Tag: mozilla

Mozilla unveils YouTube recommendation horror stories

Somehow, a fun read. Still problematic, and somewhat scary, at the scale YouTube relies on recommendations.

YouTube Horror Stories

Mozilla gathered 28 user-submitted stories, detailing incidents where YouTube’s recommendation served videos featuring racism, conspiracies, and violence.

Source: Mozilla unveils 28 horror stories about YouTube’s recommendation algorithm

October 15, 2019
HTML5 Geolocation
So einfach:
```
if (navigator.geolocation) {
  navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(callback_success, callback_error);
} else {
  alert('not supported');
}
```
Firefox unterstützt das Feature seit Version 3.5. Dokumentiert im Mozilla Wiki: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Using_geolocation
August 9, 2011