It’s dangerous to tell people “shit’s fucked and there’s nothing you can do about it” because they might believe you and do nothing.

Which is why I’m not doing that.

P.S. I’m not advocating for doom here, I just wish more people understood that Americans buying cheap Chinese electric cars won’t save the people living nearby the mine in Africa where the cobalt for those batteries was extracted.

I don’t think you disagree with the parts where I say people will suffer.

With respect, I think you’re projecting a discussion with a different person onto this article.

I don’t think so? My comment is generally aimed at “the situation is grim, but tech just got awesome, so let’s save the planet people!” optimism-filled pieces, much like this one. Forgive me if I come across as affronted when, as temperatures reach new and dangerous heights in certain regions, I am put out seeing someone say market forces are on the cusp of saving us.

For what it’s worth, I hope you’re right.

Thank you.

Whenever using this trick, I’d suggest using DDG instead of Bing if possible.

There’s a chance duckduckgo does something similar, but sadly I can’t check at the moment.

Leaving a comment so I remember to try it later—unless anyone reading is willing to do so.

Purely anecdotally from what I’ve been reading online, it seems most younger folks hate Threads.

Not necessarily because of privacy issues or social impact, mind you. They also think it just sucks to use, don’t like the UI, don’t like the content—which turned out to include a lot of people trying to build a personal brand and sell you things. Just like Instagram, where most users came from.

Excluding content details, Mastodon fails similarly. Requires learning, unsatisfactory UI, more difficult to find and engage with content you like.

Wasn’t there a privacy scandal involving them a while back?

Edit: for reference, see this link by The Verge or this one by Mozilla and scroll down a little.

I’ve seen this, and what bothers me most is when you get that nasty feeling they’re not looking for a therapist, but validation. Yeah, your ex-wife sucked, man. She was totally in the wrong about everything always, sorry you had to deal with her for so long. I’m sure you’re in the clear and there’s nothing you could be blamed for, it’s easy to tell from this one-sided retelling of your personal conflicts.

When anyone’s first topic of choice for casual conversation is how much their last partner was in the wrong, it’s… difficult not to be dubious.

Perhaps the value is in having something explicitly written in a book, so that we can actually throw it at them.

They won’t catch all cases, but maybe the fear of slipping and becoming the unlucky company that gets caught and punished will have a positive effect on the industry.

I don’t have a backgrounder in law, this is simply optimistic speculation in response to pessimistic speculation.

Yeah, I thought about mentioning that. But the comparison goes both ways. Less than 1% of Chrome users switching to Firefox could still mean an increase in Firefox users of over 10%, if I remember my numbers correctly. That’d be a sweet boost for most products.

No. I simply meant that there exist Chrome users who appreciate what it provides them (features, UI, etc), so for these users to leave they’d have to give up those things. That’s always a hard ask.

I think some people overestimate how many will migrate to Firefox in the near future over this.

• High switching cost compared to finding another extension (e.g. uBO Lite), even if the resulting experience is worse.
• Just as many Firefox users like Firefox, lots of Chrome users enjoy what they have too. They don’t want to lose that.
• The kind of tech-aware person who’d switch over this is much more likely to have seen the news months ago and taken action already.

As fun as it is to imagine an Adpocalypse shocking the masses and pushing them to try out alternatives to big tech, it’s also way too optimistic, I feel.

Lemmy has a languages setting that might be helpful here, but I never bothered to check what it actually does. Er, sorry. Just, it could be worth looking into.

Blocking certain country focused instances can help, too.

Putting their comments aside, I think it’s really impressive how they came up with the perfect four word combination to blue-screen my brain every time.

Oh, him. Thanks.

nowadays he’s running the Brave browser.

Yeah, that’s what I knew him from. Figures he would go on to lead a browser infamous for its controversies.

Oh my, could you share more information about the homophobic CEO thing?

How about a little positivity?

Supposedly, a lot of lying, staging, faking, possible fraud, generally shady and consciously exploitive behavior towards viewers, many of which are kids.

This is stuff I remember off the top of my head, according to 1 (one) half-watched video on the topic. In other words, I’m not exactly in the know.

Disappointing. Any reason to believe this might be a mistake or an outlier? I was just starting to seriously consider adding mbfc to the usual set of tools I depend on online.

Maybe paint things that reflect your interests? Be careful to pick long-lasting ones, though. Otherwise future you might think present you was a goofy idiot… Which could be endearing, really depends.

Generally, I suggest you consider painting things you cherish. You’re putting in effort, and you’ll be seeing the result often, so it might help to pick something you care about.

Performance and general usability wise, yes, but I’m not sure that holds up for other aspects. What if I care about buying stuff that:

• I can properly own
• Is made to last
• Is repairable
• Doesn’t bundle spyware (or bundles less of it)
• Doesn’t remove features I like (e.g. audio jacks)
• Doesn’t support shitty companies (or does so as little as possible)

And so on. You add up all those tiny worries and suddenly buying things becomes a nightmare, even if every option seems better on the surface.

I’m much more aware of this stuff now than I was over a decade ago and, sadly enough, I can’t forget it. Ignorance was bliss.