sovietknuckles [they/them]

They expected to get a marginal number of additional users from vendor lock-in of existing Signal users

Wonder what will happen to Firefox if this ruling means Google can’t pay them to default to their search engine.

Yahoo was Firefox’s default search engine between 2014 and 2017. It would have lasted longer, but Verizon’s acquisition of Yahoo prompted Mozilla to terminate it. They can sign a deal with another search engine if the deal with Google falls through. In China, Baidu is the default search engine, and in Russia, Yandex is.

Certainly Google will be more careful after this ruling, but nothing will actually go into effect at least for several years, if it ever does, because Google is appealing.

That’s a large chunk of their funding.

That’s true. When Mozilla resumed their search deal with Google in 2017, Google provided 91% of their revenue. But the percent of Mozilla’s revenue derived from Google has decreased every year since then, most recently at 81% as of 2022.

Maybe it’s because I’m on a VPN, but I never get ads

“Hey, it’s totally cool that Microsoft GitHub blocked access to one of the repositories in the very center of the xz backdoor saga,” Michal Woźniak, a white hat hacker who was part of a team that discovered DRM in a Polish train earlier this year wrote on Mastodon. “It’s not like a bunch of people are scrambling to try to make sense of all the right now, or that specific commits got linked to directly from media and blogposts and the like. Cool, cool.”

Security teams that break stuff to mitigate risk and call it fixed is exactly what Linus’s Do No Harm plea is about.

Edit: It’s still disabled

Access to this repository has been disabled by GitHub Staff due to a violation of GitHub’s terms of service.

They’re paying for their own lawyer. Support them at https://www.patreon.com/yuzuteam]

Edit: They’re not fighting it, don’t donate

They offer legal aid to high-profile open source cases. So if you want them to notice, raising awareness of Nintendo’s current actions against Yuzu is a good step

https://www.patreon.com/yuzuteam

If you wish to support us a different way, please join our Discord and talk to bunnei. You may also contact: donations@yuzu-emu.org.

Or you could wait until the EFF commits to representing Yuzu (like they did for youtube-dl) and donate to the EFF at that point

There’s a request on r/yuzu for a GoFundMe, but it has no response from the devs so far.

Firefox Beta is for anyone who wants to use a version 1 month ahead of the latest stable Firefox version, and AFAIK it doesn’t have more telemetry than stable Firefox versions.

Regardless, you can disable telemetry and studies by setting some preferences in about:config (or a user.js file):

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Daily Mail

Do better.

Source: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-mail

For more tech-savvy users, sure. But I thought you were looking for a way for less technical users to share scrubbed URLs. You’re not going to get the less technical users out there who share URLs to add a URL tracking filter list to uBlock Origin, but getting them to install ClearURLs is within the realm of possibility.

Yeah, some high-tracking sites do break, and I’ll need to turn it off temporarily. If ClearUrls breaks a site, it means that the site baked tracking into the functional features of the site itself (which, besides being terrifying, violates GDPR).

If you get them to install ClearUrls in their browser (Firefox, not Firefox), they can copy/paste URLs directly from their URL bar and the URL will be clean with no extra effort.

I keep it enabled in all my browser profiles pretty much always

piracy sharing

I use Nitter Redirect, which redirects any twitter URL I visit to a Nitter equivalent.

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/nitter-redirect

Not Firefox: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nitter-redirect/mohaicophfnifehkkkdbcejkflmgfkof

If it’s working, visiting this link redirects to Nitter: https://twitter.com/DrLongissimus/status/1474279234239619087

5724-line batch script

Yes Facebook is using your 2FA phone number to target you with ads (from 2018, back when phones were still sometimes used for 2FA)

Agreed

I think they’re talking about ads on download pages making it more difficult to click the correct download button when pirating

So the same logic permitting enhanced interrogation in Guantanamo Bay, that being unconstitutional is fine as long as it’s not on US soil?