Other countries should trade for our national parks - like a month's worth of eggs for Yellowstone - and then they can protect them from trump selling parks off to oligarchs and corporations. It would be a win/win situation: Americans (and the entire world) retain access to the parks, and foreign nations can collect the money those parks bring.
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On the contrary, I bet they feel eggcellent
Which parts do you disagree with? I'm not talking about websites selling your data after you access them through Firefox, I'm saying that now - with new definitions of "sale"/"sell" - that Firefox giving anybody any data for almost any reason can be legally construed as "selling". This isn't just the case for Firefox, it's the case for literally any web browser, and anything that can access the internet for any reason.
Yes, I thought about including the fact that Firefox does engage in ad-based revenue, and I suppose I should've, but Firefox is pretty upfront about this and allows users to opt out of targeted advertising - and this has been the case since long before this past week or two. These ads only appear on the "new tab" page, and only if you consent to seeing them. Anybody who's dropping Firefox for this recent controversy seens to be missing that. It's very possible (and personally I think it's likely) that nothing at all has changed from within Firefox.
NEVER
Any good recommendations?
The legal definition of "sell" has changed in several major markets, and that's (supposedly) why Firefox has recently changed their terms. The word "sell" is now ostensibly broad enough to include "give to anybody for any reason", including if you use Firefox for any reason where you would legitimately want and need Firefox to give ("sell") your data - for example if you use it for: literally any shopping or even just browsing store pages; any interactive (real world) maps where you may want to use your location; any searches where you want local businesses to be listed; any search engine that may want to use your location to aid in results; etc. etc. etc.
Any legitimate exchange of data can now be construed as "selling" because of the new legal definitions, regardless of if anyone is actually selling anything.
It's very possible that nothing has changed - that Firefox hasn't started selling user data, they're just updating their terms (and this app listing) to reflect the changes in the legal definitions of "sell".
Lemmy feels like old Reddit, with actual useful information and conversation. I'm definitely enjoying it more so far, but I do miss the sheer volume of Reddit, and also some of the silliness
Boost did stop working initially when Reddit moved to kill 3rd party apps, but it started working again pretty quickly if you were a mod (of ANY subreddit, even random ones that were created and instantly privated with zero members or content). Same for other 3rd party tools/apps.
Reddit sucks so much dick that any mod worth their salt on any major subreddit used/uses 3rd party apps for modding (because official Reddit was/is inadequate).
The API pricing change would've killed 3rd party mod tools, so a bunch of mods threatened to quit - which would (in theory, but probably actually not) fuck over a bunch of major subreddits right before Reddit's IPO. Reddit capitulated and allowed users (only if they were mods) to make API calls with 3rd party tools/apps. Presumably Reddit did this begrudgingly, as the best option to preserve value before their IPO.
Boost and other 3rd party tools were down for a relatively short amount of time (I think a few days, or maybe a week or two? I don't remember, but it felt quick) before coming back online. I've been using regular unpatched Boost ever since then, but it stopped working about a week ago. I thought it was just me, but apparently it's stopped working for everybody?
That said, I'm not convinced it's Reddit that's behind this, I think it may be Boost's developer, Ruben Mayayo. I get a 403 error now on Boost for Reddit, and the app - for the first time ever - showed me an ad for Boost for Lemmy. This can't be a coincidence, and Ruben must know that Boost for Reddit has stopped working. I'm curious if it's Reddit taking further action against 3rd party clients or if it's Boost's developer finally and decisively killing Boost for Reddit and notifying users of Boost for Lemmy. Maybe Ruben just wanted to finalize his split from Reddit and so he officially killed his app's access to Reddit's API?
Also yes, you could change the universal Boost API key to your own personal API key, and that would allow you to keep using it (or other 3rd party tools/apps).
What has Newsome done? All I know about the guy is that trump hates him
Zero DMs for me and now I'm sad
Create a bunch of fake reddit accounts (or pay for some botting) that brigade the sub with pro-trump/musk rhetoric. If your users have brains, they'll get pissed and start shit talking the two, saying that trump & musk are existential threats to america and the world, and it's basically guaranteed that someone will say something like "can't wait for those dumb tubs of lard to expire". This is apparently now against Reddit ToS and can get a sub shut down (see r/WhitePeopleTwitter) so just let it get temp banned by admins, then do it again and get permabanned, or use the temp ban (or just warnings) as justification to close commenting and/or posting
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Yep. Brackets by me:
The dumbfuck doesn't show any contrition at all, he just says oops I didn't know. When this topic came up in the interview, he didn't admit any regret or that he put himself (and his wife) in this position - he just says that the government is wrong to do this to him/his wife, and that they should go after other illegals instead. What a piece of shit.