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Firefox removed Yandex search option

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Post by mlindner »

thbw wrote: post #206
zmmmmm wrote: post #175

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I think there are a lot of moral compromises, contradictions, and hypocrisy as you outline. However, the alternative to throwing everything non-violent at Russia, is actual military intervention. Essentially, very high risk of real WW3. The Iraq invasion was a huge mistake. Russia's invading Ukraine is a huge mistake. Generally, war is a huge mistake. If there is anything non-violent left to try, I can't blame anybod…

> Generally, war is a huge mistake. 100% agree with you! Now our politicians made this mess, we shouldn't make it even messier by making people suffer

The people who are suffering are the Ukrainians so it's just thing to apply as much non-lethal suffering back on to the country causing it as is possible. Every little bit helps.

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Post by vaidhy »

klausjensen wrote: post #96
BirAdam wrote: post #38

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An invasion of Russia would risk the destruction of the entire globe by nuclear weaponry. Ousting Putin and destabilizing Russia would increase the risk of nuclear weaponry making its way to more violent regimes. I do not think either of those is particularly wise.

More violent regimes than Russia?? I am not sure they exist right now. Nobody else is threatening nuclear war, while invading a peaceful neighbouring country, slaughtering civilians.

Oh!! no.. We will only invade far-off countries who cannot retaliate. Who wants to invade a neighbour, esp. if the refugees come running into our country?? We want our war games played without any consequence to us.

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Post by MarkLowenstein »

nodesocket wrote: post #209

Doesn’t anybody else see how the massive fist waving censorship of Russian businesses (which by the way may not endorse the war in Ukraine) is hypocritical to the entire point of the internet and free speech? I’ve been saying it, and I’ll repeat it again. Since when did liberals lose the ideology of free thinking and speech and go on a quest of cancel everything that may not fit squarely and neatly in their world. It…

Very few people understand why free speech/assembly is valuable anymore. That's why it is going extinct faster than the California condor.

The intelligence of the people is the security of the nation. --Daniel Webster

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Post by AmVess »

nodesocket wrote: post #209

Doesn’t anybody else see how the massive fist waving censorship of Russian businesses (which by the way may not endorse the war in Ukraine) is hypocritical to the entire point of the internet and free speech? I’ve been saying it, and I’ll repeat it again. Since when did liberals lose the ideology of free thinking and speech and go on a quest of cancel everything that may not fit squarely and neatly in their world. It…

Liberals never embraced free thought and free speech. Now, they are actively censoring anything, anyone, or whatever they don't like. I don't need to be told what to think by a group of people unable to think at all.

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Post by nodesocket »

MarkLowenstein wrote: post #213
nodesocket wrote: post #209

Doesn’t anybody else see how the massive fist waving censorship of Russian businesses (which by the way may not endorse the war in Ukraine) is hypocritical to the entire point of the internet and free speech? I’ve been saying it, and I’ll repeat it again. Since when did liberals lose the ideology of free thinking and speech and go on a quest of cancel everything that may not fit squarely and neatly in their world. It…

Very few people understand why free speech/assembly is valuable anymore. That's why it is going extinct faster than the California condor. The intelligence of the people is the security of the nation. --Daniel Webster

While I appreciated the comparison (lol’d), turns out that California condors are on the rise and nearly 25x (estimate) as many now then at the lowest point.

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Post by BHSPitMonkey »

fortnum wrote: post #134
stonewareslord wrote: post #127

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Did it really cross a red line for you? I feel like Firefox is judged much more harshly than Chrome and it's unfair. Mozilla the company has made some terrible decisions that I strongly disagree with (update page featuring a movie ad, pocket integration, removing a search engine from the defaults, nerfing android addons for no reason) But compared to every other browser, I don't understand how people think it's even…

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Why do you care what your comment's score is? I (and the person who replied to you, and others) can still see the thread just fine.

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Post by JohnWhigham »

fortnum wrote: post #100

Have been a strong(!) advocate for Firefox for years. Now it is time to switch. Not sure where to yet, Chrome is not any better, Palemoon is not exactly well supported. Maybe Brave, Vivaldi, or Opera, though they are all Chrome-based as well. Difficult decision and not very happy about it, as I do think we need more than just one browser engine, but I can't support Mozilla any more.

Your only options are Webkit-based browsers or FF forks that are frequently behind and will probably croak sometime in the future.

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Post by ipaddr »

clucas wrote: post #128
ipaddr wrote: post #113

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Least? Least would be fundraising in Hollywood not selling out default preferences to the highest bidder. Almost all browsers are free. All major and minor ones are free.

I suspect that if Firefox got most of its funding from Hollywood, it would be even more susceptible to the politics-du-jour. Why do you think high-profile fundraising would make Firefox more independent?

More user friendly browser without sponsored search engine defaults. More Mozilla fluff projects don't have to cross my life path.

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Post by MarkLowenstein »

nodesocket wrote: post #216
MarkLowenstein wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very few people understand why free speech/assembly is valuable anymore. That's why it is going extinct faster than the California condor. The intelligence of the people is the security of the nation. --Daniel Webster

While I appreciated the comparison (lol’d), turns out that California condors are on the rise and nearly 25x (estimate) as many now then at the lowest point.

They were saved only by an emergency captive-breeding program. I'm hoping liberalism doesn't require the same intervention!
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