Will Chromium-based browsers also have this “feature”, or can they turn it off (and will they)? Or is firefox the only safe alternative left?

But laws respecting speech are not nearly as liberal.

Then I’m not sure if it would be their best bet … Wikipedia relies on free speech on many levels.

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Yes of course, but I guess they could argue that legally they don’t count as the same browser, because each company using chromium as a base for their browser is adding or changing it as they like.

Someone could, in fact, fork Chromium and bring back support for Manifest V2 extensions, or disable whatever things Google does to block ad blockers (and in fact, I bet someone will).

I mean, they could also argue that all the Chromium based browsers are not Chrome, and so there is competition (we know how it really is, of course, but they have good lawyers…).

But I’m sure that’s at least part of the reason why they keep funding it.

While you might be right, does that mean we should all stop trying to be sustainanble because “oil company bad”? At least they’re trying to set the right example.

Also, Google could just more simply stop funding Firefox: Mozilla gets a lot of money from Google just to be the default search engine. Then again, maybe Firefox can switch to Bing or Duckduckgo, though I don’t know if those would pay as well as Google.

Time to boycott widevine and insist websites switch to an open standard … (though honestly good luck with that, Google might very well win that battle)

I see you don’t like freedom of speech, at least not for people who disagree with you

True, democracy =/= freedom, though they usually (used to) go hand in hand

Seems like that’s the new global definition of “freedom” in general

Remember you are saying this on social media ;)

I think he’s implying he’s going to invest another 1.2k in the stock market, in vaccine dev companies / ETFs / etc. I could be wrong…

I’m not sure about the social dynamics with proof of stake, you might be right but, why aren’t people willing to volounteer? Is there a limit to how many stakeholders there are? or a minimum (large) stake, meaning you must be rich?

Anyways, one thing I can say for sure: these dynamics already exist with proof-of-work: miners started using specialized hardware, raising the barrier to entry for the “small guys”, so instead, people join large mining pools which are becoming more and more centralized.

So at least proof-of-stake is not worse in this respect.

A lot, but the solution exists, and it doesn’t require getting rid of crypto coins, it’s called proof-of-stake. Then maybe people can stop building stupid mining rigs …

Until the banks (or the government, or someone more powerful than you) decides you shall not use your money and those funds get blocked. Or maybe you don’t want to tell your bank, or the government, what you do with your money. Yes, there’s cash, but it’s going away. And please don’t tell me “you have nothing to hide, so nothing to worry”, there’s plenty of legitimate reasons for privacy.

If people stopped thinking about crypto as “EaZZy MoNey” and instead, just treated it for what it was meant for, as a currency, it could actually be useful. But please let’s get rid of proof-of-work and energy waste.

Crypto was invented as a fully decentralized form of keeping and spending money, not as an “investment” (really, gambling) instrument as it is used now, so I fully agree crypto isn’t evil, it’s how it’s currently used that’s a problem. Proof-of-work though is evil, due to its energy requirements. Thankfully some coins (e.g. ethereum) are switching to proof-of-stake which doesn’t waste energy for nothing.

There’s no constantly on sensors, just a microphone… A microphone is not a sensor, right? right?

Yet one more thing I’ll avoid like the plague (together with tiktok, temu, anything apple or tesla, the list keeps growing)

Antisemite and anti-Israel aren’t the same thing: one can dislike what Israel is doing without necessarily hating all Jews, whether they reside in Israel or not.

Or, you know, we could just forget about iMessage, and instead use Signal (or your favorite end-to-end encrypted messenger app) that works on both iOS and Android with no meaningful differences.