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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
so Firefox now has terms of use with this text in them:
this is bad. it feels like the driving force behind this are the legal requirements behind Mozillaās AI features that nobody asked for, but functionally these terms give Mozilla the rights to everything you do in Firefox effectively without limitation (because legally, the justification they give could apply to anything you do in your browser)
I havenāt taken the rebranded forks of Firefox very seriously before, but they might be worth taking a close look at now, since apparently these terms of use only apply to the use of mainline Firefox itself and not any of the rebrands
Sigh. Not long ago I switched from Vivaldi back to Firefox because it has better privacy-related add-ons. Since a while ago, on one machine as a test, Iāve been using LibreWolf, after I went down the rabbit hole of āhow do I configure Firefox for privacy, including that it doesnāt send stuff to Mozillaā and was appalled how difficult that is. Now with this latest bullshit from Mozillaā¦ guess Iāll switch everything over to LibreWolf now, or go back to Vivaldiā¦
Really hope theyāll leave Thunderbird alone with such crapā¦
I often wish I could just give up on web browsers entirely, but unfortunately thatās not practical.
I hate how much firefox has been growing to this point of being the best, by a smaller and smaller margin, of a fucking shit bunch
Yeahā¦that could be a real deal breaker. Doesnāt this give them the right to MITM all traffic coming through the browser?
legally, it absolutely does, and it gets even worse when you dig deeper. Mozilla is really going all in on being a bunch of marketing creeps.