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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
Go check your privacy settings in Firefox - theyāve switched on sending data to advertisers by default as of Firefox 128. Even Google sent this setting out default off, probably having spoken to an actual lawyer who mentioned the GDPR.
this is quite infuriating, i had a number of mozilla/firefox people telling me that this feature wouldnāt work with opt-in (itās bullshit though) because too few users would enable it, and neither fucker asked himself : āwait, if weāre afraid we canāt convince our user base to buy-in, perhaps we shouldnāt develop the feature?ā
Sounds like a good idea to piss off your primary user base, because at this stage I feel the only people singing Firefoxās praise are privacy advocates who wonāt touch Chrome & friends with a ten-foot pole.
(I have the feeling that this comes from the same shithead who pushed to include spicy autocomplete in Firefox.)
Itās also enabled in the dev builds, by the way. I just checked.
it definitely reads like the same shithead, but Iāve had them blocked on mastodon for some time so I canāt say for sure if it was for rampant LLMery or for doing the āwithout advertising the modern web would die and you donāt want that do youā thing advertisers do constantly
Lol what an absolute tool. Thatās the same shit the marketing bozos at my job say when I inform them that, no, I canāt auto opt-in our customers into whatever stupid Facebook ad campaign theyāre pushing this week because itās literally against the GDPR and our privacy laws.
But I guess thatās the logical next step if your whole business model depends on
lazydeceiving people into clicking the button with the flashiest color in the cookie popup without reading the label.P.S. the modern web can die in a fucking fire.
this is not peopleās laziness; itās that the practice is deceptive. donāt reinforce the business narrative.
Fair point, youāre right.
and because it feels like itās worth screaming this into the void in case thereās any marketing assholes reading: fuck yes Iām here to kill the modern web
Well, I needed an excuse to use Supermium - no better excuse than this.
I donāt really know if any chromium-based options are a real solution - thereās so much code in there that a lot of times wonāt get caught (cf. brave etc for this very thing), and goog is actively working to push their own agenda and they have a lot more dev-hours than anyone else to churn shit out
ladybird and servo seem like the most promising alternative paths right now, and ladybird less so because chuds -_-
Ladybird isnāt going anywhere. The web standards move too fast and theyāre not going to be able to catch up. I wish it was another way, but thereās no way a couple of million $ is going to move the needle here when (probably) tens of billions have been poured into chromium/FF.
also it looks likely to have other possible problems
oof. Something tells me heās a good guy and just knee-jerked that response without thinking about it. But then I realize it doesnāt matter because the kind of community you create doesnāt depend on who you are deep down but what you say publicly.
Update - Ended up jumping ship to Librewolf, since I just didnāt like the feel of Chromium.
I was contemplating going back to Firefox, but then I accidentally wiped my entire profile whilst trying to transfer over my browser history and went āfuck it, Iām sticking with Libreā.
The Firefox CTO put out a message about this on Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1e43w7v/a_word_about_private_attribution_in_firefox/