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Feel free to correct me for grammar/spelling/factual/phrasing mistakes, even trivial ones. Thank you.
No, I only care about _my_ freedom to use the hardware however I want, not Apple's or anyone else's freedom. However, if people keep not giving a shit, my freedom will be more and more limited.
You're trying too hard.
Or, y'know, just put it in airplane mode or unplug the SIM card
A more reasonable take would be to find ways to reduce its costs.
Surely killing someone can be way cheaper than sustaining them for life.
it would be cheaper to just shoot
Ah, no, that's not how this works.
So you think that locking up people for the rest of their lives is less barbaric?
I assume they mean Arabs and others
Finally, a based move from Mozilla.
I have nine different browsers installed on this machine
Why?
Money.
What happened afterwards?
How old are you? Is it too late for you to live up to your potential?
Most people who criticise X like you have no idea what they're talking about. The parallels you're drawing are childish and indicate an extremely shallow understanding of the issues at hand.
Keeping it tightly controlled like that also makes it harder to crack
Can you elaborate?
Want/need to use DRM? You won't receive a response from Google/widevine
Thanks Google!
OSI
If you honestly think that the OSI were ever the "good guys", then do I have the news for you...
I know, I've read the rules. Still, I thought that this is an interesting exception since it's directly related to the content at hand.
for free
No, the site owner is usually gaining money from his users (through ads, tracking, etc). This is an incredibly dishonest statement.
Thank you for posting it, I wish that this becomes a trend on HN (and other forums).
Here's another way of looking at it: Does this page really need to execute code on its users' machines? Why is this such an acceptable thing in the first place?
Yay, another page that doesn't render at all without JS.
And then we sit and wonder how NSO Group is able to compromise all these machines with ease, and yes, they had/have browser exploits.
They still don't sell parts.
immoral
[citation needed]
Off-topic, but can someone tell me if this comment is phrased properly? I suspect that using "with" twice in the sentence is a little bit wrong, but I don't know how to correct it.
Thank you Moodles, for writing a reasonable comment amidst a torrent of unreasonable ones.
The "rewrite in some corporate meme language" would address this issue.
No it won't, the issues with v2 are with its design, not its implementation.
The difference is that criminals that use VPNs/Proxies can be easily caught, unlike Tor users.
VPNs/Proxies do this job just fine though, without the additional latency/bandwidth penalty of Tor.
Not a good analogy. Most usage of Tor is either unnecessarily paranoid people, criminal enterprises, and state agencies. In fact, so far the leaks (Snowden, Wikileaks, etc) are the only cases I've heard of where Tor usage legitimately helped.
Can you say the same thing about electricity?
Again, I'm not saying that Tor should be shut down, it's just unsettling to work on something that the majority of its usage is "bad".
I wonder how the author will live with himself knowing that he's directly facilitating all the horrible things that go on Tor. I know that I can't do that, so kudos to him.