ItsComplicated

joined 2 years ago
[–] ItsComplicated 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I would happily pay to download Firefox if they removed telemetry, ads, analytics. Security updates could be free, feature updates could have a small fee. Something similar.

There is a way to fund Firefox without user data and ads. Will it be as profitable, who knows, because quite simply, the vast majority do not want to make it a reality and loose what profit, control, or power they currently hold onto.

[–] ItsComplicated 57 points 7 months ago (2 children)

In parallel to our existing consumer products, we have the opportunity to build a better infrastructure for the online advertising industry as a whole. Advertising at large cannot be improved unless the tech it’s built upon prioritizes securing user data. This is precisely why we acquired Anonym. 

Catering to the ad industry is backwards thinking, imo. Securing user data is easy enough if you do not collect it to begin with.

Imo, the fact companies have changed the narrative in favor of advertisers and data collection, proves only profit matters, not the people.

[–] ItsComplicated 14 points 7 months ago

It still boggles my mind how paying for ads became acceptable. Not only is the company making money from the advertisers for the ad space, they now get to make money off the population for viewing the ads. This is a crazy world we live in.

[–] ItsComplicated 31 points 7 months ago

I’m pretty sure that Amazon, google, etc do far more nefarious shit behind the scenes in terms of tracking/fingerprinting you and collecting data to sell

You even get to pay more and more for this privilege…smh

[–] ItsComplicated 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I am not on Reddit, but, would making a subreddit private lead to difficulty in training the AI and collecting data?

[–] ItsComplicated 5 points 7 months ago

Indoor plumbing, heating and air!

[–] ItsComplicated 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Good…the bad place

[–] ItsComplicated 27 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Run, run far away and forget you ever heard of fb!!

The more this invasive behavior becomes the norm, the worse off ALL of us will be.

[–] ItsComplicated 26 points 7 months ago (6 children)
[–] ItsComplicated 11 points 7 months ago

For most people in this community, TNG is your parents' star trek. It began airing in 1987, 37 years ago. TOS is your grandparents' Star Trek, at the earliest.

Amazing how you do not think too much about your own age, until you see it staring back at you in black and white!

By this community’s standards at least I can say I did Live long. The Prosper part, not so much.

[–] ItsComplicated 41 points 7 months ago (11 children)

I did not see a reason given. Anyone know why?

[–] ItsComplicated 33 points 7 months ago (1 children)

this is not my original content but thought it applies

 
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