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0 pointsapostacy4y ago0 comments

> (While I'm talking about browsers and particularly mozilla, I'd just like to take a moment to congratulate them on finally getting their market share down below that of edge. They've been working hard at driving firefox into the ground for a long time now, and I'm sure they must be feeling very proud to have finally achieved this important milestone in their seemingly unending quest to achieve that holy grail of 0 users. So I'd just like to say: Nice work, Mozilla!)

Well said. And the more they fail, the more they double down.

But their decisions go beyond incompetence. They might as well be controlled opposition, actively undermining open web technologies.

They deprecated RSS support with very flimsy justifications, but they make supporting the latest DRM standards a top priority, because they are terrified of losing the blessing of Netflix.

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antisol4y ago

> They might as well be controlled opposition, actively undermining open web technologies.

Yeah, this pretty much sums it up. A conspiracy minded person might accuse them of all kinds of nasty shenanigans, especially given who their primary finding source is these days.

>They deprecated RSS support with very flimsy justifications, but they make supporting the latest DRM standards a top priority, because they are terrified of losing the blessing of Netflix.

Oh now you're just being cynical. RSS support was like 150 lines of code! A huge attack surface! And it was invented before the year 2000! That makes it useless!

As for DRM, I'm sure that encryption algorithms are much simpler to implement and have less attack surface than an RSS reader, and that Mozilla added this tech for my own good, and that I just don't understand how it's useful to me because I'm a dumb.

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