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Abstractions episodes
- Really Gross Euphemism
Mozilla adds ad tracking to its Firefox web browser, while the Kagi search engine eschews ads in favor of a paid search business model.
- Mozilla announces Firefox ad tracking on their blog
- Mozilla knowledge base entry on “Privacy-Preserving Attribution”
- Browser market share over last decade
- Kagi search engine
- Why pay for search?
- Kagi Lenses
- Kagi personalized results
- Kagi URL re-direction feature
- Other Kagi features
You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space.
Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.
38 min - Perfectly Cromulent Hardware
Justin has a new toy, everything runs software now, and the Overcast podcast app has been significantly re-written.
You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space.
Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.
1 hr 25 min - The Rubber Never Hits the Road
We start with an introduction to Abstractions and a little bit about its hosts before diving into today’s topics: Google killing its URL obfuscator and automatic passkey upgrades.
- Google kills its goo.gl URL obfuscator
- Killed by Google, AKA the Google Graveyard
- Apple WWDC video on automatic passkey upgrades
You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space.
Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca.
1 hr 10 min
About Abstractions
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Abstractions is a podcast about technology, software, hardware, and the Internet, and the way the ever-increasing layers of these technologies permeate every aspect of our everyday lives.