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It’s good for Mozilla to take a stance, and drop the pretense that you can have the cake, eat it, and have all your other cookies left over. Circumventing payw
by matt4077 8y ago
It’s good for Mozilla to take a stance, and drop the pretense that you can have the cake, eat it, and have all your other cookies left over.
Circumventing paywalls is not a crime, but it is also not victimless. The crisis for journalism is already eating at the foundations of democracy on the local level. To blithely ignore this is the triump of short-sighted egoism. And the inability of publishers to prevent you from doing it is no more justification as the old shopkeeper’s failing eyes are a license for you to steal from the produce displayed outside.
- CzechTech 8y ago> The crisis for journalism is already eating at the foundations of democracy Haha this is exactly why it was pulled, some leftist idiot like you who thinks Trump is Hitler and the MSM are the Angels themselves got butthurt that somebody dares to take more money from an already dead medium.
- Endy 8y agoIt's bad for Mozilla to take a stance that's obviously against the preferences of their users. They can't play both sides of the field - either you're for the User, or you're for the Corps. I once sincerely believed that Firefox was part of a statement that they would fight for the User. That disappeared somewhere between 4.0 and 27.0. I believed there was still some hope in Mozilla - all of it has been eroded over the years. So now, they've taken their stance. They don't want free users. They want corporate servants, the same as Microsoft, Apple, and Google.