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by bad_user 2y ago
I can now use Facebook without being profiled for ads. I can also delete my account. It took longer than expected, but it happened. The GDPR has forced Facebook and others to change. People may want huge fines, but then the EU is accused of
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by bad_user 2y ago
That the GDPR is “all bark and no bite” is factually untrue. As an example of a service that was forced to change to get in line with GDPR: Facebook. For user profiling, they first tried to use their Terms of Service, then they tried claimi
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by bad_user 2y ago
Sure, but my point is that Firefox has been funded by Google since 2006, and by having it as the default search engine, Firefox has been sending suggestion queries and searches to Google. Of course, the nuance here is that this was part of
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by bad_user 2y ago
As a European citizen, why would I want my taxes to fund a browser built by a US entity and still subject to the whims of the current US administration? Unless you mean that Mozilla should move completely to Europe, sure. But the part about
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by bad_user 2y ago
> Mozilla gave up that identity when it became an ad-tech company whose business model... I hope you realize that happened in 2006. Recent developments can only improve the situation, actually, if it makes Mozilla more independent.
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by bad_user 2y ago
Brave's internal ad-blocker is custom-made and doesn't depend on manifest v2.
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by bad_user 2y ago
That makes no sense. Define "open source project". Do you think that in open source there's no ownership?
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by bad_user 2y ago
Maybe because one is a working browser whereas the other is not.
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by bad_user 2y ago
You probably block ads on YouTube to get stuff for free. I never said that you can't afford it. (I'm using the royal you here, obviously, I don't know you) People rarely pay when there isn't scarcity. Wikimedia can pull
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by bad_user 2y ago
I said I don't agree with them wasting that much money on the CEO, maybe I wasn't clear (perhaps it's due to English not being my first language).
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by bad_user 2y ago
> they've been all blockchain when that was in fashion They've never been “all blockchain”, what are you talking about?
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by bad_user 2y ago
Wikimedia does not raise $200 million per year.
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by bad_user 2y ago
YouTube is a 1st party service for Google, so you can't ad-block their tracking. And you aren't ad-blocking YouTube due to the spying, so don't be disingenuous. Yes, it really costs that much. Given Chrome's vast market
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by bad_user 2y ago
Name a project whose development costs as much as Firefox and that survives from donations. Many people want AI in their browser. And what does Firefox have to do with crypto?
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by bad_user 2y ago
I don't agree with Mozilla paying that huge CEO salary, but… Do you know Firefox's handy new offline translation feature? That's AI a well. And Firefox is the only browser that doesn't leak your web page when translating
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by bad_user 2y ago
Nobody uses Ladybird, at this point it's vaporware. And Thunderbird is still based on Firefox. The development of Firefox costs around $200 million per year. That's more than what Wikimedia can get from donations, and Wikipedia is
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by bad_user 2y ago
Which is why Mozilla are getting desperate to diversify their revenue.
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by bad_user 2y ago
The US makes startups easier due to easy access to capital from investors. OTOH, I'd be wary of starting a lifestyle business in the US due to the poor social safety net. Red tape is also a concern, but it depends on what European coun
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by bad_user 2y ago
I mean, sure, inducing a recession works for lowering prices, but it's freaking stupid and makes people poorer.
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by bad_user 2y ago
As a European citizen, I'd say, indeed, I gladly consume Canadian products. Furthermore, Canada should apply for EU or EEA membership.
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by bad_user 2y ago
Immigrants to the US are mostly from the Americas, so Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Venezuela, etc. The US also has people fleeing war, such as Ukrainians. The main difference is that they are easier to integrate. For instance, immigrants fr
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by bad_user 2y ago
> in part fueled by Brendan Eich I don't get why you needed to mention this, when the story became viral before Brendan Eich communicated it. Do you feel that people misunderstood that, in fact, Mozilla does intend to sell user da
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by bad_user 2y ago
Qwant has had its own index too, but it's smaller, probably meant to serve the French market. When they don't have coverage, they fall back to Bing, which in my case is all the time. Therefore, I hope they invest more in their own
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by bad_user 2y ago
Yes, be careful with Qwant, use Google or Bing.
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by bad_user 2y ago
One thing that bothers me is that, when smaller projects and companies get boycotted, the winners seem to always be US Big Tech companies that are far worse, and boycotts don't work against them either. For what is worth, I still use F
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by bad_user 2y ago
The kind of immigration that Europe had to deal with is very different from that of the US. If you want to copy Denmark, I'm guessing you also want their universal healthcare.
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by bad_user 2y ago
The difference is that now European countries, and other (former?) US allies are starting to see the US as a threat. With people like Trump in power, the chance of a military conflict between the EU and the US is now non-zero, so what'
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by bad_user 2y ago
US's Republicans have been so afraid of '1984' that they took it as an instructions manual.
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by bad_user 2y ago
> he had given $1000 to an anti-abortion NGO That's not what he did. He donated for California's Prop 8, which opposed same-sex marriage, in 2008. I'm personally not judging, as many US progressives have forgotten that d
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by bad_user 2y ago
> Unfortunately de-Googling meant re-Microsofting That's an understatement. Microsoft Edge is, in fact, a more privacy invasive browser than Chrome. And that was a pretty high bar. In the EU, straight from the get-go, Edge present

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