> I've never liked habits that must be shared by those who just happen to be nearby
That encompasses most things people do, though. Part of living in a society is having to put up with the annoying things others do, and in exchange they put up with the annoying things you do.
> However, the idea that people have a right to remember and process what they see and hear in full fidelity is pretty basic, in my opinion.
If that's what we were talking about, I'd be much less bothered. But it's not. What we're talking about is people recording others and feeding that data to a third party.
> It is not up to you to deprive anyone their right to use them.
I don't see anyone saying that people don't have the right to use them. I see people saying that they have the right to avoid being anywhere near the people who use them and to disapprove of those people. Which is just as much of a right as the right to wear spy glasses.
I'm glad to see opinion seems to be swaying back in this direction. It was only a few months ago that the general sentiment seemed to be "times are different than the glasshole days, it's fine now."
It is unfortunate that a large number of users here are not hackers, not even in an idealistic philosophical sense, and will betray the public good for their own short-term gain.
I don't understand what you're upset about here. Firefox added this feature and, like all features, it gets in the way for some people. This article is explaining how to disable it if you're one of those people.
Nobody is saying the feature should be removed or scolding Mozilla for adding it, they're just explaining how to get rid of it if it annoys you.
The post is fine. People can disable whatever they want - I certainly do. But (at the time of writing) half a dozen comments were complaining about "useless cruft" being added.
Same as the AI integrations. There's obviously a market for them so FF has done some fairly sensible work to add them. And then people here explode like Mozilla has kicked their puppy.
Welcome to the amazing firefox user community. Out of 10 commenters, you hear 15 different complaints, very often contradictory but always stated very strongly as the absolute way that firefox should be (even when it lets you configure it that way anyway).
But in all seriousness, it seems to me that firefox has relatively more opinionated users, or users who are very specific/strict about their setup and what they want, and many are often fast and vocal in expressing opinions compared to the other browsers. I don't think we see posts around with people complaining about features in other major browsers in the same way (of course I could just miss them because I would pay less attention to other browsers).
I am pretty sure somebody must have complained about the ff quantum update too, back in the days.
> I am pretty sure somebody must have complained about the ff quantum update too, back in the days.
You're right, a bunch of extensions weren't working initially, large parts of the community were upset about that. Eventually, as more extensions were supported and new alternatives emerged, it eventually died out and was almost completely forgotten about, until you reminded me of it just now.
> You're right, a bunch of extensions weren't working initially, large parts of the community were upset about that.
Honestly, I'm still sad about that. It caused a hit to the usability and functionality of Firefox. Some of that has since been compensated for, but parity has not yet been achieved and probably never will.
But even with the functionality reduction, Firefox is still better than the alternatives for me, so I continue to use it regardless. Perhaps, eventually, something better will come along.
Except that none of the genAI companies are an improvement over Oracle. There's no win in Oracle's passing if it's just replaced with a different company that behaves no better, or even worse.
Three young men were riding modded e-bikes on a bike path next to the highway near me at I kid you not, about 75 mph. One of them wiped out. The bike path is not really optimized for those speeds. I have not seen any of them since. No idea why anyone would mod such a bike for those speeds. I can't imagine the brakes are designed for it.
> all while AI is improving, being used more widely and becoming harder to detect
It's becoming an untenable situation, not just for Spotify. I've simply started ignoring all new music that is performed by bands that are not already established, have a good reputation or that I haven't seen perform live. I can't think of any other way of reducing the chances of being duped.
Ibuprofen is a miracle worker for pain that is caused by inflammation, but otherwise has minimal effect for me.
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