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mozball commented on Why can't we screenshot frames from DRM-protected video on Apple devices? daringfireball.net/2025/0... · Posted by u/ingve

mozball · 6 months ago

Apparently the same DRM is also enforced in the Apple Vision Pro as MrWhoseTheBoss discovered in his review. Except in that case, Apple's DRM pipeline extends all the way up to your eyeballs instead of your HDMI TV. That realization about what our dystopian future might hold for us seemed to hit him pretty hard :

https://youtu.be/5MhRZp2uunc?feature=shared&t=861

mozball commented on Mozilla's new Terms of Use causes confusion among Firefox users ghacks.net/2025/02/27/moz... · Posted by u/xiaoyu2006

mozball · 6 months ago

I am sorry but it is possible to write a privacy policy or Terms of Use that is clear, concise and reassuring to users. If a statement or word is confusing they can use the next sentence to clarify what that means. Whatever ambiguity in wording is clearly intentional on Mozilla's part. For what? Maybe for their new AI play (mozilla.ai) or their impending integration of "Privacy-Preserving-Ads" .[1][2]

Firefox is being enshittified.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30305770

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41311479

mozball commented on Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox blog.mozilla.org/en/produ... · Posted by u/pentagrama

ndriscoll · 6 months ago

I'm not sure what you think of as "official", but it's been in nixpkgs for years at least. You can also take a look at what it's doing. The librewolf repo itself is basically a collection of generally small patches. Mostly you've got patches to change branding and remove antifeatures, plus fixes like preventing pages from detecting you've opened devtools and enabling JXL support.

mozball · 6 months ago

I mean nixpkgs is the largest linux repo there is.[1] I think anyone can upload a package, similar to AUR :

[1] - https://repology.org/repositories/statistics/total

edit : By official i meant something backed by and guaranteed by a reputed org, like Debian's official repo, RedHat or Arch's Core Repo.

mozball commented on Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox blog.mozilla.org/en/produ... · Posted by u/pentagrama

raxxorraxor · 6 months ago

I would expect half of that is funding developers for their numerous different projects. How naive would that assumption be?

mozball · 6 months ago

You seem to be in the ballpark : "260 million for 'software development expenses'" : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Finances

Still that leaves ~ 400 million dollars for a privacy policy that doesn't read like it came from a sleazy big-tech company.

mozball commented on Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox blog.mozilla.org/en/produ... · Posted by u/pentagrama

xena · 6 months ago

I hate it when people get angry about this exact term of phrase. This is the legal definition of how user generated content works. What they're really saying is "if you upload anything to us, we're allowed to distribute it either back to you, or to other people". Yet another case of false panic.

mozball · 6 months ago

If people are misinterpreting mozilla's legalese, that is mozilla's fault for making these terms vague, broad and easy to misinterpret. Also i am not convinced your interpretation is correct.

Mozilla Firefox didn't have a 'Terms of Use' for 20 years. Why now?

Its quite clear they're seeking to expand their rights over their users data with their new privacy policy while simultaneously reducing user rights with this new 'Terms of Use'. i.e. Enshitification

mozball commented on Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox blog.mozilla.org/en/produ... · Posted by u/pentagrama

mozball · 6 months ago

Disabled auto-update until this is clarified or alternatives can be found.

I for one don't agree to these 'terms of use'. If people are failing to understand Mozilla's legalese, it is Mozilla's fault for making them ambiguous and difficult to understand. They earned 650 million dollars last year. Surely they have the resources for the task.

mozball commented on Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox blog.mozilla.org/en/produ... · Posted by u/pentagrama

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF · 6 months ago

In case anyone is unaware...

https://librewolf.net/

mozball · 6 months ago

Genuinely asking : Who is behind librewolf and why should i trust them? They don't seem to be available in any official repos yet other than ones they self-published

mozball commented on Apple's Best Option: Decentralize iCloud mnot.net/blog/2025/02/09/... · Posted by u/ingve

mozball · 7 months ago

Apple's 1 billion+ users across the world should protest this ludicrous overreach of power since the UK is essentially declaring digital sovereignty over all of them.

In the meantime maybe consider alternative cloud storage providers.

mozball commented on Apple's Best Option: Decentralize iCloud mnot.net/blog/2025/02/09/... · Posted by u/ingve

zero0529 · 7 months ago

Why so extreme, I believe they only will have to stop providing their premium iCloud service to the UK as this is the one that have E2E encryption and thus would be affected?

mozball · 7 months ago

According to WaPo, the secret order demands blanket access to cloud data from any user anywhere in the world : http://archive.today/79dA3

mozball commented on We need a real GNU/Linux (not Android) smartphone ecosystem old.reddit.com/r/linux/co... · Posted by u/neelc

seba_dos1 · a year ago

So, basically the Librem 5?

mozball · a year ago

Yeah. Basically a Librem 5 with the useability of Android.

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