The problem is that the main container can (and usually does) rely on other layers, and you may need to pull updates for those too. Updating one app can take 5-10 individual pulls.

And let’s not forget Cortana.

Yes but it’s unregulated and like most unregulated TLDs it has become a cesspool of malware and dark dealings. I don’t think anybody would never if that were to happen to .io.

Normally that would have been the preferred solution, but since IANA has experienced all kinds of shenanigans on similar occasions they have decided to not allow ccTLD’s to survive their former country anymore.

override the auto driving

I must be tired right now but I don’t see how a remote operator could have driven better in this situation.

You can’t get away from someone blocking your car in traffic without risk.of hitting them or other people or vehicles.

You probably meant they ought to drive away regardless of what they hit, if it helps the passenger escape a.dire.situation? But I have to wonder if a remote operator would agree to be put on the spot like that.

How do you avoid interaction if it’s being done automatically by your machine when you open up a print dialog, and if malicious servers can use the same names as legit printers?

May I ask what fake location do you intent to provide? And have you considered that it might invalidate your claims? Like, you say your car had an accident but your location says you’re in Antarctica, and they use that to weasel out of coverage.

I believe that rclone already has Proton Drive support.

It’s been removed in most of the US.

On some phones you won’t get anything when searching for “lockdown” but you most likely have it, it’s typically under Display > Lock screen > Shown lockdown option.

The community has been making Winamp clones for as long as Winamp has existed. XMMS appeared the same year as Winamp, in 1997. Audacious is still around and still has a mode where it uses Winamp skins.

The thing about Winamp is that it had its time in the spotlight for a few years and then everybody moved on to the new types of media libraries like foobar2000. Today it’s just a museum piece.

This was predicted back when they first announced it… what do you know, it was correct.

Why do you assume they haven’t warned Mozilla in advance?

Also, Mozilla was fully aware that what they were doing is in breach of GDPR. I find it extremely hard to believe that the makers of Firefox are not fully familiarized with it by now.

Last but not least Mozilla is doing this for financial gain. It’s selling pur data to advertisers. Why should we excuse it? It’s a very hostile act.

If Mozilla has hit rock bottom and has been reduced to selling our data to survive then that’s that. We’ll find another way and another FOSS browser. Accepting it is not an option.

So what, are we giving Mozilla a free pass to do anything now? Is the new bar “not quite as shitty as Google”?

If you like this you may like Chrome too, because that’s exactly how Google is trying to do things now.

Here’s the thing. I don’t want my browser to do things under the hood. It’s either protecting my privacy or it’s not. That means it’s either sending cookies to the website I’m visiting or it’s not.

When Firefox takes it upon itself to bypass cookies and collect information about me, that’s surprising and unpredictable and may fail in ways unique to Firefox. It’s one more thing to worry about.

If Mozilla wants to outright and overly protect me they can offer an “allow cookies” button like LibreWolf does, our how you can get with the CAD add-on (Cookie Auto Delete).

If they won’t do that then stick to blocking third-party cookies and get out of the way.

I don’t want Firefox to second-guess what I want to share with anybody, and assuming I want to share anything with advertisers, even anonimized data, is an abuse of my trust.

We don’t owe advertisers anything, btw. They’re a parasitic industry and the sooner it dies and we move on the better.

Exactly.

The reason most companies decide to contribute to FOSS is because it’s a lot more efficient to fix bugs and add/influence features upstream than to do it at your end of the code independently of everybody else.

Try using an addon like Basic Automatic Tabs Unloader, it will kill tabs completely a while after they’ve been closed. You can set the grace period as low as you want.

The Firefox native tab unloader is extremely permissive and only kills tabs when the whole system starts running low on RAM.

I get your point, but this feature is being pushed to users prominently, and it turns out it doesn’t do anything with the search results on both Youtube and Amazon, which are pretty much THE most likely sites you could think of, that anybody’s going to be using. That seems like a pretty glaring omission to me.

There are lots of bug reports already opened about it not working as intended on various large sites, including Facebook, Google Images etc.

It’s pretty obvious to me that such sites are going to keep changing their parameters because they’re privacy predators. If Mozilla is not willing or able to keep the parameter definitions up to date then this feature can end up doing more harm than good.

pp has been introduced 3 years ago and it’s a known tracking parameter. And it’s not some obscure website we’re talking about, it’s the largest website in the world…

If they’re not going to keep up with parameters after so many years I think it’s very misleading and potentially even harmful to keep offering this feature.

I’ve tried it on a fresh profile without any extensions installed and it doesn’t work there either.