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Dumb Oligarch Gets Everything

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Reading through their privacy policy, it seems pretty normal stuff to me… Even ensuring that more data stays local than other browsers.

This sounds like bad communication more than bad software.

You might not be using functions that require data to work. Are you using the AI options? Image to text? Translation? Saving passwords? Using search suggestions? Then you don’t need to send any data.

Like it or not, most browsers do most of those things now. FireFox is no exception.

This seems like a lot of smoke and no fire to me.

“Look, it’s nobody’s fault, and we don’t know how this happened, but for unforeseeable reasons we have a shortage.”

Narrator: It was forseen, they do know how it happened, and it was his fault.

Are we great again yet?

Glad we’re only letting in the Very Best People…

The only thing that can stop a bad guy with access to my private phone data is a good guy with access to my private phone data. /s

Would you also ask airbnb to delist homes in East Jerusalem owned by Palestinian Israelis? Or is it only Jewish Israelis that should be boycotted?

Not every comparison is whataboutism. This looks like more “Israel Bad” virtue signaling than it does helping Palestinians.

I do think maybe it’s a good idea to think about how we treat similar situations before we decide that a company should not do business with a particular ethnicity in an area.

America is a nation of immigrants and mixed cultures. In the early 1900s, there was great pressure to acculturate to the “American” way of doing things. Immigrants changed their names, clothes, foods, and language to match the “mainstream.” There was a push to build a “colorblind” society.

By the 1960s-70s, younger people began to realize that “acculturation” really meant erasing cultural heritage and acquiescing to white, Anglo, male-dominated culture. So there was a movement to preserve, celebrate, and empower differences between people.

This gave rise to the Black Power movement, creation of the term “Hispanic” and the Latin American ethnicity, Women’s Lib, Gay Pride, and even the rise of pizza delivery chains (which was regarded as a somewhat exotic ethnic food at the time).

That tension continues in the USA between recognizing and celebrating cultural differences, and becoming a melting pot of many cultures becoming one.

If the issue is stolen land, then shouldn’t we be boycotting these platforms until they are out of non-native USA and Canada? Doesn’t that make up thousands of times more of their business?

How about XÆa-12? Asking for a friend.