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I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by s_dev »

Sanctor wrote: post #110

I really want to switch to Firefox but cannot because it doesn't sync bookmark favicons. My bookmarks bar is filled with bookmarks without names that I can recognize by the icons. I refuse to re-visit every bookmark when I login from a new PC, which is often. This has been requested for 17 years: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428378 Every other browser sync solution has this feature. Firefox insists on…

I do this as well i.e delete the name of a bookmark using only it's favicon to identify it.

When you login to Firefox. Just right click your bookmarks and hit open all in new tabs. It will open all 500+ tabs. Leave it for a few minutes all all the favicons will be loaded.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by immibis »

segasaturn wrote: post #270
gjsman-1000 wrote: post #255

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Linus & co do not follow, or respect, the values of the FOSS zealots. He actively dislikes the GPLv3, has a good working relationship with Google on Android and ChromeOS, and has criticized attitudes in the Linux desktop community for over a decade. He famously roasted his own distribution's package maintainer for wasting their life. All hats off to him, frankly. The Linux community can be extremely delusional at tim…

All that Facebook money has gone to his head I guess. Thankfully we should still have the ability to fork the kernel if he fully loses the plot to corporate interests.

Let me copy the actually important information from the sibling comment that's about to be deleted, because this is actually important:

Linus has hated GPLv3 since at least 2006.

Linux development has been over 80% corporate funded for over a decade. FOSS contributors do not have enough talent or interest to maintain the kernel for even a few weeks. If corporate interests weren't in the kernel, the kernel would not run on modern devices, period. It would have fallen behind the times and been abandoned like countless other technologies, or replaced with a new proprietary kernel from someone else.

Linux on the desktop is not somewhat usable in spite of corporate interests. Linux on the desktop is usable today because of corporate interests.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by immibis »

basilgohar wrote: post #150
tgv wrote: post #144

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My first though: WTF? All hail Manifest v3?

Linux Foundation is made up of corporations. This should not be a surprising outcome when you think about it that way. Edit: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members

Reminds me of the Open Source Initiative. People tell me that licenses like the SSPL aren't open source because the OSI says they aren't. I tell them to look at who comprises the OSI. Nobody has yet showed me a reason why we should believe the OSI when it tells us what open source is or isn't.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by dismalaf »

HanClinto wrote: post #261
dismalaf wrote: post #215

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> using an ad blocker is the ONLY option to avoid adds. You can pay evilcorp for a subscription/premium account/whatever and they'll still try to force you to watch 10 minutes of adds for a 1 minute video. Fuck them. We own them nothing. On YouTube? No. I pay for Premium, there's no ads.

I pay for YouTube Premium. I'm thankful that it exists. I still get sponsored segments in the middle of my videos (from the content creators themselves). I haven't (yet) installed SponsorBlock -- currently, I have no plans to, but I do fast-forward to skip those commercials in the middle of the videos. I pay for Amazon Prime, and they've started showing me preroll ads on my streaming content. I also still get sponsor…

Most of the creators I watch don't have sponsored segments.

I do agree, Prime is annoying with their ads, it definitely affects how much I watch on their platform.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by gjsman-1000 »

immibis wrote: post #282
segasaturn wrote: post #270

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All that Facebook money has gone to his head I guess. Thankfully we should still have the ability to fork the kernel if he fully loses the plot to corporate interests.

Let me copy the actually important information from the sibling comment that's about to be deleted, because this is actually important: Linus has hated GPLv3 since at least 2006. Linux development has been over 80% corporate funded for over a decade. FOSS contributors do not have enough talent or interest to maintain the kernel for even a few weeks. If corporate interests weren't in the kernel, the kernel would not r…

The original comment I was replying to has an inaccurate mindset: Linux supporters generally still envision this as a community project, with community contributors, and they are so successful, that companies knock at the door politely and are lucky to get code into the kernel.

It's actually the other way around: This is a collaborative corporate project, with corporate employees contributing, but there are some random community members who can knock at the door politely and are lucky to get code into the kernel.

The community-first development model died about 2 decades ago. When the Linux Foundation talks about "community," they are talking about their corporate contributors and their communities, not us. This is also why I cringe at the excessive (not all, just excessive) hate for corporations in the online community. Without their work, rip out 80%-90% of the kernel commits every year for the last decade, and see how advanced Linux would be.

This same change is also underway at another open source project - Blender; which is now increasingly corporate funded and developed. When I see online forum posts arguing that Blender is a perfect example of how we can beat the corporations as a community, I just shake my head now.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by Workaccount2 »

jraph wrote: post #253
Workaccount2 wrote: post #236

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And rather than stop going to this evil cafe, people just go and don't pay. So as long as you make out your flavor of the month business as "greedy and evil" you can paint yourself a moral crusader by going there and taking things for free. How convenient, eh? "This coffee shop is a terrible place, therefore I will eat there for free everyday in protest!"

The network effect kinda prevents you from finding coffee at an honest place. (The content is on YouTube and nowhere else) Until this changes and one can choose to go somewhere else, I wouldn't worry too much about the terrible cafe's income, because it is one of the richest entities in the world, it already shouldn't be that rich and powerful, and if it disappeared, it would finally let one go find coffee somewhere…

YouTube is hardly the only website on the Internet. And besides that, YouTube splits ad revenue 40/60 yt/creator anyway. So I suppose those creators are all in on the scheme too?

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by Der_Einzige »

ustad wrote: post #23

Currently the main attack facing Firefox is coming from advertising companies such as YouTube. It’s crazy to think that some software engineers might actually intentionally degrade user experience on non-Google browsers or for people using adblockers. The mentality here is pretty disturbing: it’s almost like punishing users for making the choice to browse the web without ads, or without the surveillance mechanisms th…

You used LLMs to write this comment.

Re: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

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Post by 34679 »

Has slashdot started showing ads in the last 48 hours for anyone else using Firefox and ublock on Android? It was a very weird experience to see an ad on my phone for the first time in over a decade. My brain kinda froze and took a second to process what it was seeing.
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