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Web Browsers/Web Servers/Feed Readers: Comics, Cloaking, and Mozilla/Firefox
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Jonathan Kamens ☛ Comics aggregator: more new comics, other improvements
A special note about “Fowl Language”: GoComics and ArcaMax publish this strip on different days, so you’re going to see duplicate strips in your feed if you subscribe to this one. Repetition is better than losing strips if GoComics freaks out again! But if it manages to stabilize for a while I may end up disabling the ArcaMax puller for this strip.
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Jono Alderson ☛ Cloaking is dead. Long live cloaking.
Cloaking is one of SEO’s oldest tricks. You show a search engine one version of a webpage, and your visitors something different. Google sees a respectable local dentist’s website, while anybody clicking through from the search results gets redirected to an online casino.
It’s a grubby practice, and one which Google has spent decades trying to detect and prevent. Quite rightly, too. Search engines ought to be able to trust that the pages they’re recommending are representative of the experience their users will encounter.
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Mozilla
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Mozilla ☛ Mozilla Open Policy & Advocacy Blog: A Reason for Optimism on US Competition Policy
Mozilla has long called for US antitrust reform in digital markets. After several false starts, real change has yet to materialize. In the meantime, dominant tech players have further entrenched their hold, limiting choice and degrading people’s experiences. Integration of new Hey Hi (AI) services into existing ecosystems is enabling those same companies to perpetuate and accelerate that power.
But, there’s reason for optimism. Momentum is again building toward antitrust reform, and this time feels different. With support from start ups, middle tech challengers, civil society, and think tanks across the political spectrum – and most importantly, legislative champions in Congress – it’s clear that the time is coming.
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Mozilla ☛ Mozilla Addons Blog: Developer Spotlight: Profile Manager Pro
If your online activities involve logging in and out of a lot of different accounts — often on the same website — Profile Manager Pro can be a time-saving game changer. The extension provides a one-click login process for multiple online accounts, so you can effortlessly jump between profiles. From social control media management to web development, QA testing and more, Profile Manager Pro removes the painstaking friction of constant account switching.
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