User-unique gets collected, and then the user-unique data sent to a remote server.
Only on the remote server will this data be aggregated, or so Mozilla says.
User-unique gets collected, and then the user-unique data sent to a remote server.
Only on the remote server will this data be aggregated, or so Mozilla says.
I think a big part of the problem is that they didn’t show anyone a notification or an onboarding dialog or whatever about this feature, when it got introduced.
Right. Not only didn’t they notify anybody, but they took to Reddit to defend the decision not to notify anybody:
we consider modal consent dialogs to be a user-hostile distraction from better defaults, and do not believe such an experience would have been an improvement here.
Which is strange, because Mozilla has no problem with popups in general.
The call proves nothing.
For comparison, white supremacists believe Jews are engineering the end of the “white race” because of a piece of paper in an SPLC office. This also proves nothing.
Never underestimate the power of a company to exploit you. Maybe they won’t, but nobody saw AI getting trained on every word we write either.
(Gaben, if you’re reading this and you mean no harm, then tighten up your privacy policy).
I think you misunderstand me. The Ukrainians made their own choice in 2014. There was no US “coup”. That’s the year Russia’s puppet was removed, and the year Putin turned to an invasion.
Ukrainians wanted Yanukovich, the most unpopular and probably most corrupt Ukrainian president, gone.
Despite attempts to treat Ukrainians as lesser beings by pointing to an imaginary puppet master, they did this on their own accord, and only 4.9% of them wanted him to return.
Are you using it? You don’t have to, although I understand it offers quite the proposition in terms of value.
You may also need to worry about anti-cheat systems and how much access they give themselves to your system.
Sounds like we agree with each other.
How do you figure you need to trust it more than both your ISP and your government? I understand how it gets as much data as your ISP traditionally does, and that means you need to trust it as much as an ISP…
…But I have a very poor opinion of any ISP that operates on regional monopolies (as is common in the United States), and those are probably linked directly to the NSA a la PRISM anyway. I imagine a VPN, even a mediocre one outside the Eyes countries’ jurisdiction, frustrates this.
It removed a Russian puppet leader. Now there is no foreign puppet in charge of the country. This alone is a huge change, doesn’t sound like it’s “merely” a shift.
Using LGBT rights and antisemitism (and even censorship!) as a metric, I’m pretty sure you would agree that leaning towards “pro western” values is preferable to what Russia is doing in their country and to their puppet states.
It’s interesting how the biggest comments either pretend there is no war, or remove Ukrainian self-determination from discussion of it.
Seems kind of like those people who try to lump in Palestinians in Gaza with some imaginary monolith of “all Muslims” in the middle east.
In 2014, Ukraine overthrew a corrupt Russian puppet president and called for a new election. Instead of participating, the puppet fled, and Ukrainians discovered his palace.
Were you aware of this?
That didn’t stop you from speculating earlier.
I’m guessing that due to the small size of Lemmy and the political nature of this post, there might be a lot of visitors who aren’t aware of how bad Telegram is at protecting privacy.
Telegram has disclosed names of administrators, their phone numbers and IP addresses of channels
It shouldn’t have had that data available to begin with…
In Gaza, I think the claim is “The invasion doesn’t stop the corrupt Hamas government from stealing food”…
Again, the solution is the invading country leaves and stops interfering.
“The people being invaded need to behave better” is one way people justify brutality against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. And despite the argument working better on Hamas, I reject it there too.
In both situations, the chaos is being caused by the invading country, and the onus is on the invader to leave.
You said “LOL” about Ukraine not getting to join the EU, but that was the same attitude the US and Israel had towards UNESCO for daring to admit Palestine as a member state in 2011.
Last time I checked, Ukraine is fighting a war against a Russian invasion.
During World War II, the US censored pictures of dead soldiers until 1943. And that was without a war happening on American soil.
Expounding on previous suggestions…
“On iOS” is rough because you’re at the mercy of whatever incredibly limited experience Apple allows. Safari is the only real browser on your phone and it can be subjected to limited ad blocking, followed by your system (phone or tablet) with something like AdGuard.
If you’re on a particular home WiFi network, you can also add your own DNS filter using something like PiHole.
With all due respect, Mozilla is now (and, for a while, has been) an ad company. When an ad company tells you ads are necessary, you should not trust them. Plenty of lousy things have been entrenched as social norms, but it is the job of the entrenchers to justify their existence… Which Mozilla is definitely not doing here.