To me, this feels like a move to distract the target(s). If it is so it makes sense for both the US to be responsible (knowing such an obvious reference will be interpreted as originating from someone else. e.g. Russia) and also for its enemies (well, they want to draw attention).
"But sir, everyone will notice", said the operator, hesitating. "Use one of your tricks, I don't care", replied the commander. "Just get it done!".
"Mike, do you still have that script, the one with the American flag?" the first man whispered.
The UX/UI is very poor in my experience, since I'm a heavy user of Firefox Containers, know about the feature, need it, and never use it, but if you click the Containers icon and have some container tabs active, it will display a right arrow indicating there are more actions available where you can hide the tabs of a specific Container group so that you can unclutter the browser and access them later.
Sorry to say it but its been a few years since I started to consider FB "useds" lame (just to use your word, but I would describe them with harsher terms). It seems my side of the fence is growing in numbers pretty fast lately.
Reading the comments it seems nobody is concerned about this broad access leading to sexual harassment of women who are constantly exposed to glances and stronger forms of abuse and may vent in a private channel, or may have discussed intimate concerns with friends (now past conversations are also available). Nobody paints the picture of the boss reading girls logs? This is pathetic. US, land of the well paid slaves.
> ...and privacy (no idea what my device is sending).
This is where Libre/Open Source software comes in and why it plays a vital role in creating an ethical connection between people and softwares. There is literally no other way around this. Open code, secure transmission, harsh accountability on violations.
I'm really proud of what the Servo team has achieved and since I'm always looking at it from a big distance, I believe you are all able to judge this much better than me.
That said, this news do not sound good to me. Again, this is from a great distance, but from here, taking a future-focused team with great respect from the community, a team with an important and invaluable mission and that has successfully delivered over years, and shifting it (or forking it) towards complete uncertainty feels like a dangerous move that reminds me of the phone OS efforts.
Good riddance and may your vision be right. We need someone with Mozilla's goals looking deeper into VR so that we don't end up in the hands of the Big Corps in the near future, that is for sure, no matter if VR ends up being niche. How important that technology will be for the masses is yet to be proven and that's why I fear for the web, the battle proven real thing that faces the greatest threats from closed silos today. I don't feel it should be taken on equal terms with what is still fictional speculation. It needs full energy to make it to the future in good health. We already failed to deliver a beautiful, open and user centered internet to the future, we can't loose the open web.
>A new Linux kernel technology called BPF is at the foundation of Cilium. It supports dynamic insertion of BPF bytecode into the Linux kernel at various integration points such as: network IO, application sockets, and tracepoints to implement security, networking and visibility logic. BPF is highly efficient and flexible.
Can you provide more background on your blanket statement?
There are good and bad VPNs but ISPs are much larger corporations with direct ties to governments. I fail to see how a good VPN is worse than ISP + Governments.
Absolutely! And more, it may be that the users are getting more distracted and less productive, although it seems they don't recognize this possibility.
I have tried to use the new tab with everything integrated (another search bar? most visited/pin without reordering, pocket articles) and Mozilla snarks and tips (which I like and find elegant) the feeling each time I open a new tab is the same as when I open my phone with the intent of doing something and, after being bombarded with icons and notifications, completely forget what I wanted to solve in the first place.
It is horrible UX to me. At least I can disable it as I did and I love my empty new tab without any suggestions whatsoever.
Just to dig a bit deeper, I believe browsers chrome should be removed (or greatly reduced) and we should try something new. I don't want to see an endless list of open tabs or your shiny buttons, I want to absorb content. Using Vimperator/Pentadactyl/qutebrowser,etc in the past without system borders opened my eyes to how websites can be beautiful when they are not in a cage and I can't unsee the bloat.
The best Mozilla product of the past couple years, to me, wasn't FF Quantum, but Firefox Focus. I want Focus for the desktop. Amnesic, secure, fast, unbloatable.
I belive the tab generation constraints are a feature! They are meant to avoid the clutter most browsers become. Seriously, tabs are extremely overrated. Focus on something, delete it or archive it (Pocket, Instapaper, org, etc) and tag it, move on with a clean slate. This way you are always 100% focused on the task at hand. You leave archiving to archiving tools and not to tabs.
I agree on your last point though. Mozilla's heavy dependence on user data (and aggressive decisions like opt-out telemetry) goes against their speech. I choose to share with Mozilla if I trust them. But they understand "collected with permission" to be "poweruser data" and they want to suck information from the "other users". And that drug is a dangerous one when you point fingers all the time at others addicted to the same thing. In Focus it is plain wrong. "Here, we help you block tracking by everyone, since it is evil, except from us, cause sugar".
I like it so much that I can't help but dream with Focus for desktop. I realized most of the times the browser can be amnesic (maybe should?) and completely involve websites in private bubbles with mitigations.
The robust version of the browser ends up being the home of long therm, trustworthy pages.
On mobile it's completely unusable since they hijack the horizontal scrolling that would allow an unresponsive page like this to work it the first place. Bizarre.
To help mitigate this situation, users can and should start to use blockers just like we do on browsers. The best and less invasive I've found so far is Blokada[1].
It works as a fake VPN giving you the power use blocklists to filter all your connections.
Downside is that I believe in doesn't work if you already use a VPN.
So far it has helped me block 80.921 ads and trackers. As a bonus it saved me 242.79MB.
By default it whitelists Google Analytics, so if you don't want that you should disable the whitelist or configure it.
Fully agree with you. The old dark theme feels more comfortable (less contrast between colors). Each and every time I open the devtools now this thought crosses my mind.
There is also another reason to use this over an extension: privacy. Last I saw the browser extensions worked automatically for all pages, thus sending all your browsing habits to some random place. Quite serious if you ask me.
That said, they may have changed or I may have missed extensions that aren't pervasive.
"But sir, everyone will notice", said the operator, hesitating. "Use one of your tricks, I don't care", replied the commander. "Just get it done!".
"Mike, do you still have that script, the one with the American flag?" the first man whispered.