Simply put, no. You can make the claim but it doesn’t make it true.

Even if it were true, fuck the biggest pirate of them all, Google itself.

If you have a player who builds characters to exploit the system then that’s a player who needs a talking to, most likely.

Not that you haven’t had this explained to you repeatedly, but… thats not how the burden of proof works.

Example:

If I say “zephyreks is an unrepentant kisser of billionaire toes,” then I should be the one to provide proof of toe kissing. It’s not on you to prove that you don’t kiss billionaire toes.

In the article, the author makes a claim. They do not back up the claim with evidence. They dong do so, they should expect to be criticized for it.

Inevitable whataboutism aside, the evidence against China is overwhelming. The CCP has taken to playing the victim every time they’re criticized… and the disappointing thing is that there are those who will refuse to see the truth.

And then there’s this motherfucker, getting people killed by using the power of his governorship to spread misinformation and lies.

I just disconnected mine and set up a Kodi server to manage content, will set up a removable device if I ever need native streaming. The privacy issues with my LG and the ads they added after purchase were irritating enough to push me over the edge.

Nothing at all! I just don’t trust that providers like Meta won’t try to undermine privacy.

Exactly this.

Yeah, I’m not linking my other messaging services to WhatsApp. I’m good.

What, you don’t want Google serving you ads while you dream? Or have to pay a subscription fee for your lifesaving nanoparticles to continue to function? For shame.

/sarcasm.

Rewarding the groups that manipulate the system to hold onto power seems like a terrible way to enact change.

Choice right now for president is between fascists and a reformed anti-lgbt bigot who remains friends with some of those fascists, seeing their anti-women, anti-trans, anti-lgbt positions as “disagreement.” I feel like we can do better.

Democrats have been working with the Republicans to suppress minority voices for decades. No one who sees through that nonsense is fence sitting… they’re railing against the wall that the Democrats had a hand in building in the first place.

Debates, ballot access… to borrow your analogy, what do you call someone who teams up with Nazis because they want to maximize their chance of holding onto power?

There are better choices, if only those two weren’t using the law to silence them.

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“The rest of us?” I’ve been using Mozilla since it was a thing and I used Netscape back when you could buy it.

Caring about a project means recognizing risks. But I guess we shall see. Firefox, a Chromium based project, perhaps. Like Edge, Opera, etc.

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Did I ever say it was going away?

MySpace still exists. You can still log into Myspace and use it. Same is true of Livejournal, ICQ (last I checked,) and many other bygone services.

They’re not going anywhere either. But they’re still useless outside of edge cases.

I want Firefox to succeed. But I’ve also been watching it lose relevance for the last 10 years. I’d prefer it not to go the way of MySpace because its users are too stubborn to admit that it has a problem.

Pretty much is though. For Google not to impose its will on the internet as a whole, there needs to be meaningful competition. Firefox, for whatever reason, went from a browser capable of influencing policy to a niche browser for nerds, myself included.

So yes, the future of accessibility is very much a popularity contest and Chromium is sitting pretty with 70+% of the votes.

It will likely never die entirely, but it’s what… less 10% of its peak market share back in 2010?

I use Firefox, but given the fact that Chrome and its variants control so much of the browser space and Firefox so little… I wonder how long until Firefox has until it is rendered useless.

Yeah, I was messing with it the other day, trying to get it running on a Galaxy Tab. Process was… not really working well. Contrast with GrapheneOS, which is surprisingly easy to install, even on Linux.