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How strange.
I've always assumed that everyone could see the flags, but obviously not!
:dubbio:

EDIT: Have you checked this forum setting? I thought it was enabled by default, but you never know!

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26 minutes ago, Dave-H said:

I've always assumed that everyone could see the flags, but obviously not!
EDIT: Have you checked this forum setting?
I thought it was enabled by default, but you never know!

Sorry again, @Dave-H :( ; under latest Serpent 52.9.0/Vista SP2 32-bit, the "Country" section of Account Settings displays as below:

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Perhaps "View Members Flags" is only reserved for Mods now? :dubbio:

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The switch is there for me on every browser I've tried, so maybe it is a moderators' only option at present.
I think that's very odd if it is the case, and if the switch wasn't there I would expect the option to be enabled anyway.
I'm sure I used to be able to see members' country flags before I was a moderator.
Maybe it's something which has crept in with the new version of the forum software, but if so I suspect it's something that has been left switched off for general members by mistake. Until another moderator or supervisor confirms this by saying they can see the flags and have the switch option I don't know what else to say!
:)

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4 hours ago, Sampei.Nihira said:

It would be interesting to know if our browsers will update to the new standard.

This depends solely on MCP (as I don't expect roytam1 to take this up on his own ;) ), going by what is already known about them, they won't be jumping on that bandwagon very soon/if ever... :(

Personally, I'm not that worried TBH, the article you linked to says:

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JPEG XL is but one image format that is competing to become the next standard image format on the web.
Only a small number of tools and viewers support the new image format right now, and fewer websites use it. There is no rush to support the format on the user side because of that.

:)

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8 hours ago, Sampei.Nihira said:

related mozilla upstream PR: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1707590

don't know if MCP will import it or not.

 

In contrast, AVIF is still not adapted by mozilla(, yet): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1443863

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7 hours ago, Dave-H said:

Curiouser and curiouser!
I can't image why that setting would only be available for mods!
:dubbio:

xper did it. Only staff can see the flags. But, for the life of me, I cannot remember why. Sorry!  :(

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7 hours ago, dencorso said:

xper did it. Only staff can see the flags.

Hi dencorso :) ; I suppose a "High Court Appeal" ;) is out of the question then, am I right?

Best regards from Greece (wait; you, too, can see the flags :P ... ) !

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8 hours ago, dencorso said:

xper did it. Only staff can see the flags. But, for the life of me, I cannot remember why. Sorry!  :(

Thanks Den, at least that confirms it!
I've not been a moderator for very long though, and I thought I could see the flags before I became one.
Was this done when the forum software was updated some months ago?
A strange decision IMHO when I'm pretty sure that everyone had been able to see the flags for years.
Why would xper not want people to see them any more?
Perhaps I'll ask him!
:)

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I continue the discussion regarding privacy that I started in the UBO thread.
Unfortunately, some websites will try very hard to violate your privacy.
And this task of theirs will often be facilitated by using very popular and well-known browsers.
This test below shows that:

 

https://schemeflood.com/

With our browsers this task is more difficult, but possible.

 

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49 minutes ago, Sampei.Nihira said:

I continue the discussion regarding privacy that I started in the UBO thread.
Unfortunately, some websites will try very hard to violate your privacy.
And this task of theirs will often be facilitated by using very popular and well-known browsers.
This test below shows that:

 

https://schemeflood.com/

With our browsers this task is more difficult, but possible.

 

They discovered Teamviewer, even in the Tor browser...
 

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800FVNVV
This is your identifier. It was seen 14 times among 12035 tests so far.

That means it is 99.88% unique.

 

 

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