?

Why would I pay for the small amount of content here when I could watch Scam School(https://www.youtube.com/user/scamschool) for free with a host who's other work I really enjoy?


> Or watch one of the many free channels on youtube?

Hopefuly the quality will be better. Most of the free teaching videos of magic in youtube leave a lot to be desired and are often harmful if you really want to learn close magic.

The link you provide (although way better than average) doesn't offer a structured way of learning card magic, and that matters.

Disclaimer: Please note that I am not related in any way to OP. I'm just a magic aficionado that loves the art and had passed throught the "youtube" phase too.


It's fair. Brian's goal is to present magic tricks in a cool, fun way to get people started and interested.


And that's super cool, I can see how one can get hook into magic because of his work, the good thing though is that his audience is different from OP's audience.

Although if you ask me I still prefer the old fashion way and go to your local magic shop and meet the local magicians and grab a good book :)


Saw that guy on Penn and Teller: Fool Us. He actually fooled them, IIRC. Thanks for the pointer to the yt channel!


here's the youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJEYtEo7c-c

was he on twice?


I think he was also in season 1.


Love Scam School - he's a great teacher and fun to watch.


Does EME being implemented finally mean that I can uninstall Silverlight for watching Netflix in Firefox in the near future?


I believe that now you can use the HTML5 player on Netflix if you're on OS X or Windows. Linux still can't however.


Now if only I could uninstall flash. One day...


Don't do it. I've been using the non-silverlight Netflix in Safari and it's such a nightmare I switched back. Constantly fails to load content.


I wonder why you have issues and I don't. The only new thing I've noticed with Netflix on HTML5 is my battery life has near-doubled.


Really? I had some issues with the very first release of HTML5 Netflix, but it is pretty solid now.


Might need to look at it again. I used it throughout the last OS X beta and then it still had issues in the first release so I moved away from it.


Safari on Mac OS X uses entirely different code than Firefox on Windows for encrypted media. It's more a limitation of OS X. On Windows, Firefox will download and install the Adobe Media bits to handle DRM video.


Well that`s annoying. At least the newer version of the Silverlight player supports HD, didn't appear to before. That was my main reason for wanting the HTML5 version.


Comparing HTML5 Netflix playback using Safari on OS X vs Firefox on Windows is not really an apples-to-apples comparison.


At least you have the option. My girlfriend`s Mac supports the latest version of OSX and Safari but not HTML5 playback.


That depends on which OS you use.


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