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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Diplomacy dies on live TV as Trump and Vance gang up to bully Ukraine leader⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  somehow this was required to switch me from “buy canadian” to “sell american” and i am ashamed it took so long

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sokath, his browser’s eyes wide open⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Exhibit A: arstechnica.com/…/firefox-deletes-promise-to-neve…

  Exhibit B: www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/

  When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

  I don’t agree to this as written; and I am not inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt given Exhibit A. I think an argument could be made that selling my data to advertisers would help me “experience” and “interact” with online content. Perhaps it would be a difficult argument, perhaps not. I think skepticism is warranted.

  Firefox has struggled to find a profitable business model outside of Google paying to be the default search engine, and it looks like these changes are a pivot to address this. I don’t think it will be good for users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sokath, his browser’s eyes wide open⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen this sentiment, but I don’t think it’s credible. I don’t think we should normalize legalize that explicitly enables bullshit; it’s not like it couldn’t be written any other way. It’s written in English, though it has legal intent, and we have words and phrases to clarify such things.