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Also, speaking as someone who's entered his 50th year, shitposting in alternative venues is not really a sign of maturity.

Google doesn't have the leverage to get it into your OS against your wishes. They can't even make me have their apps (search, assistant) on their Android.

It says fucking technology bro, not streamer drama bro, you're getting blocked for this bro

I agree. We are in the honeymoon phase about to face varying degrees of eternal september and besides someone still pays for bandwidth and domains and who says it won't be enshittified once it gains traction. This is clearly not a new paradigm.

I agree with you on everything, other than

I legitimately want to scream sometimes as I feel the continual death of local computing and actual software

...it seems to me that it's never been better, there's free software for everything, osm data for mapping, it's just that our expectations have shifted.

Fuck you, Mozilla. I'll turn off any option you expose and run away to Librewolf or Fennec as soon as you cross the line. And the line is ublock origin, make no mistake about that. Here's a tip: Raymond Hill is the most valuable asset Mozilla has and, here's the kicker -- YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE HIM.

Imma block you for this, it's not personal tho

You're right, it was rude. Sorry.

User JohnFen on ycombinator's hacker news said it nicely and I'm lazy, so:

PPA means that my browser is doing the spying instead of a third party directly. That's certainly a privacy improvement, but I don't consider it sufficient.

"Sufficiently private" is a subjective call. I don't want to be spied on. Whether or not there are technological "privacy preserving" features baked into it doesn't alter that fundamental fact.

All that said, this isn't a bad enough move to get me to stop using Firefox, as long as I can keep it disabled. It does mean that I have to view Firefox with suspicion, though. I can't consider the browser to be my "user agent" anymore.

Has Mozilla done sometime to deserve this skepticism?

Yes, their "privacy friendly ad measurement" that's opt out is a faux pas that I just can't forgive. I used to donate to the fuckers.