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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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      this is quite infuriating, i had a number of mozilla/firefox people telling me that this feature wouldnā€™t work with opt-in (itā€™s bullshit though) because too few users would enable it, and neither fucker asked himself : ā€œwait, if weā€™re afraid we canā€™t convince our user base to buy-in, perhaps we shouldnā€™t develop the feature?ā€

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      Sounds like a good idea to piss off your primary user base, because at this stage I feel the only people singing Firefoxā€™s praise are privacy advocates who wonā€™t 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.)

      Itā€™s also enabled in the dev builds, by the way. I just checked.

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        (I have the feeling that this comes from the same shithead who pushed to include spicy autocomplete in Firefox.)

        it definitely reads like the same shithead, but Iā€™ve had them blocked on mastodon for some time so I canā€™t say for sure if it was for rampant LLMery or for doing the ā€œwithout advertising the modern web would die and you donā€™t want that do youā€ thing advertisers do constantly

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          Lol what an absolute tool. Thatā€™s the same shit the marketing bozos at my job say when I inform them that, no, I canā€™t auto opt-in our customers into whatever stupid Facebook ad campaign theyā€™re pushing this week because itā€™s literally against the GDPR and our privacy laws.

          But I guess thatā€™s the logical next step if your whole business model depends on lazy deceiving 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.

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          and because it feels like itā€™s worth screaming this into the void in case thereā€™s any marketing assholes reading: fuck yes Iā€™m here to kill the modern web

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        I donā€™t really know if any chromium-based options are a real solution - thereā€™s so much code in there that a lot of times wonā€™t 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 -_-

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          Ladybird isnā€™t going anywhere. The web standards move too fast and theyā€™re not going to be able to catch up. I wish it was another way, but thereā€™s no way a couple of million $ is going to move the needle here when (probably) tens of billions have been poured into chromium/FF.

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              oof. Something tells me heā€™s a good guy and just knee-jerked that response without thinking about it. But then I realize it doesnā€™t matter because the kind of community you create doesnā€™t depend on who you are deep down but what you say publicly.

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        Update - Ended up jumping ship to Librewolf, since I just didnā€™t 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 ā€œfuck it, Iā€™m sticking with Libreā€.