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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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    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