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The chuds told me Mozilla was woke though?! Are you saying they’re just scummy?!
Pack it up boyz, goin’ back to books now. The internet is a fuck and everything will be an ad. uBlock Origin in all of its zeal and strength may not be enough to protect us from the endless and ceaseless onslaught that will be the internet to come.
Hear me out… what if everything you say and do, whether you consent to it or not, put on The Cloud and then regurgitated back to you as a quirky “AI” podcast?
The cloud was a mistake. I still think truly dystopian that the new Windows OS has you save things to the “OneDrive” by default rather than your actual physical harddrive. That type of shit is the realest consent manufacturing, structure superstructure, 1984, power is whatever that has the means to deem something normal-ass shit ever.
Pack it up boyz, goin’ back to books now. The internet is a fuck and everything will be an ad. uBlock Origin in all of its zeal and strength may not be enough to protects from the endless and ceaseless onslaught that will be the internet to come.
2035 - E-readers force you to watch an unskippable ad for 30 seconds between chapters. All physical books are banned.
[451]They wouldn’t be banned, but instead they’d be like $100 and sold as these premium, artisanally-produced things to the few who can afford them.
Thus we return to the days of rote memorization and oral storytellers
Arguably better than even books. It forces people to be social and have good memory.
This retelling of the Odyssey is brought to you by HIMS.
“Thanks to nordvpn for sponsoring this story, go to nordvpn and use promo code ‘you will never escape’ for 3% off”
Honestly, that’s where we’re headed. I don’t know if I’m going to be interested in scrolling through websites plastered by all the ads that are going to poke through the Manifest V3 ad controls.
WHAT’S DONE IS DONE, IT FEELS SO BAD; WHAT ONCE WAS CONTENT NOW IS AD
god damn how they are making creeps like RMS and ESR almost look like good guys in comparison
We really don’t need the modern web.
Neat of them to remove the onereason I use Firefox.
Will try out librewolf or, sadly, go back to chromium forks.
I’m just cracking up at all the people who were OMG HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY USE CHROME WHEN FIREFOX EXISTS THEY WILL NEVER DO ANYTHING UNETHICAL as if basically every company won’t eventually sell all your data anyway. I can appreciate trying to use the Internet while keeping your personal data safe but it’s also a completely unrealistic pipe dream. You can do all the open source homegrown browsers and websites with no script and ad block on a homegrown OS and you’re still going to be tracked. Your ISP knows what you’re doing, or your VPN does, and it’s a dream to think they won’t or aren’t using your data for something nefarious. Your phone certainly is. Your bank is. Your social media is. Your deviantart or Etsy account is. You name it someone somewhere somehow is tracking you in ways you aren’t even considering.
If you don’t want to be tracked don’t use the Internet. It’s just so ridiculous when folks who live under the immense yoke of capitalism pretend like you can magically will yourself out of it by making a personal choice like using a different browser.
I’m gonna get flamed to hell by this post but I really don’t care because you know I’m right. You aren’t protecting your identity from capitalist exploitation by using Linux or an open source browser. There are certainly plenty of other reasons to do so but that ain’t it.
With internet use becoming more and more mandatory in modern society, what choice do we have? Obviously communist revolution is the long term solution, but I don’t know what we can do besides take steps to mitigate the worst effects in the meantime.
You kind of don’t have much choice, that’s kind of my point. It’s better to focus energy on things that can be changed
:(
I guess it’s time to move to another browser very soon.
there are no other browsers. there are forks of firefox yeah but they ultimately rely on upstream code and if this causes people to flee from firefox mozilla will collapse*. there’s a couple of independent browsers that are progressing but they are still in very early stages of development and I’m sure it will be many years before either of them is ready for mainstream use
edit: *if google is forced to stop paying them as part of the anti-trust lawsuit
Does China maintain one?
No(?) but I had a quick search and they have a chromium based browser called Twinkstar, so there’s that.
Twinkstar
According to Natopedia, Opera Browser is Chinese owned now.
“As of the end of 2023, Opera Software was 72.4% owned by Kunlun, a Chinese public company, making it a subsidiary of that company. Opera CEO James Yahui Zhou is a controlling shareholder in Kunlun.”
~ Opera (web browser) - WikipediaI think it’s Chromium based, just like the Russian Yandex Browser
I think it’s Chromium based
It is. I was (mistakenly) referring to the question of Chinese browsers and saw the R*ddit peanut gallery
about Opera being owned by the “SeeSeePee” and looked it up.
i dont think so i assume at best they maintain their own forks of firefox or chrome. I’m certainly not an expert on their tech though so i suppose it’s always possible they do
@[email protected] you might know is there an indigenous browser engine in china?
sorry, theyre all chrome forks
yeah that’s what i figured lmao
yep, we’re down to two whole browser engines. they’ve made the web so mind-bogglingly complex, it’s prohibitively expensive to write and maintain one.
i dont think there’s corporate profit in it either, not with google owning the space. so basically, we’re only going to get a better browser if china builds it :D
maybe we’ll get lucky and mozilla devs will feel a sense of camraderie and will start heavily contributing to the independent engines but I think that is very unlikely though lol
eh…
I guess we’ve got to hope that the LadyBird project succeeds and we get a usable browser sometime before 2030 https://ladybird.org/
I really do hope ladybird can do something substantial, but even the most optimistic outcome is maybe half a decade away. I really do hope the techno wizards of the net do something about meaningful alternative browsers and do it soon
This is so depressing…
yeah… I assume this is them signaling their plans for if they lose that google default search engine money (which is likely I guess?)
FUUUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
Everything on the Internet has to choose between forcing users to watch shitty ads, or selling white labeled shit from alibaba 😮💨
Shitty video ads where some “personality” pretends to be really excited about some white labeled shit from alibaba
Welp,
This is good for GNOME Web
Firefox has long been going this way. I started exploring alternatives some years back, when Firefox started serving me ads on desktop, tracking me for marketing purposes on mobile, and talking about the “importance of collaboration with the private sector”. This is really just a natural progression from there.
It’s still the best browser (rock the LibreWolf branch), but it’s, ever more, just the best of a bad bunch.
fuck mozilla.
ill be using a fork until an alternative comes around.
did i mention fuck mozilla?
