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> Can we at least stop with the FUD please? Can we please stop with using the word FUD for things that are not? The very idea of accepting DRM as a possibility
by gbuk2013 9y ago
> Can we at least stop with the FUD please?
Can we please stop with using the word FUD for things that are not? The very idea of accepting DRM as a possibility in the browser was a slap in the face to those who believe in internet freedom.
> Like what? Pocket is fully owned by Mozilla.
Check your facts: it was added to FF 1.5 years before Mozilla bought it. It was an example of them just not giving a shit and adding it anyway.
> So far this has been 100% opt-in.
Check your facts: the Google Analytics in the extensions page that I linked is explicitly "opt-out" and even that happened only because people found out about it and (rightly) raised a stink.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14753546 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14753546
and
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697436#c14 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697436#c14
(And really, of all the analytics choices, they fucking picked Google Analytics?!)
- Spivak 9y agoApparently Mozilla has a special deal with Google regarding their use of Analytics but it really doesn't make it that much better.
- SubiculumCode 9y agoSo freedom is not having the choice to use DRM?
- gbuk2013 9y agoI don't buy that argument, sorry. Because it requires something as anti-freedom as DRM to exist in the first place.
- SubiculumCode 9y agoYou would outlaw locks for the front doors of houses too?
- gbuk2013 9y agoNo, because physical goods and 0's and 1's are not the same.
- SubiculumCode 9y agoAll 0's and 1's occupy real electrons in real space. They are not part of the ether. You are making a distinction between electronic information and the physical that is artificially derived. I think perhaps you are saying that a pattern of information should not be locked up, but instantiations of a pattern can be.
- jamienicol 9y agoDRM was already possible in browsers by using NPAPI or similar plugins. EME is no worse in that regard, and is from a technical perspective a much better solution. Pocket's integration during that time amounted to a button which sent a request to a potentially useful service. Such buttons have existed in firefox long before pocket ever existed, and you are of course welcome to no click on them.