Could you cite the reports for us?

Ah yes, the RCS problem. Thanks for the clarification!

tl;dr why have they taken a stance against it?

There’s no way to otherwise make this work for many users. They can use Tor if they’re worried.

Nah.

I’m a full-stack software developer working in the financial sector, their statement is factual.

Companies will never want to take on liability that has the potential to bankrupt them. It is in their best interest to not reveal the version of libraries they are using as some versions may have publicly known vulnerabilities, and it would make it incredibly easy for attackers to build an exploit chain if they knew the exact versions being used.

Securing client code is just as important as securing server code, as you don’t want to expose your users to potential XSS attacks that could affect the way the page gets displayed, or worse, leak their credentials to a third party. If this happened in the EU or some parts of Canada, and it’s been found that the company reduced their threat model “for the sake of openness”, they would likely be fined into bankruptcy or forced to leave the market.

Unfortunately, this is one of those cases where your interests and ethics will never be aligned with those of service owners as they are held to a certain standard by privacy laws and other regulations.

Do you want to see Mozilla and Firefox die a hero, or do you want to see it live long enough to become the villain?

With the US ruling of Google being a monopoly, Mozilla is bound to lose a lot of their income if that’s the decision that comes to pass. I’m happy with the courts ruling Google as a monopoly (because they are), but it does mean Mozilla needs to try to make money some other way.

Genuine question, would you be willing to pay for all the content you consume using a “token” system where each page, video or other piece of media has a price to it, usually about a cent per article or 5c per video, is automatically debited from either an account loaded with real money or some sort of blockchain, at the discretion of the user? A token could be one cent.

There’d be an open API, and multiple brokers could handle that transaction for you, so there is no vendor lock-in. You could even be your own broker if you set up your own server that talks to the servers hosting any media you’d like to consume. It would get rid of online advertising, but you have to pay out of pocket for server costs and content creation costs.

They lost me when they started letting Nazis sit at the table.

I mean it’s good for predicting climate models, but it certainly uses a lot of power to do so, which is the main issue with AI.

I do, I have a 2K display with lots of horizontal space. Vertical tabs allow me to better group and see tab names in vertical space rather than trying to line up truncated tab names on a horizontal axis.

It’s just an Android device technically, which means you can probably break into it

Have you tried Kagi?

I hate the name, I keep reading it as “Woke”.

I don’t trust projects that can’t translate their project properly, especially in English / French / German / Chinese where translators and correctors are plentiful.

Maybe I’m just an entitled French / English speaker, but I do make sure I find good translators and correctors for the most common languages for my projects.

Downvotes because you have a negative attitude is my guess.

ITT: People who think they know better than security researchers

Everything I don’t like is enshittification

A novel by Tobozo

That’s a bit reductive, don’t you think? Bugs happen.

Go fix it yourself if you feel so strongly about it, show your software development prowess.

I debated posting there, I think I’ll crosspost