you took amphetamine and weren't depressed suddenly? in my experience, that lasts a bit, but give it another decade or so. it tends to bite in other ways.
Going to depend on your dosages. I try to stay low and will take breaks to help reduce dependency. I actually really dislike the feeling of a high dosage and it does have negative effects at that end.
Also remember that everyone reacts differently to things. SSRIs work great for some people, but not for me. So it's worth trying different classes of medicines too but also to make sure that when having more dangerous ones. I made sure close friends knew too
This is like when people defend Windows 11's nonsense by saying "you can disable or remove that stuff". Yes, you can. But you shouldn't have to, and I personally prefer to use tools which don't shove useless things into the tool because it's trendy.
not to mention firefox routinely blows up any policies you set during upgrades, incompatibilities, and an endless about:config that is more opaque than a hunk of room temperature lard.
The difference is that on Windows all unwanted features eventually become mandatory, with no way of switching them off. With Firefox, it never happens.
> Mozilla hasn't had the benefit of the doubt for quite a while here
In contrast to Google Chrome? This is just FUD. Ublock Origin is still working and will be working. Full customization is still there and isn't going away. All of that is unlike in Chrom(ium).
This is not a thread comparing Mozilla to Google. This is a thread where we worry about how a non google browsing alternative stays alive. Of course none of us posting here trusts Google.
How is this different from linux? People happily spend hours customizing defaults in their OS. It’s usually a point of praise for open source software.
More than 1% of humans can read and create a file on computer. Others know how to read and use a search engine, and way more can be instructed by a LLM on how to do so.
I would say it is nearly as easy as installing waterfox or some other privacy focused fork of Firefox.
Even if we ignore things like "they're chasing AI fads instead of better things" and "they're adding attack surface" and so forth, and just focus on the disabling feature toggles thing...
... Mozilla has re-enabled AI-related toggles that people have disabled. (I've heard this from others and observed it myself.) They also keep adding new ones that aren't controlled by a master switch. They're getting pretty user-hostile.
Is it really in all 4 of those places? Just need to change it in the first two, right? I hate the new AI tab feature and wish they had a non-AI option.
There are already user-facing preferences for all of the AI features currently in Firefox. Some of them you don’t even have to go into Settings for, just right-click > Remove AI chatbot. They’re annoying, but I appreciate that they still need to be explicitly approved by the user to be enabled (for now).
i wonder how many years (decades?) out this is still. it would be wild to be able to run something like that locally in a browser. although, it will probably be punishable by death by then.
this group is known for exposés with mixed outcomes. good luck fundraising for awareness through hot media, but it seems like we have a long way to fall before anything happens.
> (window size, font size, and many other factors that do not even require JS
Yeah, they require CSS, which you can also block using noscript and other tools, if you want.
Also, while you might be more "trackable" to those who fingerprint, if you are blocking those cross origin or same origin scripts from loading you are already stopping some of that. You can even blacklist some known hosts completely in your browser's policy settings and prevent those requests from ever reaching their destination.
a (original?) version is from 1975 on john denver's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlvxvSDOrAA
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