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by mimasama 1y ago
And it's not just the WebKit monopoly in iOS, but also being slow on adopting new features pushed by Google. Often even being slower than Mozilla funnily enough. I don't care about what Apple's intentions could be for being a
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by mimasama 1y ago
I tried the link preview feature on a link to the English Wikipedia article about Touhou Project, and the LLM's key points are just hilariously bad. For some reason it's focusing too much on the PS4 and Nintendo Switch (which the
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by mimasama 2y ago
"Bot attack protection" mode is also opt-in and many sysadmins just enable it immediately after setting up their website with CF and forget about it (because Cloudflare's marketing suggests it), leading to legitimate browsers
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by mimasama 2y ago
"Tracking" is pretty vague and trying to stop it is just unenforceable, unlike "selling personal information" which is very clear and what GPC and the CCPA and GDPR cover. I often criticize Mozilla but they're corre
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by mimasama 2y ago
By default the browser checks for available updates, whether for the browser or the add-ons (in the latter case, it's most probable that at least one installed add-on is hosted in the Pale Moon add-ons site). There's also the sync
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Cloudflare-Pale Moon dialogue stalled by overly broad NDA & secrecy of broken JS(forum.palemoon.org)
8 points by mimasama 2y ago|3 comments
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by mimasama 2y ago
Despite a long working relationship between Pale Moon and Cloudflare in the past, the latter refuses to disclose to the browser developers the 2 particular JavaScript functions and some CSP assumptions required by CF's browser check.
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by mimasama 2y ago
> Yes browsers share your data, it's a browser... That's not the problem people have with Firefox. One of the issues right now is that there are people who have intentionally opted-in to sharing "technical data" to Mo
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by mimasama 2y ago
It's not the exact same revenue model. Floorp doesn't use tracking whatsoever for sponsored ads in the home page. And donations to Floorp directly goes to development, unlike in Mozilla.
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by mimasama 2y ago
I think the issue is that the donations Mozilla receive don't go to Firefox's development. This is not the case with Floorp, Ladybird and Pale Moon where donations and sponsorship money (PM used to accept sponsors but they don&#x2
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by mimasama 2y ago
Besides, it will just end up being an xkcd 927, lol.
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by mimasama 2y ago
Yeah "donations" is not the right word, it's more like "sponsorship"... It does work though, I haven't heard of CubeSoft before I used Floorp and I have one of its PDF tools installed now. This is how advertisi
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Tranvia: The Mass Transit System in Metro Manila: From Tranvia to MRT, 1879-2014(riles.upd.edu.ph)
3 points by mimasama 2y ago|1 comments
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by mimasama 2y ago
A Filipino documentary about the history of rail in the Philippines' capital region.
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Mozilla Likely Been Sharing Aggregated Firefox Data with Advertisers Since 2017(quippd.com)
10 points by mimasama 2y ago|2 comments
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by mimasama 2y ago
What if the Firefox account's password got compromised and the attacker doesn't have access to any of the user's devices? The previous sync (Sync 1.1 aka Weave) used to protect against this scenario by not allowing any synced
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by mimasama 2y ago
> backend services Except when you actually read the ToU the controversial, unnecessary license doesn't even talk about Mozilla's services at all. "It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the p
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by mimasama 2y ago
The blog was written by product management, and most likely legal just generally told them that they got their justification from the CCPA's definition of sale, and the PR/marketing just searched for it and gave it to the blog pos
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by mimasama 2y ago
For people reading this thread, read my reply to pretty much the same comment but in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43276624 TLDR: The "OR" was a drafting error that Mozilla erroneously quote
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by mimasama 2y ago
So I've read the CCPA again, and I've realized that Mozilla may have made an error in quoting the relevant part of the law in their blog. This part they quoted: > As an example, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) define
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The Mozilla Firefox New Terms of Use Disaster: What Happened?(quippd.com)
3 points by mimasama 2y ago|0 comments
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by mimasama 2y ago
Well, I'm addressing the "real issue" part of your comment. Whether people switch over it is their choice (I've already switched to another browser as my primary years ago, and it's not Gecko, Blink, or WebKit). But
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by mimasama 2y ago
Quoting from Mozilla's blog: > The reason we’ve stepped away from making blanket claims that “We never sell your data” is because, in some places, the LEGAL definition of “sale of data” is broad and evolving. As an example, the Cali
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by mimasama 2y ago
The issue is that Mozilla Corp has a license over what private videos people upload to their Nextcloud for example, which doesn't make sense because it's not Mozilla themselves processing your input but the locally installed copy
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by mimasama 2y ago
See my reply to the other comment. They still have permission, and it doesn't matter how limited they try to scope it. It should be none because they have no business having a license over my own content I upload to non-Mozilla website
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by mimasama 2y ago
"for the purpose of doing as you request" is still permission for using my own content, no matter how limited the scope they want to make it look like. It's not Mozilla Corp itself that is processing my inputs behind the scen
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CSSQL: "Esoteric" "Programming" "Language" Compiler for Converting SQL to CSS(github.com)
1 points by mimasama 2y ago|0 comments
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by mimasama 2y ago
> including that some things you command Firefox to do involves using your data. Mozilla has never used the data you upload/send via Firefox to non-Mozilla websites (as it should be), and they shouldn't have that permission jus
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by mimasama 2y ago
In Windows there's an optional updater service you can install at least. But I think the reason for this is that some people want to make 100% sure the browser doesn't make any connections on its own, even if it's simply for
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Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers(theregister.com)
8 points by mimasama 2y ago|1 comments

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