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Last time it was 2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36077360 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36077360 In that thread there are a few more

by veave 3y ago

Last time it was 2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36077360 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36077360 In that thread there are a few more examples, most of them somewhat recent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36077683 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36077683

godelski 3y ago
I have never seen these myself, being on FF for most of it's life, but I also fail to see how these "screw you over." Oh my god an ad! I better instead use a browser that has a built in keylogger and created the ad based internet! That'll show those assholes!
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gmerc 3y ago
Google: Let’s put DRM in the browser, hijack the address bar, webmanifest Omg, firefox screwed me over by showing me an ad. I see. I think no further illustration needed.
- iakov 3y ago
  Textbook whataboutism. Google is objectively evil, what that has to do with Firefox, my "user agent", showing me Disney ads?
  - programmer_dude 3y ago
    Textbook idiocy. Whataboutism is not a phallacy when the discussion is about comparing things.
    - CatWChainsaw 3y ago
      I have to ask... did you deliberately spell it "phallacy" because you mentioned 'comparing things'??
      - programmer_dude 3y ago
        No comment :)
  - mrguyorama 3y ago
    When you choose to continue using the browser from the "objectively evil" company, helping them continue to push those objectively evil goals, because "firefox showed me A ad", because for some reason that is more screwing over your users than literally fucking the open internet.... It's astounding how far people bend over backwards just to not change browsers for the good of the internet as a whole. "Yeah I could stop hanging out with a serial baby stabber, but the other guy once said my hat was funny, so that's terrible and I will stay with the baby stabber"
    - iakov 3y ago
      I choose to use Firefox, for more than a decade. It does not mean I am a happy user, and it does not mean that I can't complain about Mozilla being shittifed year after year.
Gud 3y ago
Yes, the people in charge of Mozilla have been doing dumb stuff like this, eroding our trust. Hardly screwing us over, though. They’ve been doing even worse things, for example constantly opting us in for “anonymous statistics” etc. If it one day comes out they’ve been sharing this data deanonymized with 3rd parties, then you can say you’ve been screwed over.

by veave 3y ago

godelski 3y ago

I have never seen these myself, being on FF for most of it's life, but I also fail to see how these "screw you over." Oh my god an ad! I better instead use a browser that has a built in keylogger and created the ad based internet! That'll show those assholes!

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gmerc 3y ago

Google: Let’s put DRM in the browser, hijack the address bar, webmanifest Omg, firefox screwed me over by showing me an ad. I see. I think no further illustration needed.

iakov 3y ago
Textbook whataboutism. Google is objectively evil, what that has to do with Firefox, my "user agent", showing me Disney ads?
- programmer_dude 3y ago
  Textbook idiocy. Whataboutism is not a phallacy when the discussion is about comparing things.
  - CatWChainsaw 3y ago
    I have to ask... did you deliberately spell it "phallacy" because you mentioned 'comparing things'??
    - programmer_dude 3y ago
      No comment :)
- mrguyorama 3y ago
  When you choose to continue using the browser from the "objectively evil" company, helping them continue to push those objectively evil goals, because "firefox showed me A ad", because for some reason that is more screwing over your users than literally fucking the open internet.... It's astounding how far people bend over backwards just to not change browsers for the good of the internet as a whole. "Yeah I could stop hanging out with a serial baby stabber, but the other guy once said my hat was funny, so that's terrible and I will stay with the baby stabber"
  - iakov 3y ago
    I choose to use Firefox, for more than a decade. It does not mean I am a happy user, and it does not mean that I can't complain about Mozilla being shittifed year after year.

Gud 3y ago

Yes, the people in charge of Mozilla have been doing dumb stuff like this, eroding our trust. Hardly screwing us over, though. They’ve been doing even worse things, for example constantly opting us in for “anonymous statistics” etc. If it one day comes out they’ve been sharing this data deanonymized with 3rd parties, then you can say you’ve been screwed over.