• Daily Mail demands browser warning U-turn
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46976834
Hahahaha But its true so sucks for you
Hey this browser extension seems pretty cool, it's like Media Bias Fact Check but more detailed and as a browser extension Thanks Daily Mail, I've installed it in Chrome
I really hope they don't bow to pressure and remove it. Fuck the Daily Cunty Mail.
Visitors to the right-wing US conspiracy site InfoWars, the left-wing US political blog Daily Kos and the Russian government news agency Sputnik also see the same words of advice. You know maybe this would be the cue for the Daily Mail, and it's readers online, to consider reviewing their journalistic practices if they're being categorised alongside the likes of InfoWars
http://horobox.co.uk/u/reag/2019-01-23_22-39-49.png Forgot this was built into Edge and it was available for everything else. Gonna be handy in the future. Daily Mail indirectly recommending something good.
Streisand effect, how I adore thee.
I'd prefer a complete U-turn on the existence of the Daily Mail myself
truth hurts doesnt it, slimeballs?
you saw how quickly the internet responded when ABP got compromised
I mean they don't block it, just warn you
The Daily Mail doesn't care since this is their business model, but the readers should so I hope they don't remove the warning.
Thanks for the recommendation, Daily Mail! Hadn't heard of this before but it sounds like a good addition to MBFC's extension so I can be a bit better informed about the quality of a given news source.
Counteroffer: how about the daily mail stops being a lying harmful shitrag and then they might consider removing the warning.
MAGA hats are already downvoting the extension so it's gotta be good.
The Daily Mail has done the same amount of damage to the UK that FOX has done to the US. Fuck the Daily Mail.
Lol https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/225943/dcd7771d-871c-4249-971b-b4d16439d58d/078cB8U.png
Daily Mail is complete trash so nothing lost. Theyre not even news, just a shit stirring company for the elderly.
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Interesting that it says "We do not collect any personal data of any kind from those using our extension." on their website but Raymond Hill (creator of uBlock Origin) says this - https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1085980638405148676
At the same time though his source is the FSB complaining that they get flagged.
https://twitter.com/NewsGuardRating/status/1086031363894099975
If you seriously think companies like the Daily Mail actually care about their journalistic standards and not just how much outrage and how many clicks/views they can get, then you are seriously misinformed. The only reason they acknowledge this extension in the first place is to save face and so it causes outrage from their regular readers, and thus the cycle continues.
I remember a similar but more generalized add-on called Web of Trust/WOT was removed a few years ago after it was discovered they were selling user info to third parties. Iirc it got reinstated after some time now but it would be nice if they are honest in their app's intent and that it is indeed not logging or storing any information.
No, his source is his own look into the extension. The Wikileaks tweet is what he replied to, probably because it caught his attention. If a journalist working for, for example, the BBC talked about a topic by replying to a Wikileaks tweet about it, would that make the journalist's "source" Wikileaks? No.
To be fair from a technical perspective, what's the alternative? Downloading the entire database of ratings to each user, and running logic there?
To be fair that is how adblockers work I think? You subscribe to something like EasyList and it updates regularly. Maybe they could do it that way
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