Anyone else thinks OP’s account is really sus?

Misery, USA

I’m not talking about this website specifically, a lot of sites ask for way too much info.

I just click away when I see a login wall, regardless of requirements. If I really want to read it, I use 12ft.io or similar.

Edit: Here’s a wall-less link: https://archive.ph/mFHH8

I really don’t feel like setting up an alt email address just to read a single article.

Indeed it is, but I’m concerned about the above, and thus don’t create user accounts willy nilly.

I could use a fake name and fake email, but a lot of sites require that you validate your phone number too, and it’s starting to become a lot of commodifiable data points.

Trust me, I get the feeling.

I’m only arguing from a legal standpoint, where it’s more appropriate to have CC0.

CC0 = Everyone owns it, no one can claim rights to it

Copyleft = No one owns it, the code owns itself and claims rights to itself

Since everyone paid for it, everyone owns it.

If no one paid for it, or if a single owning entity is feeling benevolent, then copyleft is appropriate.

I assume it would be difficult to get the consent of every US taxpayer to license this as copyleft, I believe CC0 (or proprietary, unfortunately) is the rightful default when in this situation. It’s debatable whether any government code should be proprietary, save for deployment secrets.

It’s generally for user data collection / sale and adding you to their marketing list.

Seems correct to me. It was paid for by the US public, using US public funds, it belongs in the public domain.

I also wish they had GPL’d it, but I’m not sure this would be appropriate here.

With Matrix’s CSAM and gore spam issues, I’ve been thinking about IRC more and more tbh.

Rules for thee but not for me

This article reads like a train wreck, and despite using the word “blackmail” like 20 times, does not go into details about what that actually means.

These are app stores, not app services, like GApps, GPS or MicroG

Correct

Only if that data centre is located on US soil.

Small projects do not benefit from economies of scale, I can almost guarantee you very little of this is actual profits.

I can vouch for lead-lined asbestos keycaps! They give a really nice, heavy metal response to your typing.

You: “Public opinion is tanking, so it must be true!”

Them: Provides detailed, sourced information that explains the situation

You: “Nerd, I don’t read that shit”

Are you following your emotions or are you truly trying to understand the changes? You seem to be attacking / strawmanning people left and right in this thread and are generally not interacting in good faith.

Onus probandi.

You make the claims, you serve the proof. You can’t point at a vague, general direction and go “here, proof!”. Especially not a social media feed, that’s the most subjective, volatile “proof” you could provide.

Quote me the text, in its full context, where it says that Mozilla is selling the data they are “now collecting”, or that it was optional for them without degrading services. Because I can’t find it.

All I see is data that Mozilla is required to collect to provide existing services, they are now putting it in black on white. I don’t really care what the “general opinion” is, opinions do not automatically become facts once sufficient people hold them.

I’ve seen Mozilla do bad stuff, this is just a very standard privacy policy update. Let’s criticize them when they actually deserve it, and encourage them the rest of the time.

Also, nice strawman instead of simply answering my question. 🥰

Can you be more specific than pointing in a vague direction?

I have not encountered those yet. I guess keep a Gmail handy if you really must.