Mozillaās slowly creeping in the surveillance with adding integrated crap like Pocket and AI driven Fake Spot. Iām really glad Librewolfās made a privacy focused fork of their browser without all that nonsense.
TLDR: Mozilla wants your data and itās opt out. If youāre on FF 128 itās already on and you will have to turn it off manually. Shame how they have fallen this low. The LEAST they could have done is show a pop up announcement when the user upgraded to 128.
Also: +1 to Librewolf. Mozilla is definitely going to try more scummy crap like this in the future. Definitely the better option over Firefox.
Looks really cool. I hope we donāt have the overreliance on one rendering engine in the future. Once one or the other comes out Iāll definitely try it out.
You joking? š I donāt want to discourage you from giving rust a try but come on. Have you ever talked to a developer that spent any real time with rust, anyone that got as far as multi threading?
Maybe Iām misunderstanding, but I just read that whole article and it sounds like a good implementation? Companies want to know how effective their ads are, and I like their approach of trying to find a way to provide this without wholesale personal data collection. They even say at the end that they donāt get the data either. It sounds like a reasonable thing to try and standardize.
Iām not commenting on implementation itself but rather on how Mozilla went about with an opt-out approach into the collection program (even if it was for testing) to a community they have cultivated with the promise of privacy.
Collecting my data is a big deal. It doesnāt matter how it is used. I should at least consent to it.
Iāve read the announcement. Sounds reasonable and sufficiently private to me. So saying āMozilla wants your dataā sounds misleading and like an overreaction to me. Also might help to mitigate the arms race in privacy protection versus tracking for ads and worse stuff.
Mozilla is definitely going to try more scummy crap like this in the future.
How do you know that?
Even if, there will still be alternatives. But right now, Firefox is the best browser with regards to privacy and security. It even passed minmum ratings by the german IT security authority, contrary to other widely used browsers.
Iām with you on the opt-out vs. opt-in part. Thatās not a nice move. Regardless of that, Firefox is still the best choice. I hope they will continue to improve.
A lot of sites? Or more like just a few? Personally, the ratio of working vs broken sites is like 100 to 1 and when a site is broken, its usually one of those shit pile SEO listicle sites or some absolute trash heap of ads. Every time Iāve disabled the protections Iāve regretted it.
A lot of the web is useless trash nowadays and Librewolf has done a good job of filtering that for me.
Can you do one of these for Windows 3.1 or 95? That would be sweet!
Honestly, I hate steam (the client) so much. I have a fair sized library of games that I never play because itās just torture to me to start that abomination of a program. Why the fuck couldnāt they give it a simple, clean, elegant, native UI that doesnāt treat my battery with wanton disrespect?
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I grew up with XP as well, and while Iām still nostalgic for it, it just feels kinda flat compared to the vista/7 aero theme. Not really boring, but not as interesting as aero imo. Still a vibe though.
You miss who you were when everything looked like this.
You were young, you were discovering the internet like a new frontier, every new app you tried or new album you found or new comedy website was like discovering a new country. You could while away hours without responsibility or care or trauma, or at least nearly as much. You were not cynical and jaded yet.
Nostalgia isnāt a longing for when things were simpler, it is a longing for when you were simpler.
Yes. I understand that and Iām well aware of what youāre describing, that is why I said I try not to let my nostalgia get the better of me.
Iām saying I enjoy this aesthetic mainly for nostalgic reasons. I am not necessarily saying this is superior to current aesthetics. I do miss this era, yes, and you are correct that is more about me than the aesthetic itself.
That doesnāt mean this isnāt beautiful or pleasant in some way, and I donāt think itās wrong to enjoy or explore older aesthetics even if itās out of nostalgia.
I realize the way my comment was worded made it seem like a comment about the era rather than the aesthetic.
Edit: contradicted myself there. Sorry, itās kinda hard to get a consistent thought out on mobile.
Click fraud is a big thing, with lots of counter measures, I donāt see how they could go past them as they are saying themselves that they have a very naive approach. To me itās useless at best, but more probably counterproductive.
I think youāre right about click fraud. Actually, I use AdNauseam primarily to disrupt non-consensual targeted advertising. Even if the impact is small, Iām obfuscating my profile as a form of protest against tracking.
How is this better as a protection against tracking? You are still making requests to trackers, this is so easy to counter, make multiple tracking requests, filter out want changes, keep whatās the same and you have some tracking data.
Theyāre still out there technically, but they get jankier every year. The new UI they releasedā¦ last year? put the nail in the coffin for a lot of the fancy ones, but there are still options out there to skin your Steam UI.
Course thereās the downside of China too. Consider the Ghost cities, built in anticipation of an influx of people that never came: Yujiapu, Yujiapu, and Meixi Lake.
Thatās an article all right! But itās from 5 years before the article I posted, and itās just detailing what China THOUGHT was going to happen.
Here it is 9 years later and it turned out they were wrong.
Itās okay for countries to make mistakes. We err on the side of not wasting money. They err on the side of preparation. They have more money to waste than we do so good for them.
What happened is that vast majority of these ghost cities have been filling up, and as a result of massive investment into housing 90% of the population in China owns their homes now. Meanwhile, US wastes billions on its constant invasions of other countries. Iraq alone cost over 3 trillion. Your regime errs on side of wasting absurd amounts of money on crimes against humanity while ignoring the needs of the people living in burgerland.
I believe itās a fantasy/for funsies mock-up of what the gaming store/launcher application Steam maybe could have looked like if it was done in a style similar to Windows 7ās styling and other computer applications and websites during that era. Looks like maybe MySpace and Windows Live Messenger may have been some inspiration
I hope that helps. I may be leaving stuff out or wording things oddly since Iām pretty brain foggy due to health issues, but no one had answered ya (that I can see) and I wanted to try to help ya out š
Thank you very much for willing to help, I hope youāre okay! š¤
P.S.: Iāve seen your other comments (forgive me if that bothers you) and I would like to say that youāre an amazing person! I like how you always treat others with respect and kindness, this world surely needs more people like you! Please donāt forget to take care of yourself and remember that youāre loved! š
inb4 ālol @ using twitter in 2024ā I just steal memes from it, and mastodon/bluesky simply arenāt up to speed yet.
Weighing options though Iāll go with Firefox and shitty twitter experience rather then Chrome and the ads everywhere experience. Not really a contest there. Just idle complaints.
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