These are faults for most people. They’re benefits to some! Myself included! I use an even more strict browser for most websites. I am not most people, neither are you. Most of the people I know, and most of the people I interact with, would uninstall that within 5 days because it’s missing features that have been standard in web browsers for at least a decade.
Most people will see that as an extreme annoyance the first time it happens, close the browser, uninstall it, and never try another Firefox fork again.
I need FOSS people to understand that most people will not do that.
All of these are disableable, very few people will even bother looking into how to disable them. They will stop using the browser.
Also I did say that
It’d cost about $36 billion, assuming roughly 665,000 people are on bail nationwide in the US, and the average Pennsylvania (couldn’t find anywhere else) bail amount of $55,400. There are ~902 billionaires in the US according to Forbes, though some of them are likely under $36 billion.
The only real selling point of any of these is “Not gmail.”
Like. Sure. If you email your friend from your $redacted e2ee military-grade encryption account, and your friend also has the same provider of their e2ee military-grade encrypted email account, then yes. They’re encrypted, and $redacted can’t really provide much if they get subpoenaed. If your friend is using gmail? Your emails are being read by gmail.
They often have other features, like I have a catch-all mailbox set up for my domain because I’d rather give lemmy$date@example.com than my actual email for various reasons. But their privacy ends where gmail begins.
I remember reading some of the files, and seeing a whoooooool lot of gmail addresses.
Track everything we do, but let this all fly under the radar…
Taking a moment to mention that it’s not hard to set up PGP for your emails, and most desktop clients that I’ve randomly looked at support it
Yeah, this was saying how it was back when I first started using Ubuntu back in the Lucid Lynx days. We’ve come a long way, and I couldn’t be happier
I mean, privacy had been getting worse for decades before Trump got in office. Mainstream tech has been on a steady decline for years, if not longer, and the privacy invasions being baked into most software have always been horrifying.
Was it all functional? Yeah. Were there a lot of horrifying things under the hood? Also yeah.
They’re more a declaration of intent than anything else, also it makes it more obvious you’re trespassing if someone, say, borders a forest, and their property has trees on it. It makes it really hard to tell where it’s okay to walk, since the line is invisible, so someone saying “I was walking in this public forest, and there’s no obvious marking here” is a viable defence in court.
But if there’s a fence, which is where I usually see these signs, they’re pointless at best, or a threat of violence at worst.
Let’s pull some obvious ones from the feature list!
For some other ones:
I’m not saying I don’t like these features. I do. I only accept login cookies from services I host myself.
Most people will see that as an extreme annoyance the first time it happens, close the browser, uninstall it, and never try another Firefox fork again.
Most people care enough about privacy to want convenient ways to increase it. Most people do not care enough about privacy to have to log into Facebook every single time they restart their browser.
All of these are disableable, very few people will even bother looking into how to disable them. They will stop using the browser.
I’d say Mullvad’s browser is more like browsing the net via TOR, but Librewolf is only about 2 steps behind it.
But yeah there are so many others that will still feel usable to someone who doesn’t think the everyone isn’t part of their threat model
Yes, desktop PCs challenge that trend. If you’re not chasing the newest of the new, you can keep using your old stuff till it dies. I’ve done one CPU upgrade, and a GPU upgrade, to my desktop in the eight years I’ve owned it, and it handles all of my games fine.
If you’re changing the motherboard, you’ll usually need a new CPU, and sometimes RAM. As long as your MOBO has a PCI/PCIE slot you can shove your old graphics card in there. Unless there’s a new RAM version, you don’t need to replace the RAM, and SATA’s been the standard storage connector for how long now?
Unless you’re going above your current PSU’s rating that thing’s good until it’s dead.
I just don’t see how this argument holds up. If your motherboard is old enough that they no longer make your CPU/RAM socket, and you’re looking to upgrade, chances are very good that thing’s lived far longer than most laptops would be expected to. But like. When I built my current desktop 8 years ago, it had 8gb of RAM and a… I don’t remember the graphics card, I know the processor was a pentium G something, and like 1tb of storage. It has an i7 (don’t remember the generation off hand), and an R9 290, and 32gb of RAM, and 7tb of storage now. Same motherboard. If I replace it I will need a new processor, and new RAM (the RAM is actively dying, so I haven’t been using it much), but these parts are all nearly a decade old, with the exception of the RAM. Well. One RAM stick is 8 years old, but that’s beside the point.
This just doesn’t line up with my own personal experience?
No, no. I think your showers need to be longer. You might be onto something.
It really depended on what you were doing, and how comfortable you were in the terminal. Even using Ubuntu you still had some terminal use required, and for gaming it just was not there yet at all. It’s definitely been a viable alternative for standard users for at least 7 years, and gaming got good about 5 years ago.
Source: Gamer who started dual-booting Linux 15 years ago, and stopped dual-booting Windows about 4 years ago.
Last I checked mine was at almost 80%. For a while there I was getting a shitton of traffic from outside that was getting blocked, which lead to a 99% reject rate, though.
Not sure what’s going on with my new room mate’s internet, but yeah that was a wild month of trying to get that all under control
Oh I’d likely have thought it was neat, I did find Linux a year later (or maybe I was 14, can’t remember exactly, I know I didn’t start using it until I was 15), but I’ve definitely gotten more, and less extreme on it xD
Ehh, personally I like thinking over things and forming opinions. I don’t frequently share opinions I don’t deem important, but I have 'em! Plus realizations in one area that seems small can have impacts on the opinions that are more important to you.
I feel like I should have majored in philosophy.
Maybe. I could be an edge case, but I don’t even think current me and 14 year old me could have a civilized discussion about anything we care about xD
I once had someone tell me “Ahh, everyone’s political opinions are all based on who they grew up listening to anyway!” and I did just have to ask them “Does that mean you’ve thought about none of your opinions since childhood???”
Like. No. I have a handful of opinions that haven’t changed since childhood/teenhood, and that’s just because I haven’t thought of them. Almost all of the rest of them are very different to when I was a kid.
I wasn’t talking about a new build at any point in my comment.