I work at a big tech company in Silicon Valley and maybe 80% of employees use MacBooks… I was using Windows for a while, but I switched to Linux around a year ago. AFAIK there were only a few dozen people like me (running Linux, using Firefox as default browser) until we were all forced to switch to Chrome because of some security features in Chrome enterprise.

forcing users to give them a worldwide commercial license to everything you enter through Firefox?

That’s not what they actually did, though. They revised the wording to clarify:

You give Mozilla the rights necessary to operate Firefox. This includes processing your data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice. It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox. This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that content.

For example, if you type something into the address bar, they need to have the permission to take your content (whatever you’ve typed) and send it to a third party (a search engine) to get autocompletion results.

Here’s the blog post that clarifies the changes: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-on-terms-of-use/

Yes, because the definition of “sell data” varies by jurisdiction, and they can’t guarantee that their usage of ads (eg the default sites that appear on the new tab page) does not fall under the definition of “sell data” in some jurisdictions. In particular, California’s CCPA is pretty strict and some use cases that aren’t actually selling data still fall under its definition of “sell data”.

They changed the wording of their policy for legal reasons. They haven’t actually changed what they do. They already updated the text of the policy to clarify.

This is a very good comment. I’d give you Lemmy Gold if such a thing existed. Thanks for posting it!

It’s our first nice car.

Same. The only other car I’ve ever owned is a 2012 Mazda 3. I’m from Australia in an area with good public transport, and so I didn’t drive until I was 26 and living in the USA. Bought the Mazda 3 second hand for a pretty good price. The iX was a big upgrade!

Ive still got the Mazda, but when it stops working, I want to replace it with a small, sporty EV. I’m kinda sad we don’t have Chinese EVs in the USA, since cars like the MG Cyberster look pretty nice, don’t really have a US-made alternative, and are good value for the price (in Australia, it’s the equivalent of around US$72,000 including all taxes and fees). The range of cars is relatively limited (and expensive) in the USA.

I just got a BMW iX a few months ago and love it, so I’m very excited for Neue Klasse. I’ve got a three year lease. I’d love to get another, smaller EV.

This article is from July 2023… Is there any new news or is this just reposting an old article?

Do you have stamp duty in the UK? We have both rates (yearly) and stamp duty (once off during purchase) in Australia, and property taxes in the USA are roughly the same as rates and stamp duty combined into one.

At least on Facebook you practically always choose friends to add, groups to join, pages to follow, etc. A surprisingly large number of Reddit users just stick to the default subreddits.

They already updated it to make the language clearer. This is the new version:

You give Mozilla the rights necessary to operate Firefox. This includes processing your data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice. It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox. This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that content.

And they removed the passage that states they will never sell your data

That’s because the definition of “sell data” varies by jurisdiction, so they can’t make that claim (nor can any company that uses ads). In particular, it’s very strict in California’s CCPA, and includes third parties using data for analytical purposes even if no payment is made.

Firefox don’t store everything you type though.

This isn’t surprising at all. Centralized services are expensive to run at a large scale.

Honestly, people are overreacting to the ToS changes. Mozilla haven’t actually changed what they’re doing; they’re just removing text they legally can’t include since the definition of “selling data” varies by jurisdiction. It doesn’t always mean literally selling user data. California is very strict about it for example.

It’s way easier to do with Lemmy compared to Reddit. Because of its federated design, it’s trivial to subscribe to a stream of all activity in a community (posts, comments, upvotes, downvotes, moderation actions, etc) and do things when particular actions happen. Unlike Reddit, on Lemmy you can get a list of who upvoted or downvoted a post or comment.

And ideally your search engine of choice would be z-library or libgen

Several Steam games are DRM-free and don’t even need Steam to be installed to play them: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_games_on_Steam

For those games, you can just make a copy of the game directory.

This is what happens when someone who really focuses on UX designs your interface. Little details that not everyone notices, but the few that do really appreciate it.

Chromium is open source, so Google can’t cut them off.

I’ve never had issues with networking or drivers with my Brother printer. I don’t have any Apple devices, but on Windows and Linux I just use the drivers that come with the OS.