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I've always wondered why someone may like to watch people playing videogames when you can play said videogames yourself.
It's not like the case of football, where you need friends and you need to go out to play. Thanks to matchmaking systems in games, you don't even need friends to play. You just click a button.
You overestimate how many people care about whether something is open or closed source.
I had a Windows Phone. It was bad. Even Microsoft apps were subpar. Skype app was simply unusable. They weren't dogfooding.
Also Google torpedoed it.
Supermicro never sued Bloomberg despite having lost a chunk of their valuation because of that article. Just saying.
Both Firefox's and Chromium's source code is completely open (it could be argued that Chromium's code is even more open since it's mostly BSD). Google can't stop you from modifying anything in the browser, and that includes the address bar. The language in which that component is implemented is irrelevant, and Google has certainly not chosen C++ to implement to address bar with the express purpose of making that component harder to modify.
I urge the mods to take a look at how often the "0x65.dev" domain, which is just Cliqz, ends up on the front page.
Of special note (and I bow to them) is how they've used such a domain name to spam their services. If they had used "cliqz.com" or whatever their actual domain is, fewer people would click, but when I see this I'm inclined to think this is some personal blog of a fellow software developer, and not blogspam of a shady ads company.
neighbors, the police (via ubiquitous public space abuse), every store, every mode of public transportation, and an increasing number of automobiles are all pointing cameras at you
Can be regulated, it is regulated in many places already (like, you can't store recordings for more than 15 days, or you can ask for your images to be removed).
companies like Amazon in particular are actively seeking to aid law enforcement access to all these devices
Good.
How is this a dystopic future? Unlike a telescreen, you're not forced to put a Nest in your home.
One or two generations of farming? By then they'll be retired (with a pension) or dead, do you think they care?
Welcome to the real world.
What if there's a bug in Mozilla's implementation at some point and DoH servers have to return a slightly different response for certain versions of Firefox? How will they achieve that?