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Thunderbird Team Unveils Thunderbolt Self-Hostable AI Client (linuxiac.com)
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[–] 28 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If anybody needs to know: this is why you should not not donate to the Mozilla Foundation. No money goes towards Firefox or Thunderbird through it!

The products I care about:

  • Firefox is funded by Google
  • Thunderbird is funded by donations

The groups I don't:

  • "Thunderbolt is funded through a dedicated investment from Mozilla",
  • ...and Mozilla is funded by separate donations too.
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  • [–] 21 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    You opened my eyes

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  • [–] 24 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Keep in mind that that there is a strong likelihood that XLE is a demagogue and is dedicated to shitting up any mozilla/Firefox/TB thread with lies and gross exaggerations that function as lies. XLE almost certainly does not use Firefox or Thunderbird (it wouldn't make sense considering their posting history).

    XLE claimed that "Firefox is bursting at the seams with ads." This is clearly not true.

    As an example they cited "sponsored search suggestions", which to my mind isn't a big deal and can easily be disabled. For the sake of transparency, I will note that I've never got them and it seems I can't enable them even if I wanted to (likely due to my region?)

    XLE also claimed that the on-hover sponsorship notice for the Firefox weather widget as an example of "Firefox bursting at the seam with ads." I haven't used the default new tab page in a decade plus, so maybe this impacts how I see things. From my perspective, an on-hover sponsorship notice for optional widgets is a misleading example for their claims.

    You can make up your own mind and read our conversation here: https://piefed.social/comment/10831188

    P.S. I am not saying you shouldn't cancel your donation. I've donated to Mozilla Foundation before and cancelled, so I would be a hypocrite for defending donations to MF.

    I also have a more hard-line position on MF; they've turned into a shitty, corrupt American tech company imitation. All open source foundations based in the US are suspect by definition (including Linux foundation, Debian foundation etc.) as US society is in a state where it is extremely unlikely that crime and corruption will be addressed in the next 20 years (I've lived in the US for several years, as well as other countries across NA, Europe and Asia).

    But that doesn't mean you should trust an individual like XLE, who muddies the water with bombastic BS, while at the same time defending Brave; an American criminal gang that was caught re-writing referral URLs for their own financial benefit.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    defending Brave

    Instant indication the person has either swallowed a lot of marketing kool-aid, or is a grifter.

    I never pass up the opportunity to point out that Brave is basically a scam

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    You linked to me praising Waterfox, which is a Firefox fork, for blocking ads by default with a method that's faster than with extensions.

    I listed six sponsored things people will see on a new Firefox installation, things you admitted you don't see because you run a "heavily customized" copy of it. You can claim I don't know what I'm talking about, but things don't stop being ads just because you don't see don't mind them.

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  • [–] -4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I stand by what I said. I will let people read my comment in this thread and our comments in this post (there are multiple threads that are relevant):

    https://piefed.social/c/opensource/p/1952631/waterfox-to-integrate-brave-adblock-engine-with-search-ads-enabled-by-default

    Let people make up their own minds.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    What are people supposed to see? That you nitpicked my statements, accused me of not addressing every nitpick, and when I finally did... You decided to leave and then continue the argument here (not addressed to me but specifically complaining about that detail)?

    Seems way more like you're just dredging up days-old personal drama disguised as a callout post.

    For the record, I'm not a fan of Brave and its bigotry and unethical practices, and that extends to every company that engages in the same.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Honestly it's been what.. 8? Years since chrome could play HDR..

    Firefox

    Just make it work already.. it kinda does on Linux if you enable experimental features just..do it

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Every time I have tried enabling HDR on a monitor/TV/game, I end up turning it back off soon after. I can never seem to find a good balance of bright and dark; one of them is always off for me.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I got my first OLED monitor a few days ago, and was excited to try HDR out.

    I have no idea what HDR is really supposed to look like, but Windows’ version or implementation of HDR is garbage. My icons on just my taskbar looked so incredibly washed out I worried I made a mistake getting the monitor itself.

    Turned off HDR and noticed colors popping again. The hell is so special about HDR..? lol

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