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You can toggle a compile option to allow unsigned addons. I've mentioned this repeatedly and I'm unsure how you didn't notice that.
Then you don't get security updates. That's forcing users to make uncomfortable tradeoffs.
It’s good for Mozilla to take a stance, and drop the pretense that you can have the cake, eat it, and have all your other cookies left over. Circumventing paywalls is not a crime, but it is also not victimless. The crisis for journalism is already eating at the foundations of democracy on the local level. To blithely ignore this is the triump of short-sighted egoism. And the inability of publishers to prevent you fro…
So now, they've taken their stance. They don't want free users. They want corporate servants, the same as Microsoft, Apple, and Google.
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You can toggle a compile option to allow unsigned addons. I've mentioned this repeatedly and I'm unsure how you didn't notice that.
And I've explained that you can't expect the average newbie coder to navigate the recompilation process; I'm unsure why you blithely dismiss people who aren't as capable as you.
2. You have the set of people who can compile the code from source and who want to get outside of the wall.
3. You have the set of people who want to get out of the wall but don’t have the technical expertise to know the dangers of doing so.
4. You have people who have the technical expertise to know the dangers but not the technical expertise to compile code.
I think people in group 4 should learn how to be in group 2, because we have almost four decades worth of evidence to know how badly people in group 3 can do.
Edit: changed group 2 to group 3 in the last sentence.
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The economics and game theory of this suggests that newspapers should be forced to cooperate with each other. Cartelize on-line journalism. Make the 4th estate official. Create a pseudo-governmental entity like the US post office, Fannie Mae, or the Fed. If you have an Internet connection, you have the option, through your ISP, to pay $X towards journalism on the web. Your ISP will then cryptographically vouch for an…
That sounds like you could just paraphrase it as "Spotify for newspapers".
Can anyone recommend an add-on for automatically hiding/dismissing such popups?
I don't want to subscribe, I also don't want to see ads or be tracked. I wish there was a universal micropayments way of paying for what I read.
* includes crippled without JS, ads, paywalls, poor accessibility, etc.
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And I've explained that you can't expect the average newbie coder to navigate the recompilation process; I'm unsure why you blithely dismiss people who aren't as capable as you.
1. So you have the set of people who would be much better off in a “walled garden”, in my experience that is almost everyone. 2. You have the set of people who can compile the code from source and who want to get outside of the wall. 3. You have the set of people who want to get out of the wall but don’t have the technical expertise to know the dangers of doing so. 4. You have people who have the technical expertise…
And I don’t think expecting the user to personally recompile for every update is reasonable, especially if you claim to let users gain control of their machines again.
After reading all these comments, perhaps its time to branch Firefox to something else? This situation feels like the old Mozilla vs Firefox issue that happened a decade and a half ago. Perhaps the fact that the Mozilla Foundation is treating their browser like an Apple device is the final impetus to move elsewhere?