I still wonder why they chose Swift

https://xcancel.com/awesomekling/status/1822236888188498031

They just closed the issue without even acknowledging it, lol

They acknowledged the remote debugging backdoor issue and fixed it a year ago.

It was enabled due that zen was still a toy project and we needed people to easily open the debugger for easier bug fixing. This was due because zen was not in a daily drivable state and didn’t gain any sort of popularity yet.

https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/pull/927

The telemetry issue is entirely different. Their handling of that is naive at best, dishonest at worst but it is completely different from the “backdoor”.

The “backdoor” mentioned in a single reply is very different from the telemetry issue. https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/pull/927 was fixed a year ago.

I agree the telemetry should be either disabled or at the very least users should just get a config tab on first launch to opt out but the Lemmy submission is misleading and bordering on fake news.

I don’t think so. Cannot remember that it did. Fog did though.

The tech sounds useful to bridge cell towers in rural areas among each other to skip satellites and laying cables.

Back when I was still in university, dormatories’ internet was established using a similar tech to the main campus. It was great, except on snowy days. Then there was just no internet at all.

Why are you being hostile?

I’m not.

I just mostly focus on middle eastern politics.

Maybe broaden your horizon.

they aren’t as much of a danger as the sauds globally.

Yeah, the ones with nukes and fighting a war against Europe are not a danger.

OOTL, who is it for them, then?

The Kim dynasty. How can one be out of the loop about the basics of North Korea?

I’m locking this because too many people are shouting at each other here because of moderation practices.

This is not a complaints forum. See pinned post.

Can there please be a scenario where both shit companies sue each other so much that both go bankrupt?

The sauds are the most evil people alive. And i’m saying this as an arab.

Koreans might disagree with this statement.

Moving over to another proprietary location data hoarder is not really a good solution, though.

Location Data. We collect location data such as information about your device’s location, which can be either precise or imprecise. How much information we collect depends on the type and settings of the device you use to access the Services. For example, we may use GPS and other technologies to collect geolocation data that tells us your current location (based on your IP address). You can opt out of allowing us to collect this information either by refusing access to the information or by disabling your Location setting on your device. However, if you choose to opt out, you may not be able to use certain aspects of the Services.

https://walkscape.app/privacy-policy.html

“Arab country bad”

Yes but not because of ethnicity but because of human rights abuses.

How about all the other that have no checkboxes and you can find by snooping around in either the code or about:config ?

Which are? Genuine question. I’m not aware of those either.

There’s more settings you should set regarding privacy

Please be more specific.

The issue is that Mozilla is actively hiding these settings.

They are under “Privacy”, just as I expected where they would.

There’s one (I forgot which one) that you can’t find by searching for the title in the FF settings, you have to scroll to it yourself.

🤷

Friendship ended with Firefox,❎ Librewolf is my new best friend. ✅

A big problem with such forks (same with packages made by Linux distributors) is that there is a delay between official FF release and the release of the corresponding update of the fork. 99% of the time this doesn’t matter much but when there is a severe security issue, the patch needs to be available ASAP.

Past enshittifications of Firefox could be disabled by users. Users who know what to disable don’t need such forks then.

I’m not yet clear what Mozilla even intends. Is it just an adjustment of language of things that are already in FF and can be disabled easily? If so, I just keep the following shit disabled and benefit from earlier update releases.

Installed DuckDuckGo browser as soon as I saw the news the other day.

Oh cool, yet another Chromium variant. That’s going to be an actual change for the better.

The browser you use to download Firefox

Huh? Just type winget install Mozilla.Firefox into PowerShell / cmd.

You’re single-handedly saving this entire thread. I was about to delete it for being off topic.

Meaning separate alternative platforms for each Google product

Except for Maps Nextcloud offers it all, though. It’s not like there is any benefit of using Google Maps and GMail because there are no synergies at all.