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    3 days ago

    Google is really damned if they do, damned if they don’t here. Third party cookies are very privacy invasive, but replacing it with Chrome watching everything you do and acting as an ad broker is also not great. As long as Google is providing targeted advertising (which you could opt out of in privacy sandbox) then there’s not a really great solution.

    I do think they dragged this along enough that all sites now operate properly with third party cookies disabled, so that’s a benefit at least.







  • I haven’t heard of the game but see that it’s going for $27. For me at least, buying a $27 game, I’d expect 10 hours minimum of enjoyable gameplay, which throws the free refund out the window if it would deliver.

    It could be possible that they wanted to increase their game length to justify the price and stretched things if the first 80 minutes were tedious and slow. I’m sure there’s some consideration to front load the enjoyment into the first few hours, with or without the refund, but I would assume lesser priced games would focus on that and not one going for this price.




  • This isn’t an overnight change, we have 3 years until the 47 day certificates go into effect.

    In terms of increasing their capacity by the 10x, having shorter certificate lifetimes means that CAs will have a shorter list of valid but revoked certificates, and also will have way less of valid certificates in the certificate transparency logs. These are checked constantly, so the reduced size means less costs serving this information.

    CAs are already charging an arm and a leg for very little work of signing the certificates. Doing domain validation is an automated process, so unless the need is for OV certificates (which doesn’t differentiate you anymore in modern browsers), CAs won’t need to hire more people for issuing certificates. With Let’s Encrypt being a free option that supports ACME, if CAs use this change as a cash grab, they’ll probably see clients move away rather than put up with the outrageous costs.



  • Won’t this push it past the 100 day extension period congress did authorize in the original bill that was signed into law? Even if Trump said he won’t enforce the fine for Google, Apple, and Oracle for distributing the app, Democrats should make it clear they will go after those companies once Trump no longer controls the DoJ.