Because they haven’t been affected by Manifest v3 yet. As soon as they realise just what Manifest v3’s all about…They’ll give a fuck.

I didn’t switch to anything, I simply never stopped using Firefox as there was no pressing need to do so.

Considering data harvesting, they can either pay me for my private data, or I’ll watch YouTube for free without ads.

Furthermore, the price of YouTube Premium is increasing.

Gotta ensure the greedy corporation makes record profits quarter over quarter.

https://9to5google.com/2023/07/19/youtube-premium-price-increase/

I got Death Stranding…

…It was free. The Epic client runs under Bottles in its own isolated sandbox, so it can’t spy on me.

If it’s free it’s for me, if you have to pay no way.

Precisely, because we have to look after the shareholders.

Considering that Netflix are planning on dumping their popular midrange plan in favour of either the more expensive and less popular 4k plan, or the ad ridden cheaper plan - This almost sounds like an attempt at swaying the masses, by making them believe that most Australians are somehow ‘happy’ to pay for the cheaper ad ridden plan.

Bend over Netflix, I’ll show you what you can do with your ad ridden bullshit, and I’m not paying more for the 4k plan.

Insync takes care of that. I even use Insync on Windows PC’s as it’s better than native cloud syncing apps from the likes of Google and Microsoft.

Firefox + uBlock Origin + PiHole = I’m wondering what all the fuss is about. I haven’t seen a single adblocker warning on YouTube yet.

Stop using browsers based on Chromium people, it’s not that hard.

FF w/uBlock Origin and + PiHole = No YouTube disable adblocking pestering here also…

I’m gen X, and I don’t care if I have to retire eating Dog food, I’m not working until I drop. The capitalists can bash that idea straight up their date.

If it’s good enough for the boomers, it’s good enough for me.

I still game using Windows 2000 on a Pentium 3 Tualatin based system.

All my retro games run no problem, Tiberian Sun is the shite.

Hell, as a small business owner providing third party IT technical support/repair services, I’d simply like to be able to advertise my actual technical support services in any form whatsoever on Google’s bullshit platform.

But for some vague and obscure reason, third party technical support and repair services are banned from advertising under Google Ads - Something that most definitely was not always the case.

At minimum they could provide a realistic and fair certification system for businesses that are obviously legitimate, assuming that providing ‘the best experience for the consumer’ really is Google’s main focus - They seem to be able to provide such a system for questionable online dating services boardering on human trafficking not a problem in the world.

But the shameless unspoken reality is that Google are only interested in maximizing the marketing presence of their own certified partners for the service and repair of Google’s own range of products, while burrying the little guy.

You can’t even configure the word ‘apple’ as a keyword search term in your advertising - The customer can’t see the keyword, it’s just a search term - But you can’t use the name of a piece of fruit in your advertising.

Fuck Google.

100% agreed. Imagine all of your reserves gone at such a vulnerable age and no recourse whatsoever. I thought your money was meant to be safer in a bank.

Not in all cases. In a number of cases elderly people no longer hold licences and getting to and from the bank isn’t terribly realistic.

Furthermore, I’ve personally dealt with a number of elderly people scammed out of their life savings because they unknowingly gave scammers full remote access to their phone - The phone that contains the banking app seniors barely understand, the same phone their SMS based MFA codes are sent to.

To add insult to injury, the banks are refusing to reimburse any funds lost as they state the client allowed an outsider to access their account and transfer all available funds.

Xwayland makes use of legacy features of X. If we were to compleately drop all aspects of X tomorrow, the Linux desktop would essentially compleately break and become unusable.

The fact is, at this point in time after 10 years or more of development, Wayland is still very much in a state of perpetual beta. At this point in time, and for the foreseeable future, Wayland involves compromises that make it unsuitable for many users.

Hopefully things improve in time, the problem is development is progressing at snails pace.

Except people do notice the change, as a workaround many still rely on certain aspects of X via Xwayland in an attempt to keep things running. Even Steam doesn’t support Wayland.

Fact is, Wayland’s been in development for a good decade or more, it’s still in a state of perpetual beta, and that’s a situation that isn’t likely to change any time soon.

Yeah, no such problem running Firefox here…

May I recommend KDE Neon. Canonical have ruined vanilla Ubuntu with their Snaps agenda.

Microsoft have Microsoft accounts, Canonical have Snaps…