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Hope it helps!

There are a few userscripts out there which I could integrate into the extension. It depends on when this commit gets pushed into Lemmy core:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2397

After that, it could still be useful if someone wanted to block it browser wide. At that point I'd check if people still want something like that.

Sorry to those that have already seen this. I'm trying to space out the posts so it's not in a large clump in your feeds. People have different subscription lists, so I'm trying to reach those that haven't seen it yet.

These are the last 4 posts :)

Sorry to those that have already seen this. I'm trying to space out the posts so it's not in a large clump in your feeds. People have different subscription lists, so I'm trying to reach those that haven't seen it yet.

These are the last 4 posts :)

Sorry to those that have already seen this. I'm trying to space out the posts so it's not in a large clump in your feeds. People have different subscription lists, so I'm trying to reach those that haven't seen it yet.

These are the last 4 posts :)

Thank you, hope it helps!

That's fair, I've posted here in the past but I'll take it off my list moving forward. I think early on there wasn't much content so it was ok, but now that the community is rolling it's not that relevant

It's good feedback!

Oops, I definitely did

Should be fixed now

I was so excited when I finally got it working :)

I guess so, it would still be a problem. Once one extension is caught, it should be simpler to catch the rest.

It's harder to quickly switch stuff up when you need to send the devs new code to put in

From what I've experienced with my extension, every update has to go through a review process. Firefox is pretty fast, chrome takes a few days and edge takes a while (opera hasn't finished reviewing my first version, so I stopped trying with them).

The only time I failed a review was early on when my build script choked and I submitted an empty file to Chrome (whoops). So I can't really tell how good those reviews are, but I'm not planning on testing them. I just know that they exist

Don't extensions get reviewed by the various stores? I'd imagine an automated check could catch malicious integrations like that.

Maybe not right away, but once they catch wind of one shady extension they could just search the store for any other ones.

I like this one

https://canadiangeographic.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/36835094-Northwest_Passage_Wall.jpg

There ARE other downsides to this law, outside of the hissy fit Facebook is throwing.

For example, smaller independent news companies don't have the bargaining power to come to a fair agreement with Facebook, like the larger organizations can. A solution to that might be to have some standard rates set up, but again, don't know enough about it

I don't agree with the solution the government came up with, but the problem still exists and I don't understand it well enough to come up with an alternative solution.

Making news is expensive, and good quality news (not mucked up by corporate interests) needs a way to fund that work. We don't want news to be an outlet for corporations investing in a mouthpiece. So traditionally this was done through advertising.

Now people barely ever click through to the websites so the advertising doesn't work. Meanwhile the places where people ARE seeing the news do have ads. The content is produced by one party, and the profit goes to another.

The problem exists and needs a solution, but I don't know what it might be. Australia brought in a similar law successfully and Facebook/Google came to a deal. Canada might also be able to do that?

The other long term solution IMO is to make the platforms obsolete with things like Mastodon and Lemmy. That might take some time though

Not really emergency notifications but news, which tbh isn't as important in this case because non-Canadian news orgs aren't affected and are covering it too. So there isn't an immediate risk I don't think.

As for the main point: The problem is that a subset of the population ONLY gets information through one platform. The only way to reach them is through that platform, and not reaching them means excess costs when you have to rescue/treat/otherwise deal with the fallout. It's also the government's job to inform people and keep them safe.

At the same time, the companies need to be regulated by the government. Can't just let them have free reign because they seized control

Yep, it works perfectly

Bitwarden has it too, but eggs in one basket etc.

Yea someone actually just commented on the API and I should be able to find posts by link/title on other instances. Previously I was trying with the simple URL manipulation, but this would be a reasonable workaround. I'll give it a try soon :)

That was one of the first things I wanted out of this project, so it would be amazing to get it going