With all due respect, Mozilla is now (and, for a while, has been) an ad company. When an ad company tells you ads are necessary, you should not trust them. Plenty of lousy things have been entrenched as social norms, but it is the job of the entrenchers to justify their existence… Which Mozilla is definitely not doing here.
If we take “unlimited unauthenticated API access shouldn’t be possible” for granted, I’m unfortunately not all that technically competent about what can be done next.
The first thing that comes to mind is treating website access and app access differently, maybe limiting app API access by default for people who haven’t logged in.
Or creating a separate bot API that’s rolled out across all servers at some point in the future… And I know federation could pose some serious chokepoints here so that’s where my speculation ends.
I have a few suggestions for development concerns off the top of my head:
* either immediately or, to prevent spam, after some time
…And attitudes like this towards privacy will keep Lemmy from progressing to a point where those issues will be fixed.
I have a fundamental problem with giant corporations scraping user data without user consent. That’s a system-level issue. It doesn’t become “good” just because they get to scrape without consent for free.
Lemmy has quite a few unfortunately invasive qualities of its own, including generally needing an email address from you (Reddit does not), having poor privacy and data retention practices, and generally being very messy with who gets to decide what happens with your data and how easily it can be scraped.
Sure, Reddit sells it… But Lemmy gives it to any web scraper for free.
To paraphrase Louis Rossman, he doesn’t need the fraction of a penny he’d get from you wasting your time, and if YouTube wants your money then they should earn it.
Live streams will stutter badly when a game is going on, something I have experienced in Firefox but not Chrome.
And of course Chromium has billions of dollars at its disposal while Mozilla can’t even accept donations from users for Firefox so it’s not exactly surprising that the browser with worse funding and management doesn’t run as well.
What’s the best browser to recommend to people who want to dump Brave but either can’t or won’t switch to Firefox, due to things like unoptimal behavior of sites like YouTube while playing games, for example?
The best I’ve come up with is Thorium, a de-Googled Chromium fork, optimized for speed.
You’ve got two options:
Extremely intended! They built a model to lie and a surrogate model to say the first model was being truthful.
They called it LaundryML.
Considering the news about OneRep… Definitely steer clear of Mozilla’s scrubbing service.
OneRep is what Mozilla uses to remove your data from the internet, if you pay them for Monitor Plus.
Didn’t somebody make a biased AI and a laundering AI to say it wasn’t biased, just to demonstrate how easy it was to do?
I’ve been working on something that can be used to manually identity mass downvoters and downvotees. It doesn’t happen as much as I’d expected, but there are some humorous exceptions I’ve been able to pull with my limited research.
JLDC(@)lemmy(.)byrdcrouse(.)com, for example, has downvoted someone else at least 15,000 times.
One of their favorite targets is Viking_Hippie(@)lemmy(.)world, who had accrued over 1,000 downvotes from them alone.
Linkerbaan(@)lemmy(.)world has received over 10,000 downvotes, including over 1,000 from AlmightySnoo(@)lemmy(.)world.
BTW, I checked both you and OP out. No mass downvotes that I could see, although my data set is incomplete.
Did you know the guy, or was the premise so outlandish that you figured it was more likely to be real than just a conspiracy theory? If I didn’t already know about the Orb, I would have said it was made up
Even in Star Trek, didn’t we just “find” the solution to gravity in space thanks to a lootbox left by a previous race that conquered the galaxy and then all died?
IIRC it’s the counterpart to OpenAI, Altman’s other project.
To paraphrase how he’d probably describe it: AI (his AI) will be able to realistically create deepfakes of you, so proving your actual identity will be important. So you scan your retina into this and your identity gets onto the Blockchain. Which will be stored safely on the Orb.
I mean… They’re not lying.
Ever seen Phantasm? Different orb, similar idea
I don’t think you have to worry too much about Mozilla running out of money. Right now, they’re spending it like there’s no tomorrow.
CEO salary: Mitchell Baker’s salary jumped by millions of dollars while Firefox browser market share slumped.
Shopping spree: Mozilla purchased two brand new AdTech corporations in the last year or so:
Throwing cash around: If wasn’t enough, Mozilla has earmarked $30 million for AI research grants, and another $30 million for random venture capital.
So in general, even if you could to donate directly to the development of Firefox, I think Mozilla should get its financial house in order before you do. (But you cannot donate to the development of Firefox, which is another reason you might want to consider withholding any donations.)