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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • I understand that, but what they do with user data is governed by their Privacy Policy, which again, is unchanged. The ads they buy are the same Sponsored ones that show up on blank tabs—the ones that have been there since before they made that change.

    They made the change to the ToS, because a California law expanded the definition of “sale/sell” beyond what most people understand the word to mean. There’s enough vaguery in the wording of the law that the way Firefox works, it could land Mozilla in hot water the way the ToS were worded. It’s stupid, Mozilla did probably the worst job possible communicating why they were making the change, and the internet freaked out.

    I’m not saying you shouldn’t leave. That’s up to you. I’ve been running LibreWolf since then, because a company that has $37M in investments and pays their CEO $8M should have the means to have a decent marketing team, one that could warn them it would be stupid to abruptly cut out a section on selling user data. However, it’s simply not true that they’ve suddenly joined ranks with the likes of Google.

    Again, do what you want, but I hope people do it because they’ve been informed about the facts, not because the internet brought out the pitchforks again.












  • An aunt used to make these lamb cakes for Easter. They always looked fantastic with the frosting and coconut, but they were surprisingly dense, and they tasted like they were made with lamb fat or something instead of butter.

    I am food adventurous and will eat just about anything, but inedible doesn’t begin to describe these cakes, and she had no clue they were terrible, so she kept making them for years.


  • I thought it constituted a full engine, curious on your take.

    Two reasons:

    • It is often a last consideration for web devs. If I had a dollar for every time WebKit broke just at my work…
    • I don’t like Apple, so since it’s my dumb comparison, they get demerits for being a stupid walled garden that’s hard to leave.

    It’s mostly that last one for me. It’s indeed a valid engine, but my understanding is that it’s not particularly great to work with. Either way, you can just take my comment as a thinly veiled dig at Apple.


  • From what I understand, usage stats are anonymized, and you can opt out of telemetry. But as I personally move to more hardened and private ways to connect, I’m moving to LibreWolf to err on the side of caution.

    It all feels like flying too close to the sun for my taste. I don’t like the idea of normalizing policies that aren’t cut and dry and easy to understand. Have a legal version and a version for dumb people like me if needed, but don’t expect me to play lawyer and connect the dots.