Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
I think it’s a nonsense nothingburger “clarification”, esp. given the defaults firefox sets a priori on a fresh profile. even with the “no, don’t turn $x on” choices for things that it does offer those for, there’s still some egregious defaults being turned on
the cynic in me says it’s intentionally vague because they’re trying to, in advance, lay the legal groundwork for whatever the fuck they push on by default. my motivation for that thought is because of seeing the exact playbook being used by other services in the past, and it tracks with the way they’ve been pushing other features lately
Yep, the clarification doesn’t really clarify anything. If they’re unable to write their terms of service in a way that a layperson in legal matters can understand the intended meaning, that’s a problem. And it’s impossible for me to know whether their “clarification” is true or not. Sorry, Mozilla, you’ve made too many bad decisions already in the recent years, I don’t simply trust your word anymore. And, why didn’t they clarify it in the terms of service text itself?
That they published the ToS like that and nobody vetoed it internally, that’s a big problem too. I mean, did they expect people to not be shocked by what it says? Or did they expect nobody would read it?
Anyway, switching to LibreWolf on all machines now.
Whether the terms are abusable by design or by accident doesn’t really matter, you get is abuse either way.
How I wish we could have some nice things sometimes.