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Re: Mozilla’s plan to fix internet privacy

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Post by Hnrobert42 »

catalogia wrote: post #24
DrScientist wrote: post #15

Ex-Mozillian Brendan Eich agrees that privacy is the battle for the future http://www.brave.com The question is - do you need to re-write the internet economy as Brave are trying to to achieve it, and not just block trackers? The third element is that governments are becoming addicted to the vast trove of information gathered - will they be willing to give that up if a technical/business model solution takes off. Int…

I want no part of Brave's weird cryptoish scheme. I know the feature is opt-in, but I don't see the point in supporting an organization unable to find a source of revenue I find agreeable. Even something as simple and obnoxious as donation nagging, like Wikipedia, seems preferable to what Brave has proposed.

Why do you dislike Brave’s scheme?

Re: Mozilla’s plan to fix internet privacy

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Post by ori_b »

Causality1 wrote: post #18
nathanyukai wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, statistically the majority of people are using Chrome

Which sadly includes me these days, since it's such a pain to run multiple versions of Firefox and there are legacy extensions I can't do without for some things.

Did you miss that those extensions don't work on chrome either?

Re: Mozilla’s plan to fix internet privacy

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Post by Slashbot »

Let me know when those bafoons at Mozilla figure out how to add back the functionality, features and customisation of most of the addons that used to exist for Firefox pre Quantum copy chrome garbage direction.. like TabMixPlus for a start..

Until then there whole privacy gambit ploy to sucker in idiots can fall on deaf ears, they literately handed the web over to fucking Goorble.

Mozilla = idiot SJW company

Use Vivaldi, loads better than Firefox now.

Re: Mozilla’s plan to fix internet privacy

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Post by jeegsy »

dangus wrote: post #6
codingmess wrote: post #4

Freedom and privacy, good. Wokeness, not good. I wish they would have stuck to freedom and privacy. Now I can not wholeheartedly support them any longer. (Referring, for example, to their recent manifesto telling students they should only work for SJW approved companies).

I think being “woke” is only “not good” if you subscribe to the Fox News Cult. Thinking carefully about the ethics of the company you work for, especially those in-demand employees who largely have a choice like software engineers, is definitely important. This is not a partisan issue. Sure, you may not get your chance to own the libs, but that stuff is a bit childish, isn’t it? What does the phrase SJW actually mean…

Only the sith deal in absolutes. If you don't believe in "social justice" then you must believe in "social injustice"?

Re: Mozilla’s plan to fix internet privacy

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Post by jeltz »

XCSme wrote: post #26
throwaway8291 wrote: post #3

I'm using Firefox for years, after Chrome started to ask me for a login (at around version 40). Never looked back. One day I woke up to a chart showing browser market share of FF at around 4%, which surprised me - as I thought many people would understand the implications and directions. Maybe I'm too optimistic. Update: Loved chrome, used it for years, I also love most Chrome engineering and all the innovation they…

I personally just like Chrome because the awesome syncing between all devices and always having the best Dev Tools ready to open at any second. I know my browser usage is used for marketing purposes, but as long as it doesn't harm me in anyway I can live with that.

In my opinion Firefox's dev tools are superior for CSS while Chrome has better JS debugging and better profiling.

Re: Mozilla’s plan to fix internet privacy

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Post by gruez »

Causality1 wrote: post #18
nathanyukai wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, statistically the majority of people are using Chrome

Which sadly includes me these days, since it's such a pain to run multiple versions of Firefox and there are legacy extensions I can't do without for some things.

What are these features that are built into chrome, but only available as legacy Firefox extensions?

Re: Mozilla’s plan to fix internet privacy

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Post by Cladode »

infinity0 wrote: post #27
dangus wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think being “woke” is only “not good” if you subscribe to the Fox News Cult. Thinking carefully about the ethics of the company you work for, especially those in-demand employees who largely have a choice like software engineers, is definitely important. This is not a partisan issue. Sure, you may not get your chance to own the libs, but that stuff is a bit childish, isn’t it? What does the phrase SJW actually mean…

Failing to distinguish "woke" from a genuine desire and effectiveness to help the world, is itself not helpful to the world. I've seen plenty of people "talk the talk" but act in a way that is completely disingenuous, manipulative, harmful, and often hypocritical. Other people don't examine their words too carefully and suck up to them just because they "talk nice", leading to various degrees of cults of personality.…

   replaced Christian with
It has often been noted that many political concepts in the western world emerged out of Christianity, notably by Nietzsche and Carl Schmitt. That's probably not really directly a unique feature of Christianity but because religions themselves tend to co-evolve with successful states as narratives that help stabilise said states.
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