• XLE@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    Using entirely unrelated ad blocking technology is bad for what reason?

    You can feel free to moralize, but be consistent: Mozilla bought an NFT company to integrate their code into Firefox, and that’s not the only skeleton in their closet.

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      4 hours ago

      Oh they have a whole cemetery of a city in the basement.

      Still doesnt excuse it IMO.

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        2 days ago

        Does it need an excuse? It’s a good change. If you have a reason to dislike it, please provide one.

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      I mean what’s wrong with buying a company to access it proprietary code. NFTs were a dumb grift, but if the specific software product they offered was sound what’s the issue?

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        22 hours ago

        If the code was good, nothing would be wrong with it. It would be even better if the code was free. And that’s my point.

        (In Mozilla’s case, it’s actually much worse because they bought private customer data along with the technology and then canned the technology while keeping the data, but that’s a different story.)