I don't see the problem. It was an app specifically developed to help people evade American law and attack people who work for the government, how is it a shock that they took it down?
I noticed this the other day as I (previously) used an old Firefox UA to get a more simple, streamlined legacy interface. I don't know why they did this.
Yet another internet manifesto that just ends up being "Use FOSS" and little else. Laughed at using Linux to "to make technology fun again"; Using Linux isn't going to turn you into a cyberpunk rebel who has beaten the powers that be.
I must also say I dislike the obnoxious "Look at how quirky I am!" 90s web badges on an HTML5 page.
Migrated to mailbox.org a month ago and now they do this? It's an incredibly ugly design that looks more childish than professional. Guess I'm going to have to look at migrating again.
Acting obnoxiously to piss people off makes you seem like an inexperienced teenager and distances more than "Serious Business Man".
I look forward for this to be taken to the logical extreme when a niche subculture of internet nerds change their entire online persona to revolve around scat pornography to spite "the normals", I'm sure they'll be remembered fondly as witty and intelligent and not at all as mentally ill young people.
> Today's analog seems to be that almost all nerds love anime and Andy Weir books and some of us feel a bit alienated by that.
Especially because (from my observation) modern "nerds" who enjoy anime seem to relish at bringing it (and various sex-related things) up at inappropriate times and are generally emotionally immature.
It's quite refreshing seeing that other people have similar lines of thinking and that I'm not alone in feeling somewhat alienated.
This is something I've always felt about design in general. You should never make it so that a symbol for an inconvenience appears happy or smug, it's a great way to turn people off your product or webpage.
Reddit implemented something a while back that says "You've been blocked by network security!" with a big smiling Reddit snoo front and centre on the page and every time I bump into it I can't help but think this.
Whenever I see an otherwise civil and mature project utilize something outwardly childish like this I audibly groan and close the page.
I'm sure the software behind it is fine but the imagery and style of it (and the confidence to feature it) makes me doubt the mental credibility/social maturity of anybody willing to make it the first thing you see when accessing a webpage.
Edit:
From a quick check of the "CEO" of the company, I was unsurprised to have my concerns confirmed. I may be behind the times but I think there are far too many people in who act obnoxiously (as part of what can only be described as a new subculture) in open source software today and I wish there were better terms to describe it.
I still use Windows 2k machines for Photoshop and other old Adobe tools that didn't have much in the way of DRM. It's an operating system that respects the user, it doesn't act as a babysitter.