https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/Mozilla_introduces_TOS_to_Firefox
https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/Mozilla
https://librewolf.net/
00:00:00 - tl;dr solution use librewolf
00:00:52 - my tl;dr thoughts
00:01:08 - what mozilla did
00:02:28 - mozilla crashed archive.org…
00:03:03 - Louis gets trolled by a monster
00:03:56 - firefox’ removes statement on not selling personal data.
00:04:40 - terms were changed without explicitly alerting users
00:05:08 - mozilla did this at the WORST POSSIBLE TIME
00:07:05 - the worst communication policy
00:07:14 - California consumer protection act
00:08:03 - The suspicious part mozilla put in
00:08:26 - What is “selling data” ?
00:08:54 - Existing business practices exist in grey areas to CCPA
00:12:46 - Just use librewolf to avoid all this…
00:16:27 - Privacy policy is still fairly strong
00:17:20 - How money for nothing destroys people & companies
And just backwards comparability. Web developers aren’t going to fix their old site for your new browser, so you’d need to use the ancient convoluted code base to access them.
Unless you’re okay with only using the big new websites. Is it most people only use 4 websites regularly?
Weird take. Web browsers are document display systems that got a bunch built on top of them. Old websites are just documents. Web browsers are meant to render them. New websites are a single html entry point that hands all website construction to JavaScript which then creates a fake document in memory for the web browser to render.
Which one is the convoluted, hard to implement and support one?
Example: NYTimes website is literally a giant document. It could be pure html and lose nothing by being rendered on the server side…except capitalism. So it can’t be a document because the NYTimes needs to extract a reliable and consistent money stream from people, which means it needs to be enforced (according to them) and thus JavaScript.
I have a feeling that the “ancient convoluted code base” that exists for backwards compatibility isn’t convoluted or hard to maintain at all; rather the new features are, because they include everything and the kitchen sink, as necessary for the big new websites.
Plus it’s only backwards compatibility due to the feature creep of modern days. Otherwise it would be simply the support of current features.