Post AC9D351ZdbYEZ3g2Wu by fluffy@social.handholding.io
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(DIR) Post #AC9BTZN9EANgJ9GtlI by enigmatico@fedi.absturztau.be
2021-10-08T07:08:56.564318Z
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Mozilla is going to incorporate ADS on their browser, camouflaged as "suggerences".Im starting to get really tired of Firefox already. But there is no good alternative.
(DIR) Post #AC9Bk116DKoIg8nh0S by enigmatico@fedi.absturztau.be
2021-10-08T07:11:56.325299Z
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"Ads is what keeps the internet free".Wrong. The Wikipedia has no ads, its community driven funded by donators and investors who keep it alive. I doubt Mozilla really needs that money considering how much interest it generates. Its pure greed.
(DIR) Post #AC9Br4RRsWXrKPUPFQ by icedquinn@blob.cat
2021-10-08T07:13:12.960042Z
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@enigmatico Wikipedia advertising is called paid edit warriors
(DIR) Post #AC9CB7JGvNZc10DvZg by icedquinn@blob.cat
2021-10-08T07:16:49.860731Z
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@enigmatico remember when Brave tried this but they were optional and you actually got paid to look at then and everyone complained for years that they even made it an option lol
(DIR) Post #AC9CDCzalf4iDc12wq by cristiansabarre@freespeechextremist.com
2021-10-08T07:17:14.299327Z
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@enigmatico i got waterfox as an alternative for Firefox
(DIR) Post #AC9CZe4el8dMa85ESe by enigmatico@fedi.absturztau.be
2021-10-08T07:21:16.791409Z
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@icedquinn Brave pays you crypto if you enable that. But its opt-in, not opt-out like this.
(DIR) Post #AC9CkE0m03JMw3JOU4 by piggo@piggo.space
2021-10-08T07:23:10.791850Z
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@enigmatico it's been doing this kind of shit for years, nothing to see here
(DIR) Post #AC9CqXtuxqkOMJ7SDo by meeper@outerheaven.club
2021-10-08T07:24:20.302286Z
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@enigmatico GODDAMIT MOZILLA
(DIR) Post #AC9D351ZdbYEZ3g2Wu by fluffy@social.handholding.io
2021-10-08T07:26:35.346419Z
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@icedquinn @enigmatico yes. Wikipedia is the opposite of a good example.Their political and history articles are widely criticized as thinly disguised propaganda ads. Something like half of the edits on american politicians come from the white house. So the claim it does not have ads at all is false.Finally, the website fundamentally is about ads because they only allow secondary sources. They do not allow primary sources, which is not only the standard but also the requirement of any scholarship. Instead they artificially prop up journalist interpretations of primary sources as a replacement. However, journalistic interpretations are, on the face of it, ads. It is paid writing done to math a specific tone and narrative, in this case that of the paper's mission as interpreted by it's editorial staff.Wiki even made a move years ago to make the math articles useless for math because "they were written by mathematicians". Now instead of only math students reading the wiki math articles, nobody does. So not only is it flush with ads - and the worst sort, the sort that is not identified as an ad, and is even purported to be knowledge - but also the quality on wiki has dumpstered.Mozilla is not someone I want to defend but Wikipedia is not a counter example.
(DIR) Post #AC9DKrcYD7v0CrS8A4 by enigmatico@fedi.absturztau.be
2021-10-08T07:29:48.144007Z
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@fluffy @icedquinn Im not discussing the content. You can access the content for free and there are no ads on the website.
(DIR) Post #AC9DUaSSsN8tsCN5eq by fluffy@social.handholding.io
2021-10-08T07:31:34.365589Z
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@enigmatico @icedquinn there are no ads only if you think "sponsored content" is not an ad
(DIR) Post #AC9DUyythRLVvjjKXg by graf@poa.st
2021-10-08T07:31:38.881705Z
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@icedquinn @enigmatico Firefox quietly added this to the new tab page and buried the option to turn it off in settings. very scummy behavior
(DIR) Post #AC9Dp0IeVTWpoNW880 by thendrix@social.hendrixgames.com
2021-10-08T07:35:15.695134Z
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@enigmatico I guess you can use chromium or whatever that indie browser the kids use now that's like emacs... or emacs.
(DIR) Post #AC9E8nyw0xPdOpjisq by newt@stereophonic.space
2021-10-08T07:38:49.084203Z
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@enigmatico oh @Errata complained about this just the other day. It's already out there.
(DIR) Post #AC9EOTrmZREje7rjgO by tester@poa.st
2021-10-08T07:41:40.845082Z
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@cristiansabarre @enigmatico Why not Libre Wolf?
(DIR) Post #AC9EwXKUCZW4ESWy0G by Craftplacer@pl.craftplacer.moe
2021-10-08T07:45:55.787024Z
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@enigmatico you pay money to be on the internet, not the other way around as an excuse to use ads or tracking
(DIR) Post #AC9IWJlsO7R2TB5zfs by thatonecalculator@voring.me
2021-10-08T08:27:54Z
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@enigmatico there is one: Librewolf. Firefox fork without the bullshit
(DIR) Post #AC9KLQ92YCN6xZrVI0 by Arkana@bunny.cafe
2021-10-08T08:48:21.382633Z
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@enigmatico Waterfox is a fork of Firefox, and was unfortunately bought out by some ad company but it's better than regular Firefox at least.
(DIR) Post #AC9NRHNANUTLLyxFFQ by pinemarten@poa.st
2021-10-08T09:23:01.861437Z
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@graf @icedquinn @enigmatico I changed to Vivaldi, it seems fine except a few extensions don't work as well as in FF.
(DIR) Post #AC9QWaAAF8fcwP5qCW by cristiansabarre@freespeechextremist.com
2021-10-08T09:57:36.598150Z
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@tester @enigmatico oh yeah I forgot about that
(DIR) Post #AC9Y2YS8psz0aDh89w by wizardyuuka@pleroma.nobodyhasthe.biz
2021-10-08T11:21:49.074211Z
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@Arkana @enigmatico Any idea how it compares to FF with a hardened user.js profile, e.g. https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js/ ?A common criticism against forks I've heard is that they're not as well maintained, even if you manage to find a decent one. Chromium and Brave aren't quite as customizable as I'd like them to be, but maybe part of my resistance to those is out of habit.
(DIR) Post #ACAPamTWVEvtUNXw0m by Arkana@bunny.cafe
2021-10-08T21:21:50.992413Z
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@wizardyuuka I haven't used firefox with that, but in my experience waterfox runs better. It also allows you to install chrome extensions.
(DIR) Post #ACB6N4dCUxETm2mcMq by cidoku@bunny.cafe
2021-10-09T05:10:49.956918Z
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@Arkana @wizardyuuka >waterfox kek. it's placebo dude.
(DIR) Post #ACB6N58OcyBbKnNWzY by Arkana@bunny.cafe
2021-10-09T05:21:10.454075Z
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@cidoku @wizardyuuka On my old computer waterfox was definitely better preforming than firefox. Although my harddrive was dying from old age so by the end both were pretty bad.
(DIR) Post #ADCBQMuUlZFTKj2EBU by mikuphile@gearlandia.haus
2021-11-08T15:44:38.553184Z
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@graf @icedquinn @enigmatico Kikezilla