Pack it up boyz, goin’ back to books now. The internet is a fuck and everything will be an ad. uBlock Origin in all of its zeal and strength may not be enough to protect us from the endless and ceaseless onslaught that will be the internet to come.
Hear me out… what if everything you say and do, whether you consent to it or not, put on The Cloud and then regurgitated back to you as a quirky “AI” podcast?
WHAT’S DONE IS DONE, IT FEELS SO BAD; WHAT ONCE WAS CONTENT NOW IS ADHonestly, that’s where we’re headed. I don’t know if I’m going to be interested in scrolling through websites plastered by all the ads that are going to poke through the Manifest V3 ad controls.
Pack it up boyz, goin’ back to books now. The internet is a fuck and everything will be an ad. uBlock Origin in all of its zeal and strength may not be enough to protects from the endless and ceaseless onslaught that will be the internet to come.
2035 - E-readers force you to watch an unskippable ad for 30 seconds between chapters. All physical books are banned.
Nonono they’re pinky promising that they’re gonna be “””ethical””” so it’s completely ok now or something
Mozilla continues to do everything but make sure the product that people care about actually fucking works. Layoffs, investments in shit no one will care about (VPN, Pocket, AI etc.), and now wanting to become an ad company? Librewolf is a nice fork and all but the web fucking sucks now.
Even though not technically a rug pull, this is a rug pull. The end of real growth in the tech sector turned the internet into a cesspool. Not happy with stable returns these companies repositioned themselves as cybercriminals. They abused source contributors, collected donations as seed capital for launching for profits, and stole the data of billions. Taking inspirations from the villains in their beloved cyberpunk novels, they crafted a very real dystopia.
i just laughed at an ifunny meme i think it might be over for me
Don’t worry investors! There’s always more profit to be made finding more efficient means of killing kids in hospitals
Kind of reminds me of this shockingly based rant I saw on /g/ once that discussed that even smartphones set computing backwards.
we may have to start making excuses for the lack of terror
I tried to read the blog post but doublespeak and marketing crap gives me an insta-migraine so I checked Reddit.
Mozilla now doubling down on ads in Firefox
Did whoever wrote that pile of marketing gibberish actually say a goddamned thing?
Oh, they said something. They said they believe it’s right and proper for advertisers to intrude into our lives and steal our time and attention, and they’re going to help them do that while claiming to be the “good guys” by inventing some nonsense that “protects privacy” a little more. Never mind that everyone’s main objection to ads isn’t that they compromise our privacy; we object to ads because they intrude on our experience, waste our time and disrupt our ability to focus on the content we seek.
The obvious corollary to this is that ad blockers will eventually be crippled, just like on Chrome, no doubt with the same “security” excuse.
From another thread
“Advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of consumers” - founders of Google in 1998.
But the siren song of money always wins.
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god damn how they are making creeps like RMS and ESR almost look like good guys in comparison
it’s so fucking over changing my username immediately
S P O N S O R E D L I N K S B Y P O C K E T
Fuck the Web and pics/media. I’m going back to Lynx.
I guess it’s time to move to another browser very soon.
there are no other browsers. there are forks of firefox yeah but they ultimately rely on upstream code and if this causes people to flee from firefox mozilla will collapse*. there’s a couple of independent browsers that are progressing but they are still in very early stages of development and I’m sure it will be many years before either of them is ready for mainstream use
edit: *if google is forced to stop paying them as part of the anti-trust lawsuit
yep, we’re down to two whole browser engines. they’ve made the web so mind-bogglingly complex, it’s prohibitively expensive to write and maintain one.
i dont think there’s corporate profit in it either, not with google owning the space. so basically, we’re only going to get a better browser if china builds it :D
maybe we’ll get lucky and mozilla devs will feel a sense of camraderie and will start heavily contributing to the independent engines but I think that is very unlikely though lol
Does China maintain one?
@xiaohongshu@hexbear.net you might know is there an indigenous browser engine in china?
Not but I had a quick search and they have a chromium based browser called Twinkstar, so there’s that.
i dont think so i assume at best they maintain their own forks of firefox or chrome. I’m certainly not an expert on their tech though so i suppose it’s always possible they do
yeah… I assume this is them signaling their plans for if they lose that google default search engine money (which is likely I guess?)
This is so depressing…
fuck mozilla.
ill be using a fork until an alternative comes around.
did i mention fuck mozilla?
Everyimw I think about Mozilla I get sad. Like they’ll just make a random feature like pocket so that /maybe/ the CEO can get paid more than several million dollars instead of spending that salary on actually making the browser better
I wish more people who claim they support capitalism realized this. Capitalism even sabotages those businesses.
It starts off with something that only hurts people (no big deal, right?) like suppressing pay and hiring as little people as possible (if anyone at all) so no jobs are being made of course this is all in the name of MuH eFfIcIeNcY.
Then the business itself suffers. How many smaller businesses like local cafes could have opened second or third locations in their local area if rent wasn’t so damn high? All the jobs that could have been created are gone. Quality products? Sorry but that would be bad for shareholders? All the people porky hired? He’s laying off all of ‘em, he’s richer than ever he just doesn’t need that many workers! Time to replace everyone with AI or my friends and family!
TL;DR: Rent seeking is a disease that kills what little fun there could be found in capitalism.
One of their main problems is never thinking correctly in the aggregate. It is “good” and “efficient” for a single isolated company to exploit its pool of labor in this way.
But in the aggregate, it is as self destructive as the paradox of thrift.
With less and less going to more and more people, there become less and less consumers to prop up the machine. And it starts to collapse under its own stinking putrescence.
Come to think of it, I think porky is beginning to anticipate this. I went shopping the other day and I couldn’t help but notice how many posters and books at the book store advertised about how they will help “your business”.
I’ve tried to go to some open networking events to see if I could BS my way into a job, and some of the conversations seem to discuss a future where EVERYONE is their own small business owner and we have abolished the “worker”. I’m guessing the millions who couldn’t beat the odds have starved to death and the rest of human history is the rich selling to each other. And this is all seen as a good thing.
