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corbin

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  • Me but ublock origin

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  • Invasive Species

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  • I have informed myself. There is nothing personally-identifiable in the data Mozilla collects in Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/telemetry-clientid

    Technical data includes information about your Firefox version and language, device operating system and hardware configuration, memory, basic information about crashes and errors, outcome of automated processes like updates and safebrowsing. When Firefox sends data to us, your IP address is temporarily collected as part of our server logs. IP addresses are deleted every 14 days.

  • Invasive Species

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  • There's a lot of people on here that see literally any telemetry or analytics as evil, even though it's a necessary component for any software at the scale of Firefox (especially automated bug reports). Mozilla makes it clear they collect as little data as possible: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/telemetry-clientid

  • Invasive Species

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  • Telemetry is not privacy-invading, it's pretty well anonymized. It's also a lot easier to change the search engine than it is to download a completely different web browser.

  • Invasive Species

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  • Firefox doesn't invade anyone's privacy.

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  • Stock price is largely about future earnings potential, not current quarter or past results. That's why a company can have record-breaking earnings, but still eat shit in stock price for a while if it lowers predictions for next quarter.

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  • Proton Now Has a Bitcoin Wallet

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  • If you want to beat inflation, dump the money in a high-yield savings account, or a 401k, or a stock index, or any of the other options that have something resembling banking protection/regulation. There are so many better options than a speculative investment that you lose entirely with a social engineering attack or a SIM swap.

  • Proton Now Has a Bitcoin Wallet

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  • Bitcoin's value is significantly more volatile than the US Dollar.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    corbin @infosec.pub

    Proton Now Has a Bitcoin Wallet

    www.howtogeek.com /proton-now-has-a-bitcoin-wallet/
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    corbin @infosec.pub

    Proton Now Has a Bitcoin Wallet

    www.howtogeek.com /proton-now-has-a-bitcoin-wallet/

  • What is Firefox supposed to do?

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  • Okay, not the point.

  • What is Firefox supposed to do?

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  • Some of the "drawbacks" are the only way Firefox works as well as it does. If Mozilla didn't have usage telemetry data, automated crash reports, etc, Firefox would be a much worse application. This is how modern software development works when you have millions of users across a dozen or more platforms.

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  • What is Firefox supposed to do?

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  • LibreWolf only exists because Mozilla does all the actual development and runs all the infrastructure. That's like saying the US Virgin Islands should take over the rest of the United States.

  • What is Firefox supposed to do?

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  • I agree that advertising companies take too much off the top and a lack of competition has probably made that worse. That's also an issue with a lot of publishers, many of them make buckets of money but still pay writers/editors/other staff poorly. That's just normal capitalism stuff that won't be fixed until there's a major global economic shift.

    In fact prior to the Internet there was no third party advertising middle man between say newspapers and the actual advertisers paying for ads.

    Right, because there were very few newspapers, and all of them were well-known enough that finding advertisers was not difficult. Independent creators and smaller publishers don't have the brand recognition or massive initial audience to make that happen. You can see this in action with a lot of YouTube channels; most of them only have access to YouTube's own ad system and offers for in-video ads from shady companies and mobile games (Better Help, Raid Shadow Legends, Opera, etc).

  • What is Firefox supposed to do?

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  • If websites want my business they’ll support my browser.

    Sure, but that goes both ways, which is the part where you start losing a lot of privacy evangelists and Firefox fans. You are entitled to full control over your device and browsing experience, and sites retain the right to block browsers interfering with ads, trackers, or whatever else the sites use to pay the bills. A lot of people want it both ways and that cannot work at scale.

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  • PPA is potentially something that other browsers could adopt if it works and advertisers are reasonably happy. Maybe it won't come to Chrome/Chromium, but I could definitely see Apple being interested and adding it to Safari.

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    corbin @infosec.pub

    What is Firefox supposed to do?

    www.spacebar.news /mozilla-firefox-privacy-preserving-attribution/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    corbin @infosec.pub

    What is Firefox supposed to do?

    www.spacebar.news /mozilla-firefox-privacy-preserving-attribution/
  • Technology @beehaw.org
    corbin @infosec.pub

    What is Firefox supposed to do?

    www.spacebar.news /mozilla-firefox-privacy-preserving-attribution/
  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    Exclusive: See The Ways Shady T-Mobile Stores Treat Customers And Employees

    tmo.report /2024/07/look-at-the-ways-these-shady-t-mobile-stores-were-treating-customers-and-employees/

  • shræmp

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  • as shrimple as that

  • Google's goo․gl links will stop working in August 2025

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  • That's a whole lot of link rot about to happen.

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    corbin @infosec.pub

    Google's goo․gl links will stop working in August 2025

    9to5google.com /2024/07/18/googl-links/

  • How to install yt-dlp on Windows, Mac, and Linux

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  • Nothing specific, just that Chocolately is what I've used the most over the years and seems to be pretty reliable.

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    corbin @infosec.pub

    How to install yt-dlp on Windows, Mac, and Linux

    www.spacebar.news /how-to-install-yt-dlp/
  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
    corbin @infosec.pub

    How to install yt-dlp on Windows, Mac, and Linux

    www.spacebar.news /how-to-install-yt-dlp/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    corbin @infosec.pub

    Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)

    www.spacebar.news /chrome-ad-blocking-manifest-v3-ublock-origin/
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    corbin @infosec.pub

    Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)

    www.spacebar.news /chrome-ad-blocking-manifest-v3-ublock-origin/
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    corbin @infosec.pub

    Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers)

    www.spacebar.news /chrome-ad-blocking-manifest-v3-ublock-origin/
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    corbin @infosec.pub

    Apple reportedly has plans for a thinner iPhone, MacBook Pro and Apple Watch

    www.engadget.com /apple-reportedly-has-plans-for-a-thinner-iphone-macbook-pro-and-apple-watch-171137550.html
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    corbin @infosec.pub

    Meta Is Lying to You in New Quest VR Ad

    www.howtogeek.com /meta-is-lying-to-you-in-new-quest-vr-ad/
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    corbin @infosec.pub

    Apple refuses to call Apple Intelligence 'AI'

    www.engadget.com /apple-refuses-to-call-apple-intelligence-ai-195913202.html