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Gotta stop using Mozilla; Liberal Arts "Experts" adjudicating Public Science


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2020 Aug 7, 9:08pm   860 views  14 comments

by MisdemeanorRebel   ➕follow (12)   💰tip   ignore  

If you asked me 10-15 years ago if Firefox was going to get Pozzed, I wouldn't even know what the fuck Pozzed meant.

5 people, not a single White or Asian Guy, unless Dia is trans, and even so. Mostly Black. Betcha none have a STEM degree.
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/protests-pandemic-and-misinformation-june-30-virtual-panel/?utm_source=desktop-snippet&utm_medium=snippet&utm_campaign=moz-dialogue-debates-2020&utm_term=24098&utm_content=REL

Journalists, Activists with Liberal/BA degrees aren't Scientists. Interdisciplinary degrees like "Science Education" doesn't count either.

These same people set themselves up as experts on everything from Virology to Geophysics; feel empowered to dispute world famous doctors/PhDs, much less more ordinary practicing ones, many with 30+ yrs exp.

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1   Patrick   2020 Aug 7, 9:24pm  

Almost all of Bay Area tech is like that.
2   just_passing_through   2020 Aug 7, 9:43pm  

The browser has... Well if you open a new tab you see articles by 'pocket'. A bunch of leftist and commit shit. I'd considered the Brave browser a while back but haven't tried it.
3   just_passing_through   2020 Aug 7, 9:44pm  

I actually made my own browser back in 04. It was kinda klunky but worked for what I needed.
4   just_passing_through   2020 Aug 7, 9:46pm  

"Julie Owono, Executive Director of Internet Without Borders"

Duh!

"Neema Iyer, Founder of the civic technology company Pollicy"

Um.. How does one spell pollicy?

Heysus Christos!
5   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Aug 7, 10:07pm  

Just installed Brave, and moving bookmarks over was a snap from Firefox.
6   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Aug 7, 10:19pm  

I had previously installed Brave but it was useless

FOR PORN.
(and very secondarily for Music)

Okay, here is a handy link for those who like to download video/mp3 with no muss or fuss. The evil GOOGLER prohibits a lot of video downloading, esp. from Youtube, so it's not on the Chrome Store that Brave depends on. The extension downloaders are pretty useless unless you get them direct and install from the maker.

I find Video Downloadhelper that will DL almost any streaming video:
https://www.downloadhelper.net/
7   Ceffer   2020 Aug 7, 10:23pm  

Not a symposium. KommieKunt paid propaganda advertising to make useless KommieKunt woke agitators feel validated with their printing press credentials. Really, who says shit like this and doesn't immediately want to cut their own tongue out?

Who paid? Who knows. These will be your judges at the gulag.
8   just_passing_through   2020 Aug 7, 10:45pm  

NoCoupForYou says
I had previously installed Brave but it was useless

FOR PORN.
(and very secondarily for Music)


How about now? I'd just really like to replace fuckfox.
9   Karloff   2020 Aug 8, 12:40pm  

I use youtube-dl on Linux for saving off streaming videos if I think they're important enough and at risk of being taken down by insecure authoritarians.

It's written in Python, so it should also work on Windows if you install a Python interpreter.
10   Hircus   2020 Aug 8, 2:05pm  

Wow. I recently switched to Vivaldi because Opera got bought by Chinese, and Vivaldi was like a non-chinese fork of it. I've been pretty happy so far, and they had a decent privacy policy. But I just read a little deeper, and noticed there's some default settings enabled that are probably common in the various webkit based browsers like Vivaldi.

In particular, form-filling by default uses a google service to help it identify which fields in the form are for an address / email / name / phone etc...But google apparently crowd sources this data. So every form you encounter, you browser automatically sends the url + list of form field names to google, so that google can reply, telling you what each field type is, so that in the event that you start filling out the form, the browser can auto fill it better. And, when you submit the form, they send more data back to google to feed the crowd-source monster, telling it about what types of data you actually entered into each field (they dont send actual values, though).

You can disable form-filling feature to prevent this, but you also need to disable password management too, because that feature also uses this same form-filling api, and enables the same crowd sourcing of ALL forms you encounter.

That tells them not only what sites you visit, but also tells google which sites you care about enough to submit a form. And, they know which form too ie is it registration, purchase, etc...
https://www.google.com/chrome/privacy/whitepaper.html#autofill

Looks like I need to keep searching for a different browser, or maybe I can disable these features and replace them with extensions. It's hard to trust extensions though - I've been burned in the past when the extension author sells to a new shady company that suddenly starts injecting spyware into the code. Sometimes I manually audit the extension code, then turn off auto update for the extension, but this is a lot of labor if its something that needs to update often.
11   Bd6r   2020 Aug 8, 3:32pm  

Removed Firefox - but what is a good substitute for Thunderbird? It is also part of Mozilla Foundation.
12   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Aug 8, 10:30pm  

Brd6 says
Removed Firefox - but what is a good substitute for Thunderbird? It is also part of Mozilla Foundation.





Haven't found any yet. There's Claws but I heard it doesn't allow HTML compliant emails
13   Blue   2020 Aug 9, 12:46am  

try - qutebrowser
14   SunnyvaleCA   2020 Aug 10, 3:33am  

How is Microsoft Edge browser, recently released for macOS, even. 20 years ago Microsoft was the Evil Empire... now the standards for evil are much higher!

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