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Re: X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled

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I, for one, don't make accounts on services with a hate speech rate as high as current Twitter. I'd consider an account an indirect endorsement.

What is wrong with respecting people's right to have opinions you don't like? Isn't that what everyone wanted?

The beef people have with Twitter after the Musk takeover is that it has objectively gotten worse at upholding free speech ideals, even as its new owner claims that doing so is one of his main reasons for taking over the social media company. Pre-takeover, the company was generally considered to be the best of the major outfits in standing up to censorious dipshit politicians [1], routinely challenging government attempts to enforce censorship on social media.

But since the takeover, there has seemed to be a rather partisan tinge to its attempts to challenge government censorship: the company has notably caved to authoritarian regimes (like Turkey) where it used to challenge it, although it does tend to remain resolute in opposing leftish censorship attempts. Furthermore, the company has gone after people for saying ugly truths about the company [2], going so far as to encourage certain right-wing governors to investigate those people for criminal actions.

The patently obvious mismatch between the free speech rhetoric and the censorious actions is the key thing here, not merely the (perceived) odiousness of the opinions on display.

[1] Do note that being censorious dipshits is a thoroughly bipartisan activity.

[2] Like, they literally admit that what was said is true in their own legal complaint, which just torpedoes everything from day one, without the respondent having to say anything!

Re: X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled

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What is wrong with respecting people's right to have opinions you don't like? Isn't that what everyone wanted?

Are you suggesting that, in respecting people’s right to have opinions GP doesn’t like, GP must make an account and, in their view, endorse those opinions? Or are you suggesting that in merely not liking or endorsing those opinions, GP is somehow denying their right ? Does this just apply to Twitter, or should GP also join every forum allowing public signup, to give fair and balanced attention to each of their respec…

Using a service that doesn't suppress some opinions you don't like is not an endorsement of those opinions. Or else you'd better figure out whether it's easier to cancel your home internet after you no longer have a phone number or the other way around so you know which one to cancel first.

Re: X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled

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It's the best feature I've found in the update!

eta: iirc my original account number was in the 100,000's. I used the platform since I was sending to 40404 and getting tweets from friends by sms until melon husk bought it. I was a big fan. It's become a pathetic shadow of itself.

Re: X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled

#66

Hey, remember that time you didn't obsess over a bunch of para-social relationships on a platform that monetizes your attention? The only thing keeping twitter relevant is the fact that you keep opening the website/app.

> para-social

parasocial*

Many don't follow people, just institutions and publications for news.

Re: X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled

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> The problem is the sites. no, the problem is that sites can _afford_ to block firefox, because their share is low enough that they can take the hit. What we need to do, as tech evangalists, is to push the marketshare of firefox higher, so that they cannot be ignored by sites, due to significant traffic. This is how the open internet can preserve both privacy and control of the computing environment. if your friends…

No, the problem is Mozilla. Management has been so bad that Firefox is hard to recommend now. Servo is a great engine but the company behind it isn't earning support and I think it's not going to last. I'll keep using Firefox forks until they don't work, but I won't support Mozilla by using their product directly anymore.

I thought Mozilla let the Servo team go.

Re: X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled

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why force a shit website to allow us to view it? X is a cess pool of miss-information, over-selling, over-hyping, and generally the worst the internet has to offer. At least 4chan wears its degenerate nature on it's sleeve.

Nobody's defending X. The point is that it doesn't matter that FF has strict privacy controls if sites can afford to just...not support FF. Its market share will dwindle to zero and privacy will be dead. FWIW it seems like the browser market is shifting away from third party cookies anyways, so I'm not sure this is a huge issue.

yep this is why cracking open ios was a mistake, especially for the android crowd who’d never be caught dead owning an iPhone anyway.

there was barely a slope to begin with, you’ve got chrome in a majority and safari in a minority and then Firefox as a rounding error. Obviously if you crush safari, google is just gonna go mask-off full-manifest-v3 and plenty of other sites would be happy to follow. it was obvious from the start, people were just happy they finally got a legislated “win” to the android/iOS debate.

“Don’t be evil” was dead for at least 10 years, and people pay lip service to acknowledging this and then go right on acting like google has their best interests at heart anyway.

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