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Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks (krebsonsecurity.com)

The nonprofit organization that supports the Firefox web browser said today it is winding down its new partnership with Onerep, an identity protection service recently bundled with Firefox that offers to remove users from hundreds of people-search sites. The move comes just days after a report by KrebsOnSecurity forced...

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Differentiating yourself on privacy and offering paid for tools for privacy that in reality make your privacy worse than if you did nothing at all. Mozilla keeps on bumbling towards inevitable demise.

I’ll get downvoted for saying that because of Lemmy’s demographic, but it’s true and deep down you all know it. Look at how Arc is innovating with new browser features. That’s what we always wanted Firefox to be doing, but Mozilla is content with sucking from Google’s tit.

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If you’re a normal functioning human being then seeing less political news on social media is a good thing.

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And you’re free to change it. It’s simply a default. What’s your problem?

Don’t like that it’s a default? Don’t use threads. Pretty simple decision making well adjusted humans are capable of doing.

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So a law designed to force more competitive app stores actually results in negative consequences for users?

Good job EU, don’t go all shocked pikachu on us now.

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Good news is that Arc for Windows is coming out of open beta soon. Finally time for me to ditch Firefox.

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Am I? For ditching a product that sold out my personal info by using a paid-for service designed to protect my privacy?

I gave Mozilla their chance and they pulled this shit.

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Yep, built on Chromium.

But it’s okay, I kinda like the downvote game here and pissing off the extremists who baby raged on over after Reddit’s API change.

Arc is the first company actually innovating in the browser space in two decades and I’ll happily accept that work being done on top of an open-source base that Google doesn’t control that much.

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Yes, and they never should have been in that position to begin with. Mozilla’s extreme lack of due diligence has lost my trust for every other service they offer. Is that so hard to understand? Or is your head so far up Mozilla’s ass that you can’t see the obvious?

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I’ve come to the conclusion that Lemmy is a dumpster fire filled with terminally online nerds living in their mom’s basement. It’s even worse than Reddit.

Like Mozilla offered a paid service designed to protect your privacy that just made your privacy worse than if you did nothing at all, and these NEETs want you to think it’s okay because they fired the company after the damage was already done.

And you’ll get mass downvotes for saying that’s a shitty thing to do.

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What did I fail to understand? That Mozilla didn’t do their due diligence and went into business with this person and only dropped them after damage to their customers was already done?

Let me be clear for your simple mind: Mozilla would have caught this if they looked into their business partners, but they failed to do that. So they lost my trust.

looking for the best product

And the best browser right now is Arc, which just opened up their Windows Beta to the public.

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Breaking up before or after they were doing business with OneRep? Because they should have caught this before any of their customers ever paid for it.

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Is it so hard to understand that people feel burned by a paid-for service that promised better privacy actually selling out your info because Mozilla didn’t do the bare basic due diligence?

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Look at how downvoted you are for stating this simple fact. Lemmy is a fucking dumpster fire.

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And the fact this wasn’t caught sooner means Mozilla doesn’t do any due diligence and aren’t to be trusted being a privacy-focused business.

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Don’t feel bad about the downvotes, normal people understand how this should have never happened in the first place but terminally online nerds will defend Mozilla to their dying breath.

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Look at this comment with -20 downvotes and tell me this place isn’t an echo chamber filled with one way to think.

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/10163765

I’ll take Reddit’s shitty practices over this place’s community.

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But you don’t understand. It’s Apple’s responsibility to make iMessage work across all platforms instead of users making informed decisions and using WhatsApp/FacebookMessenger/Whatever nth version of chat app Google is offering. /s

Bunch toddlers demanding equal playtime with a toy they don’t own and then ranting to their mom, who instead of buying the toy for their kid, sues the neighbor to force them to let their kid play with the toy.

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Nothing is stopping people from downloading whatever chat app they want to use. EU has done that.

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People forget the state of SMS before Apple decided to tell telcos to go fuck themselves and rolled out iMessage.

Americans would still be paying per-text message without Apple.

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Don’t bother mate. Lemmy is a dumpster fire filled with angsty teenagers who hate their green bubble. It’ll be another couple decades before they understand how the world works.

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So you’re saying iPhones are as important to humanity as the internet and should be equally regulated as such?

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But does it work? Can you, as an Android user, send text messages to and from people with iPhones?

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Ah, I see a comment with downvotes here and I know it’s a rational one I should be paying attention to.

Things work, but they feel entitled to forcing Apple to dedicate their resources to offering the same experience to people who don’t do business with Apple.

Forcing a business to operate better with another competitor for no benefit of their own is a dangerous precedent to set.

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Tbh he should get the money if he somehow convinced all those mods to work for free

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Well it’ll only be fully consenting brains.

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What lock in? I can’t export my Google Play movies the same way I can’t export iTunes movies. What am I missing?

US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones (www.theverge.com)

The US Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general accused Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in a new antitrust lawsuit. The DOJ and states are accusing Apple of driving up prices for consumers and developers at the expense of making users more reliant on its iPhones.

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Passing this would destroy Apple’s entire business, where they spend their effort and money deeply integrating their products to work together.

Instead, they’ll have to spend their time and money creating an API to let random Joe make a watch for an ecosystem they did nothing to create, foster, or maintain.

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People don’t need to use an iPhone. A symptom of our declining society is expecting people or businesses to accommodate your personal interests instead of you making an adult decision.

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You don’t need to buy an iPhone, and if you don’t have one then this doesn’t affect you and you’re baby raging about nothing. If you do have one and are still mad, then perhaps evaluate how little self control you have over your purchases.

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And I’m speaking to a bunch of incel teenagers who are baby raging about a green bubble and how their parents won’t get them an iPhone.

That’s literally an argument in the DoJ’s case, btw. A case led by incels.

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Android is an ecosystem made up of OEMs under the lead of Google, and all these OEMs have different business models. Google’s however, is an ad-based monopoly. Totally different business model. You referring to Android as a single entity shows how clueless you are about this topic.

Mobile is a different environment compared to desktop, so you’re comparing Apples to oranges.

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Thanks for being my first, I guess

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What existing rules? The rules designed for 19th/20th century oil companies that don’t apply to modern tech companies?

New rules are being written.

Apple could play in the game with a different set of rules

They’re playing a different game because they’re the ones who built the ballpark they’re playing in. Don’t like the game? Don’t go to the ballpark.

It’s so exhausting how you people simply can’t accept “don’t buy Apple” and leave it alone.

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You think you want this, but you really don’t. If Apple is gone then Android is all that exists and THAT IS A REAL MONOPOLY.

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    I’m convinced humanity doesn’t deserve software or computers in general. OP really be complaining about less than 6 quarters…

    Microsoft is once again injecting pop-up ads into Google Chrome on Windows in a bid to get people to switch to Bing (www.theverge.com)

    The software giant first introduced malware-like pop-up ads last year with a prompt that appeared over the top of other apps and windows. After pausing that notification to address “unintended behavior,” the pop-ups have returned again on Windows 10 and 11....

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    I gotta hand it to Apple for taking one for the team and soaking up all of the EU’s anti-trust efforts. Lets other American tech companies do egregious shit like this. /s

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    Seriously. Reddit is a glorified link sharing service with comments looking for a 6+ billion valuation. Christian and a couple backend devs could recreate it all in a weekend.

    Reddit is hopeful that AI training is their golden ticket but in all reality they’ll only ever have one large buyer. OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, etc, don’t want something that Gemini already bought.

    With all that out of the way, I don’t see very many companies lining up to license a far left-leaning dataset that had all non-echo chamber discussion banned. I mean, look at how much trouble Google got in with an objectively racist Gemini that forced them to turn off human image generation.

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