User agents are essentially deprecated and are going to become less and less useful over time. The replacement is either client hints or feature detection, depending on what you’re using it for.

Most developers just write their own feature checks (a lot of detections are just a single line of code) or use a library that polyfills the feature if it’s missing.

The person you’re replying to is right, though. Modernizr popularized this approach. It predates npm, and npm still isn’t their main distribution method, so the npm download numbers don’t mean anything.

That’s exactly what you’re supposed to do with the modern web, via feature detection and client hints.

The user agent in Chrome (and I think Firefox too) is “frozen” now, meaning it no longer receives any major updates.

There’s a bunch of newspapers already with the option between pay for privacy plus or accept tracking.

The EU has ruled that this isn’t sufficient and that people shouldn’t have to pay for privacy.

Of course, companies in the USA won’t care, except for customers in California (thanks, CCPA and CPRA).

Shopping apps aren’t really needed, I mean people could use the websites instead

You could say the same thing for probably half the apps in the app stores, and yet people keep installing the apps. On iPhones, I think part of it is the fact that iOS had such poor support for PWAs.

Didi (Chinese Uber) is very popular in Australia too.

You can just click deny instead. The law says the site must make it easy to do so.

That’s Hyundai/Kia’s fault though. For whatever reason, they cheaped out and didn’t include an immobilizer in 2011-2022 models (meaning the cars don’t actually verify that there’s a key in it, so you can just remove the key hole and turn the ignition with a screwdriver or USB cable or whatever to start it).

Before TikTok, this would have just spread on different platforms…

I’m not defending TikTok though.

I understand blocking TikTok, and China already blocks US social media sites. I don’t really understand blocking a shopping app, though. TikTok are grasping at straws.

Wouldn’t this set a dangerous precedent? If the government blocks a shopping app, what else will they block in the future? It’s a slippery slope to government censorship. China may do the same thing and block US stores, which would hurt the US economy.

The fact that Nintendo are going for a patent claim rather than a copyright claim makes me think that they don’t think a copyright claim would be successful.

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The kerning looks okay - it’s the font that’s weird.

Which is actually a good thing. Might sound scarry and counterintuitive at first, but is the right way to go.

My point was more that if you do change email address, you should change to your own domain, since then you won’t have to change it again in the future :)

using aliases for all the different places…

Yeah this is great. I use a catchall email so anything @ my domain goes to me.

I haven’t checked the CORS headers for YouTube videos but wouldn’t access have to be fairly open to allow embedded videos to work?

MXroute are great. I switched to self-hosting my email server using Mailcow a few years ago, but still use MXroute for outbound email (meaning my SMTP server relays outbound email via MXroute). They’ve got deliverability figured out and have several fallbacks - I think if all of their outbound servers fail to send the email, they retry via Mailbaby and Mailchannels.

Forwarding is a decent approach too. Just note that it’s not 100% reliable (due to limitations around spam filtering) and you will sometimes have emails that get dropped.

On the web, it would not be possible.

Why not?

Gmail can be easily replaced, by like Proton mail or something

Except for the fact that you’ll need to update your email address in so many places.

If you do move to a different provider, make sure you use your own domain. It’s way more professional, and it lets you move to a different provider in the future without having to change your email address again. I’ve had one of my email addresses for a bit over 20 years across a bunch of different providers.

The paid version of Protonmail lets you have up to 3 custom domains. MXRoute and FastMail let you use your own domain too. MXRoute supports unlimited domains and addresses; you’re just limited by total disk space.

If the email address is important to you, it’s better to use a paid service since it’ll usually give you proper support and an SLA.

That really depends on the company. At big tech companies, it’s common for the levels and salary bands to be the same for both generalists (or full stack or whatever you want to call them) and specialists.

It also changes depending on market conditions. For example, frontend engineers used to be in higher demand than backend and full-stack.

would there be any difference if the webpage has a JS button to put something in the clipboard, or it having code running in the background that puts things into the clipboard at page load?

Clicking a button shows user intent, whereas a page load doesn’t. No user expects loading a page to overwrite their clipboard, but every user that clicks a “Copy to Clipboard” button does expect it.