No, if you have any amount of money. Large or small.

Havingess money, if anything, presses you to kill projects more.

iPhone Pro Max screen area: 115.6cm²

iPad Air 11" screen area: 357.6cm²

iPad Air 13" screen area: 519.3cm²

An iPad has between 3 and 4.5 times the screen space than the largest iPhone.

Ok. But that is just you personally, and the internet carers to far more than just you.

The media I consume is mostly youtube

Which is ad-based, even if you and I likely use ublock.

I won’t miss anything that ran on ads

You won’t miss any YouTube content? Really? There’s not a single YouTube channel you like? You won’t miss hundreds of news websites? Game mod websites? Sites with Old game archives? Etc etc.

Ok whatever, let’s assume that’s right. It still doesn’t change anything. You feeling that way doesn’t mean ads will no longer exist.

Ads will exist regardless of your feelings on the matter, because so much of the internet is reliant on it. With that in mind, surely you’d rather ads not be the privacy nightmare they are right now, no?

I feel like people are shitting on a real improvement to the way things currently are in order to fawn over a completely unrealistic change. In other words, letting perfect be the enemy of good.

Committing resources to projects then keeping them/killing them depending on how they go really isn’t abnormal or a poor business practice, no matter how much you try to make it sound like one.

That’s how it works, yes.

You spend money creating something, hoping the market will pick it up.

Yeah. Offline translation (i.e. that doesn’t send data to Google to translate), better screen reader functionality for blind people? Sign me the fuck up.

People are just seeing “AI” and getting upset about it. Absolutely stupid.

Their ad metrics thing is 100% private. Nobody, not even Mozilla, can tie the data back to you. Each data point is packaged separately (so that you can’t get all of it and easily work out who it is). Mozilla created an effective way to have genuinely privacy-respecting and metrics and they’re hated for it.

I don’t like ads, I use an adblock, but the internet runs on ads. Ads unfortunately have to exist if we still want all this online content, and if they do exist, they should be private.

With any hope, the likes of the EU will push for this over the kinds of ad systems that Google and Meta push.

As for the AI integration in Firefox - it runs locally and does stuff like offline translation (i.e not sending the contents of the page to Google translate), as well as enhanced screen reader functionality for blind people. Stop trying to equate it to the likes of ChatGPT.

Honestly a number of these were abandoned for reasons that are fair enough.

Additionally, lots of these are open source and either have been or can be forked.

We’ve come a long way. An analogue clock in particular seems crazy to me lol

It’d be interesting to see a timeline of different UIs on Linux, from the beginning to now

I’m going to preface this by saying the whole Americanised ACAB stuff is silly. Not everywhere has a shitty, militarised police force like theirs. Where I am, my experience with the police has been pretty positive, even with me being an immigrant with darker skin.

But man, no.

If police want your data, they can ask you politely, and if you say no, then that should be it. End of discussion. People have the right to privacy.

Maybe the officer wouldn’t do anything nefarious. But then again, maybe they will. You have no way of knowing what type of person that officer is. Even good police forces have plenty of shitty employees, so police powers should be limited to avoid them just doing whatever they want.

If there’s a genuine reason to have your data, say you’re implicated in some criminal investigation, then they can go through the proper channels and get a warrant.

Police absolutely should not have the power to just do whatever they like. If you let them, have that, it leads to shitty police forces like they have in the US and elsewhere.

Where did I say that?

You seem to be looking at this like a console fanboy. Me criticising Apple does not mean I’m a fan of Google.

Yes, Apple is bad. They are a tax-dodging multi-trillion-dollar company. They are not good. They are not your friend.

Android phones have this feature as well btw lol

A lot countries have this now.

Even for a number of countries where it’s not technically enshrined in law, police can still effectively do it anyway, by detaining you for as long as they like until you comply.

Indeed. Looking up how it works, this is how it should be done. I wish other browsers did this too.

This article is straight up misinformation in that it presents this as an erosion of user privacy. It isn’t.

That said, given how fickle people are online, Mozilla should’ve probably seen this coming and not enabled it on pre-existing Firefox installs.

You’ve celebrated genocide from the start. Bye bye.

I think buying an app for a couple of quid that has a good curated collection of wallpapers, a nice UX, etc. is a completely fair price to pay for the convenience. I like supporting devs. I fail to see the stupidity.

A $12 monthly subscription is an entirely different beast, though.

You are the one celebrating genocide. I’m not the one who needs their head sorted out.

Da comrade. Don’t worry. Soon the Ukrainians, Uighurs, and Palestinians will be exterminated

No, the discussion is about Chinese EVs. You’ve just went on a tangent of whataboutism because your dick gets hard at the thought of Uighur slave labour camps, Uighur sterilisation, Uighur killings, as well as Ukrainian children being raped and killed.

Because you’re a piece of shit tankie who should kill himself and rid the world of another turd who supports genocide. You love what China is doing, you love what Russia is doing, you love what the Nazis did, and you probably love what Israel is doing too.

Enjoy your subpar car made by slaves under the treat of having their family killed.

Again with the whataboutism.

I criticise China for using slave labour from a religious minority they are commuting genocide on and your reply is “but the US has done bad things too”

Nobody gives a fuck about the US. This isn’t about the US. I was just dismissing your whataboutism by pointing out that China is far worse.

Why are you advocating for genocide? Do you get warm fuzzies every time you hear about an Uighur dying in a labour camp? Or any time one gets sterilised?

I bet you support Russia’s genocide too.