cley_faye

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cley_faye ,

This is not a subreddit, and this is the original article's title.

cley_faye ,

Firefox has always had our backs

It's been going in a less friendly direction for a while. Embedding of mandatory useless extensions, aggressive advertising, deals to display more and more content to more users, disregard for user settings on multiple updates, opt-out telemetry, and now telling you that you're using it wrong.

Sure, you can navigate through various settings to disable most of these, and check back on updates for settings that toggles back, or are simply renamed and mysteriously got back to their default, intrusive value. But we should not have to do that.

And that's not even touching the issue with the Mozilla Corporation itself.

Firefox is the alternative browser, but it certainly isn't there to "have your back".

cley_faye ,

Firefox has a tendency to embed optional extensions as impossible to uninstall core features these days, so it would not change much.

cley_faye ,

Humans loves to see patterns in everything.

cley_faye ,

Russia on its quest to find something it can fight and win against.

cley_faye ,

They're not very good at it, are they? :D

cley_faye ,

A miess Gooby an Dolan

cley_faye ,

Sometimes I go back to z0r.de. Simpler time, simpler laugh.

cley_faye ,

I'd say for two reasons. First, laws are written by a bunch of old people (at least in the head) that love the stuff. Second, full prohibition does not work anyway.

cley_faye ,

They initied the relationship like a month ago without any safety check. Is that also a good reason?

cley_faye ,

I can't wait to see the innovative and creative ways Apple will find to create new forms of nightmare for consumers following that.

cley_faye ,

We need more conspiracy about hidden cute things.

cley_faye ,

I'm sure the evil intolerant mechanic guy wanted to remove them for some fake, made-up reasons like "you're gonna die if you ride with these".

cley_faye ,

I'm not sure what you mean, but they do ship devices. Whether or not they are interesting is another topic.

cley_faye ,

And when they detect it in a non-allowed region, they'll brick your phone for your own safety.

cley_faye ,

Following the last few years the list of topics they were concerned with is growing very slim.

cley_faye ,

they could already do so in user mode

So, you read "we already have these surveillance capability" and you're fine with it? Interesting.

The whole point of "user mode" is that it is possible to separate things. Even on Windows, assuming proper handling of your storage and settings, one account can be barred from accessing another account data it should not have access to. Granted, most people won't care, but you can do it, and run separate windows accounts for games and personal stuff for example. You can even do it without constantly switching between them.

Not only kernel mode "anticheat" will allow snooping on the current account, but on others too, that's the key difference here. As a user/customer, it removes the possibility of having private stuff on your computer at all.

That's kind of a big deal.

cley_faye ,

Don't most virus just becomes useless on most surfaces after so long anyway?

cley_faye ,

I'm curious how they will tank their worth by then, as is tradition.

cley_faye ,

We could just have that. A contest where you bring your cat, they get to play around for an afternoon, and the only outcome from the judge is "yep, that's a cat".

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