Sanjiv Sathiah, 2019-05- 4 (Update: 2019-05- 4)
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Sanjiv Sathiah, 2019-05- 4 (Update: 2019-05- 4)
I have been tech-obsessed from the time my father introduced me to my first computer, an Apple ][. Since then, I have been particularly interested in all things Apple, but also enjoy exploring and experimenting with any computing platform that I can get my hands on – I am the definitive early adopter! I have always been interested in how we can use technology to shape and improve our lives, most recently using it to record, mix and master my debut record, Acuity – Nature | Nurture.
Some Firefox users started to notice that installed browser extensions were all disabled in the web browser suddenly. Extensions would display "could not be verified for use in Firefox and has been disabled" messages in the add-ons manager of the browser. Firefox would display "One or more installed add-ons cannot be verified and have been disabled" at the top as a notification next to that.
Affected extensions include LastPass, Ghostery, Download Manager (S3), Dark Mode, Honey, uBlock Origin, Greasemonkey, NoScript, and others.
Only options provided were to find a replacement and to remove the extension in question; this left affected users puzzled. Was this some kind of preemptive strike against policy violation extensions? Mozilla did announce that it would enforce policies more strictly.
The answer is no. Turns out, the issue is caused by a bug. If you read carefully, you notice that verification is the issue. A new thread on Bugzilla suggests that this has something to do with extension signing.
Firefox marked addons due signing as unsupported, but doesn't allow re-downloads from AMO → All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert.
All Firefox extensions need to be signed since Firefox 48 and Firefox ESR 52. Firefox will block the installation of extensions with invalid certificates (or none), and that is causing the issue on user systems.
Related issues have been reported: some users cannot install extensions from Mozilla's official Add-ons repository. Users get "Download failed. Please check your connection" errors when they attempt to download any extension from the official repository.
Nightly, Dev and Android users may be able to disable signing of extensions; some users reported that this resolved the issue temporarily on their end. You need to set the preference xpinstall.signatures.required to false on about:config to disable signing. You could change the system date to the previous day to resolve it temporarily as well, but that can lead to other issues.
The issue can only be resolved on Mozilla's end. The organization needs to renew the certificate or create a new one to resolve the issue. I'd expect Mozilla to do that soon as the issue is widespread and affecting lots of Firefox users.
Users should not remove affected extensions from their installations; the issue will resolve itself once Mozilla fixes it.
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Your Firefox extensions are all disabled? That's a bug!
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Some Firefox users started to notice that installed browser extensions were all disabled in the web browser suddenly.
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I think most of us can safely agree that there are few things consumers want to engage with less than ads. We certainly do not want ads that require us to actively speak to them. But the future is now, baby! And if this sounds like hell, now might be a good time to upgrade your free Spotify subscription.
The streaming platform is testing a new feature for voice-enabled ads for some subscribers, Ad Age reported Thursday. Under this new ad feature, a limited number of Spotify users who have their microphone enabled will be prompted by an ad to say a specific phrase that initiates the app to perform an action. According to TechCrunch, users will first be informed about a playlist they might be interested in and they’ll be given the option to say “play now.”
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If a user does not respond or says something other than “play now,” the ad will carry on before returning to whatever they were listening to. Both after the prompt and in the event that a user says something other than the specific phrase, a user’s microphone will be turned off, the reports said.
For now, these ads are limited to Spotify’s own playlists or podcasts, according to TechCrunch. But next up: Axe body spray. Later this month, Axe will offer its own curated playlist and you’ll have to opportunity to interrupt your vibes and jump over to listen to whatever Axe has decided is synergetic with its brand.
Of course, this also signals a chance for Spotify to slowly get us used to the idea of having to engage with an ad to perform a function. And the possibility of endless commercial breaks until you say “I heart Pringles” isn’t hard to imagine.
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A spokesperson for Spotify did not immediately return a request for comment about the feature.
If I were still a free subscriber, I might be open to this idea if it were limited exclusively to user-specific Spotify playlists—or heck, even podcasts! But if Spotify started prodding me to engage with Axe body spray ads? That’s going to be a hard “fuck no” from me, buddy.
I also think that this feature, much like Spotify’s genius idea to force feed users podcasts while they’re trying to stream music, could be jarring to anyone who listens to music while doing anything else, for example studying, or working, or exercising. Spotify has 116 million ad-supported listeners on its platform, and it’s probably fair to assume a good number of these aren’t trying to engage with brands while using the platform as ambient noise (or otherwise).
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The good news is, it sounds like folks who are served these ads have the opportunity to opt out while it’s still being tested through the “Voice-Enabled Ads” section of the Settings menu.
To be clear, Spotify is hardly the only company doing something like this. That said, voice-enabled ads are the hell experience that no one asked for. Ads are already mostly terrible. Companies don’t need any help in making them worse.
You can get the blazing fast handset in a Midnight Blue or Mocha Brown color option with a valid 12-month US warranty included and no catches or strings attached. You're obviously looking at brand-new, unused devices eligible for free nationwide shipping, as well as free 30-day returns, which you can activate on your GSM network of choice, be it AT&T, T-Mobile, or a smaller prepaid operator, with no restrictions whatsoever.
For months now, Google Maps has asked users who upload photos of food and drinks at restaurants to tag their images with the dish name. That crowdsourced information was bound to be put to good use at some point, and according to a few tipsters, there's a new Popular dishes feature in restaurants' Menu tabs that uses these images and tags to show you the most liked dishes.
Open a restaurant, check if it has a Menu tab (some don't), and the first screen should be the one for popular dishes. Large image thumbnails are used, with the numbers of pictures and reviews for each dish below. Choose any dish and you'll get a carousel of user-submitted images, a list of all reviews that mention it by name, and an edit button to fix mistakes or report a wrong dish.
Left: Popular dishes tab. Middle: Dish page. Right: Editing options.
For restaurants that already have a detailed menu uploaded to Maps, the Menu tab will display these popular dishes first, then the text menu in the following sub-tabs. Other things worth pointing out are a floating + button to upload images of dishes straight from here, and a carousel at the bottom of dish pages to quickly jump to other dishes served at the same place without going back to main tab.
Left & Middle: Popular dishes for places with existing menus. Right: Other dishes served there.
The popular dishes feature has been showing for some users for a while, but we just came across it and noticed it hasn't rolled out to everyone just yet. Despite checking the same restaurants listed above, being on the latest Maps version (v10.15.1 on APK Mirror), and a Level 7 Local Guide, I don't see these dishes. Several other users confirmed that it's not live for them yet, so as with all things Google, your mileage may vary widely.
Sanjiv Sathiah, 2019-05- 3 (Update: 2019-05- 3)
I have been tech-obsessed from the time my father introduced me to my first computer, an Apple ][. Since then, I have been particularly interested in all things Apple, but also enjoy exploring and experimenting with any computing platform that I can get my hands on – I am the definitive early adopter! I have always been interested in how we can use technology to shape and improve our lives, most recently using it to record, mix and master my debut record, Acuity – Nature | Nurture.
The unannounced Google Pixel 3A XL has been spotted at a Best Buy in Springfield, Ohio. Android Police reports that both the “Purple-ish” and “Just Black” models of the phone were on display, and that their packaging confirms previous rumors that the Pixel 3A XL will have a 6-inch display. No pricing appeared to be visible for the handsets.
The sighting is the latest in a string of leaks about Google’s unannounced mid-range handsets. Earlier this week the YouTube channel This is Tech Today posted images of the retail packaging of the non-XL Pixel 3A, which confirmed that it would have a 5.6-inch screen. The video also claimed that the 64GB model of the Pixel 3A and the Pixel 3A XL would start at $399 and $479 respectively.
With less than a week to go until Google is expected to announce the new phones during its Google I/O keynote on May 7th, the Pixel 3A is running out of places to leak from. We’ve seen photographs, promotional images, videos, and renders, and it’s been spotted on Geekbench as well as Google’s own site. We’re not quite at the point that the Pixel 3 got to last year, where the phone had leaked so thoroughly that someone recognised it in a Lyft, but we’re getting very close.