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Disable Javascript by default and make turning it on the exception. The web would be a much better place.


Text input lacks expected shortcuts, multi-select, good undo/redo, spellcheck underline, grammar check, smart features, text replacement, transformation conveniences, etc.

All menus lack basic/expected items, both in the menu bar to contextual menus (if they exist).

No standard find and replace. Missing options for pattern matching, diacriticals, case sensitivity, weird UI, etc. if this is included at all.

Low-accessibility, not even basic text to speech support for visual impairments.

Drag and drop support being poor and lacking, both for capturing data and importing data. Despite electron apps being glorified webpages, even selecting content is inhibited in most places.

Odd spacing of controls that is either too much or too little. Everything looks off and stands out in a bad way, like no one cares.

Electron apps are a total UI and UX mess and are worst-class citizens on macOS. If your idea of cross-platform makes a dev add platform specific BASICS, devs will simply not add them, assuming they know or care about them at all.

When I see an Electron app I think “this is an ass app from an ass dev” and throw most of them in the trash.


I've never seen Electron apps lacking proper keyboard behavior for inputs. Do you have an example?


Apple originally kept Siri audio for up to 2 years "for testing and product improvement purposes". I am not sure if that is still the case.

https://www.wired.com/2013/04/siri-two-years/


1.7B for a pro-censorship left-wing cheerleading site. Not worth.


How do you explain /r/the_donald then?


You mean how they are basically isolated from the whole site while all the other spam subs get a free pass?


Containment.


>cheerleading

So many ways that this can be unpacked. Bravo!


America's Health-Care Crisis???

You mean Obamacare didn't end skyrocketing costs and fix what it purported to? You mean the sole accomplishment of a corrupt President didn't accomplish anything? Say it isn't so!

Now explain why Marxist idiots "need" to "save" it.


You're not welcome to start flamewars like this, and you've been using this account primarily to post ideological comments, which counts as an abuse of the site. Please post civilly and substantively or not at all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Companies that do this are screwing themselves hard in the long-term. No one of value will want a job there.


WashPo, owned by Bezos whose fortune is in Amazon, is criticizing a competitor.


> for being politically too extreme

YouTube defines "politically too extreme" as anything that's slightly left of Fox News.

Google's News tab now promotes tmz, the onion, and buzzfeed as "news" over sites that actually break news and typically go against the "narrative". http://i.magaimg.net/img/co6.jpg

There's a reason I'm dropping all Google products and services from my life.


>YouTube defines "politically too extreme" as anything that's slightly left of Fox News.

I think you mean right of Fox News? Infowars is notoriously full of bullshit, and conservativetreehouse blocks google entirely [0].

[0]http://www.conservativetreehouse.com/robots.txt


No, Youtube is demonetizing anyone who disagrees with the narrative. Do you think pewdiepie is right of Fox News?

Do you think buzzfeed, printers of the 4chan fanfic "piss dossier" are not notoriously full of bullshit? Have tmz or mtv ever broken any story besides celebrity gossip? Every single "news" organization that printed fake polls for months claiming Hillary would win by huge margins is still considered "News" by Google and not demonetized by Youtube. You claim Infowars is full of shit, but they were spot on with the election coverage and calling the polls being fake and oversampled.

Why is Google's censoring of differing views tolerated?


Pewpiepie makes tons of money from Youtube. He's not banned. And most of his videos are monetized. The fact that he's the most successful Youtuber and that he has differing views that Youtube shows that Youtube allows people with differing views to succeed.


I never said he was banned.

> more than a third of his videos had become demonetized

http://www.polygon.com/2017/4/10/15246814/pewdiepie-youtube-...

> "I’m going to have [to be] family friendly from now on"

What daring and original content that's going to be. How "liberal" of YouTube and its massively "liberal" employee base. Such diversity of ideas and language being allowed. Such tolerance.


Diversity of ideas are allowed. The videos are not removed. If advertisers don't want to advertise on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDJMZWzW8Ko that's not Youtube's fault.

If not paying creators advertising money is censorship, then most other platforms have 100% censorship. Reddit, Vimeo, Facebook, Hacker News, Instagram, Streamable, Imgur all don't pay ad money to creators.


How were the polls fake when they were basically right? The state-polls for Wisconsin / Michigan in the end were wrong, but those states in the end were probably not polled enough to capture the volatility of unprecedented events like the Comey letter.

And FYI national polls predicted a 1-4% popular vote win, those where pretty much on the money.


What polls were "basically right" in the month, weeks, and days leading up to the election? I recall most of them being very off the mark because of their methodology. There were a ton of polls that consistently oversampled Democratic voters, women, and other groups to show results that favored Hillary. This is what made them fake polls. They were being conducted to produce a result that would reinforce a narrative.

Most Fake News (NBC, CBS, NYT, etc.) headlined these fake polls while not reporting sampling to their viewers. There's a reason almost all Fake News casters like Maddow were shocked on election night. They bought into their own lies and selective reporting. I learned of the sampling methodology from some of the very sites that Google now reports as "fake" and from Youtubers they have demonetized.

"Polls are used to influence public opinion, not reflect it."

What we're seeing is Google trying to control the narrative through search and monetization now. This is a more-extreme extension of the crap they pulled during the election (where Google search-complete consistently suggested positive things for Hillary and negative things for Trump).


https://twitter.com/JoshNoneYaBiz/status/852661406298198016

Reminder of fake polls pushed by fake news. Almost all of the establishment media reported polls like this leading up to the election. They traded all credibility to shill for their candidate. But Google did, too, so such sites are still considered "news" by Google's standards.


Did you actually try those searches in that screenshot? I get results when I try them.


Under the News tab you don't, and that's what the screenshots show.


Sorry I didn't see that.

But there are a lot of factors required to get listed, including applying. Maybe they didn't apply https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/40787?hl=en

And Inforwars called the Sandy Hook shooting a fake government action with child actors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap-DvMoiMOY (1:17:00) so I can see why that wouldn't be included.

The Onion is kind of disturbing, but at least it's labelled satire in the results.


> Fake news is specifically the creation of websites that look like legitimate news sites, with what look like legitimate articles, in order to generate click and ad revenue.

So CNN, NYT, WashPo, NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, etc.


Also known as sponsored content.


> they are nonetheless doing what the people told them to do

We call that a functioning democracy. The EU is the opposite of that.

EU: "You have to accept our way, even if you don't want it and it's bad for your country. It's for the good of our global group."


If you keep following that logic then the UK isn't being democratic either. Its bad for our province, its bad for our neighborhood, its bad for our street, its bad for our house, its bad for me, but you still have to follow it. The line has to be drawn somewhere when there is a government.

Drawing the line at a country level as opposed to an international level is a perfectly valid opinion to have, but I don't think its right to call the UK a functioning democracy and the EU the opposite


To me it just sounds like you don't like the Commission much. When you say 'the EU' most of the direction is set by the elected ministers of the member states.


Where are you getting that quote?


A functioning democracy also requires an educated and well-informed populace.

The UK absolutely does not hve that.


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