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What fucks me the most about this is that Mastodon (the company) is a fucking german company.
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Specially because they have a vacuum cleaner called Dyson Big Ball
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also, as a personal note, I would advice you that when you don't understand the topic someone is talking about, avoid questioning the intentions of those who actually know the field.
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it's literally saying that they use your browsing history to serve you targeted ads. That's what 'selling your browser history' means. Advertisers couldn't care less about which pages you visit: what they care about is about your anonymized profile, so they can accurately target you with custom campaigns. And mozilla uses your personal data on firefox to sell advertisers those profiles. This is EXACTLY the same way Google or Facebook works. Google doesn't sell anyone your browser or search history. Facebook doesn't sell anyone which profiles you follow on instagram or who you message on whatsapp. They use that data to make a profile of you, and that's what they sell to advertisers, that's how they profit from your personal data.
And that's exactly what mozilla is doing with firefox.
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This is literally in the document:
"in some cases, when ads are enabled on New Tab, additional browsing and interaction data (including interactions with our advertisers) may also be processed locally on your device to measure the effectiveness of those ads; the shortcuts feature also uses browsing data locally on your device to select top shortcuts, some of which may be sponsored. Any such data will only be shared with Mozilla and/or our advertising partners via our privacy-preserving technologies on an aggregated and/or de-identified basis.
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That's almost exactly the same of how, for example, Facebook ads work.
Uh oh... This sounds a lot like money beginning to be a bit tight...
https://xcancel.com/soraofficialapp/status/2036532795984715896
Seriously, both Amaia and Rosalia are the ultimate proof that the best thing you can do with rich people money is to tax them so you can fund public conservatories/music schools where you can send a bunch of little girls so 15 years later you have some new Amaias and Rosalias.
Marco Rubio, about the European US bases:
“I said publicly, and I’ve said repeatedly, I’ve been a strong supporter of Nato throughout my career in the Senate and even now, and one of the advantages of being in Nato is that it allows us to have forces deployed in Europe and bases that allow us a logistical ability to project power in case of contingencies.
We had a contingency and some countries in Europe, some countries in Europe like Spain as an example, denied us the use of those bases for a very important contingency that in some ways, the denial of those bases actually impeded the mission, not severely but had a cost and in fact, even created some unnecessary dangers.
If one of the main reasons why the US is in Nato is the ability to have forces deployed in Europe that we could project to other contingencies, and now that’s no longer the case, at least when it comes to some Nato members, that’s a problem and has to be examined.”
Ok my dude. My bother in Satan. My fellow human being (allegedly). You are so close to see it but somehow still say this horse shit.
Spain gains between very little to nothing at all by having US bases in our territory. Sure, I'm sure countries in other parts of Europe may think different, but for southern Europe, US bases are A CONCESSION we make towards an (allegedly) ally. Because as lil Marco says himself, without the European bases, US wouldn't be able to project force in most of Africa or the middle east, so it wouldn't be a global power anymore.
Those bases are a fucking gift for the US. One that is a key piece of the US hegemony. So you are fucking welcome to pack up and fly your shit back to your side of the Atlantic. Leave the key under the mat when you go.
This whole act of "we are leaving because you don't go whatever we want" may do something with the Germans (I don't know). But with Spain? No one could give less of a fuck.
What I don't understand is how the fundies are not freaking out about him being the Antichrist. The dude is working hard into fitting the role, he looks straight from an "the tribulations" movie starring Kirk Cameron.
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At this point, if I was Iran, I would demand the annexation of Mar-a-lago just to start the negotiations
So, more insights into Mozilla leadership. If you go https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/leadership/ and look at Mozilla Corporation, they list 24 people between the executives and the "senior leadership" team. From those, 7 of them came from Meta.
Not bad, 30% of the leadership of the corporation governing over Firefox came from one of the corporations with biggest responsibility on destroying the open internet.
Little known??? LITTLE KNOWN????
it's called "the European Union". The Mutual Defence clause is fucking part of the European union treaty.
Little known? How the hell me, a fucking rando, have been posting "who needs NATO, we have the EU!" for a year but it looks like no journalist have ever even read about what the fuck the EU is???
ok folks, just to be clear:
No one. No one, sells your personal identifiable data on the internet. I mean, yeah, probably the dark web and super shady companies are selling your social security number somewhere. But not major corporation is selling your name or address to advertisers. That's illegal in the EU and multiple other places. They just don't do it and haven't done it for a long, long time.
What they sell is a profile of you. They don't sell "Javiera Mena, whatever whatever street, buenos aires". They sell "Woman, 35 y.o., single, 1 kid, Argentinian, languages spoken: English, Portuguese, Spanish, interests: [ music, hiking, horror movies ], countries visited in the last 12 months: [ Chile, Argentina, Spain ], most used websites: []... ". You get the drill.
Then, advertisers can go and say "we have this ad campaign, and we want to show it to Women between 30 and 40 years old, interested in hiking that have been to the Andes in the last 6 months. And bam! you get the ad. They didn't sold your name, but they very much sold and profited from your data.
This is how Meta operates. This is how google operates. This is how tiktok operates. This is how internet advertising operates, at large.
It looks like this is how Firefox operates now, too.
As someone who has played paradox games for half my life, I think Trump sending a couple of thousand airborne troops to invade an island in a zone where, in practice, the enemy has maritime superiority is a very good idea with no problems whatsoever.
Me: Lucas, stop playing with the napkin and eat your dinner, it's late already
My 4y.o. son: you are not the boss here, dad, King Felipe is.
I was waiting until he was at least 6 to have 🟥🟨🟪The Talk🟥🟨🟪 with him, but I think I'm going to have to do it already
I find it pretty funny that the murderbot audiobooks narrator is called "Kevin Are Free". Pal, are you a construct? Because that's probably the most nb rogue security-coded name that is possible to have in our timeline.
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But hey, who could knew that putting the VP of Marketing of facebook (2012-2023) in charge of Mozilla's new ad division would led to the very predictable outcome of Firefox becoming just another panopticon selling your personal data uh? WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING
"Pero señor presidente, el mercado inmobiliario se hundiria"
Mi gobernó estaría listo para actuar: si se diera el caso, se pondría en marcha un plan de intervención rápida que instalaría pantallas gigantes en la fachada de todos los ayuntamientos de municipios de más de 50.000 personas donde se proyectaría una estimación en tiempo real del precio por metro cuadrado de la zona, comparado con el precio medio durante 2026, con un puesto de palomitas abierto de 8 a 21 horas.
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You see, I try to ignore and forget about David Heinemeier Hanson, because I honestly used to admire him and for years he was my only tether to believing the system wasn't entirely rotten; he was the shinning guy on the hill that demonstrated that you could own a successful tech company and still be a good person who cared about the world and his employees over profit. And seeing him as he is today still hurts.
But from time to time, I see some reference to something outrageous DHH had said and I can't help myself: I end going and reading his blog for half an hour and being disgusted, outraged, and generally sad at what a repulsive person he has got to become.
I've been falling in this trap every six months or so, for years. And the devolution of our danish billionaire has been shocking, every time. From the first confusing "uh why does he sound like a jock version of Zuckerberg?" to "holy fuck is he now ranting against DEI just because someone burned him on Twitter?" to "wait he actually defends Tommy Robinson in public what the hell".
This was a guy who ten years ago was an example of "woke" online personality, devolving slowly into a neo-nazi in real life.
And well, today I fell in the trap again and found out that he already passed the "I'm just asking questions and saying out loud what everyone thinks" edgelord phase and went straight into the "open white supremacist" one.
Some excerpts from the attached post:Because the sacred cow here is not just that mass migration must stop going forward. It's also that millions who are already in Europe must go. Remigration has gone from a fringe concept to the mainstream discourse in record time on account of that realization.
Europeans can rediscover their roots, their ancestry, their ingenuity, and choose to channel all those healthy national feelings toward a grand revival.But first, we need to sacrifice these holy cows and prepare the feast. How is next Thursday for you?
This is, without even being a bit exaggerated, the mainstream discourse the original nazis had circa 1939. Until they invaded Poland, more than doubling the numbers of Jewish and Roma people under their control, their approach to both was remigration: their policy was to force them to move outside of Europe.
So... Which grand revival are we talking about here, David? Oh I see, a sacrifice of some sacred cows, you say?
The bastard don't even try to use dog whistles anymore.
This deserves to be in the fedi too
There is this weird idea that pops-up from time to time when the right "thinkers" want to justify the US murdering some people: "it's the only way to free people from communist dictators, is not that they are going to let you vote them out" or similar.
But the fact is that literally, every single communist dictatorship that have transitioned to a "capitalist democracy" had done it ... By voting in free elections organized by their local communist government.
On the other hand, every single communist government that have won an election and have the people support to start economic reforms, every single of them, have been blow up to smithereens by the US empire and its allies. Every single one.
The propaganda when you live in the imperial core is strong. But history is history, and the data is what it is.
Do you know who has been working on a mod to add murderbot-themed events to Rimworld? This guy!
To be clear, I'm not saying that Tumblr is going to die or anything, but it's odd that it has been down for 1+ hour
I think everyone left in Tumblr staff (the twenty people or so) is either in Europe, South America or US east coast, so something may have gone bad just when no one is at working hours anymore
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You know something funny?
Mozilla usually announces when they promote or hire a new exec in their corporate blog:
but, SOMEHOW, they seem to have forgotten to announce how they have hired two Facebook VPs as their new CFO and VP of product.
Actually, I can't find a single news item online announcing their new positions, if you don't go to the Mozilla "leadership" page and check their profiles there, you may not even realize they have given such key positions to people whose biggest achievements are "we created a lot of value for the shareholders by allowing advertisers to target suicidal teenagers and jew-hating people!".
Somehow Mozilla has forgotten to announce such excellent individuals are now steering their ship! whoopsie!
After receiving A QUARTER OF A MILLION NOTES in their announcement post in a single day, Tumblr has just announced that they are rolling back the changes on how reblogs work in the platform.
Sometimes protesting works, folks.
Oh such a lovely day.
My recommendation would be to also airdrop a few hundred tanks and other equipment that need a constant stream of supplies that have to be delivered by boat, for maximum effectivity
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ok, seriously, I think this is something people don't understand. No one (who doesn't want to risk legal troubles) sell your personal data. That's illegal in lots of countries. Google, Meta, whoever you can think of, don't sell you personal data.
What they do is take that personal data and create an ANONYMIZED PROFILE of you. And then, they sell that profile. So when an advertiser wants to target someone like you, they can go to google and pay them to make sure their ads are shown to you and other people that fits the advertiser's specifications. They use your personal data to target you, but they don't sell your personal data to their customers: Their customers don't need it, because Google et al already do the data processing for them.
Mozilla, now, is doing EXACTLY THE SAME. The only meaningful difference between them and google/facebook is that facebook stores your personal data (unsellable) and process it to create your (sellable) anonymized profile on their servers. Mozilla, instead, use your own computer to store and process that anonymized profile that then is sent to mozilla servers for selling. The way they use your data, the purpose, and the outcome are exactly the same.
The fact they are doing it locally in your laptop instead of in their remote servers is just privacy-washing, a way to convince people who don't know better that their advertisement technology is different and more ethical. But if you are an advertiser? you get exactly the same from Mozilla than from google (actually, since they have introduced programmatic ads and google runs the biggest programmatic ad exchange, I would bet that you are getting exactly the same ads, feed by exactly the same personal-data-sourced anonymous profile, than when you use chrome)
Looking online for the biggest hits of the new Mozilla's CFO and VP of Product is quite a trip, honestly:
https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-enabled-advertisers-to-reach-jew-haters
Holy fuck I've just seen the gif of the Odyssey trailer there the Ulysses gang fight a bunch of girls Giants in renaissance plate armor and what the fuck. This is Michael Bay level shit
Españoles, si me elegis como vuestro presidente, mi primera medida será establecer una ley integral de vivienda cuyo primer punto será un tope al precio de alquiler: sueldo mínimo interprofesional * 0.25 / 50 por metro cuadrado.
El segundo, la prohibición de la adquisición de bienes inmuebles de uso residencial a personas no físicas, más una moratoria de dos años para que liquiden sus propiedades actuales.
En tercero, cualquier vivienda que no constituya morada, será expropiada y puesta a subasta pública después de un año sin habitar.
Y a tomar por el culo. Hostias ya.
It's so odd how some people around the world changes their surnames when they get married. Like, what the hell, are you supposed to become someone new, with a new totally different family? bonkers.
(This random thought comes from just having to explain to my kid that "Christine" in "Bluey Christine Heeler" is not a surname because in some places they have one surname and two names instead of having two surnames and a name, as it makes sense)
I didn't realize the facebook execs Mozilla acqui-hired last year have been promoted! I was assuming they were still just heading the ads division of Mozilla, but oh boy, I fucking wish.
Now the former Senior VP of Marketing of facebook (2008-2022, the finest years of facebook) is the CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER of the entire Mozilla.
And the former VP of Ads in Facebook (2012-2022), is now the Senior VP of Product of Mozilla.
Let me repeat this:
The guy who used to lead the facebook team that was literally "advertising to teenagers based on their emotional state" is now the guy who decides the direction of Firefox as a product. But hey, let's keep giving Mozilla the benefit of the doubt uh? I'm sure these people-who-should-be-on-trial-in-the-hague are going to do great things for the community!
We just found this vertebra in the middle of our garden and I'm perplexed: this thing is too big to be from a mouse, or even a rat maybe, and... How the hell a single (1) vertebra ended in my garden? If it was from a mouse or similar it could have been dropped by hawk or owl, but I think this may be too big for that?
It looks like Perro Sanxe is going to be in the World Cup final, probably sitting next to Trump, and now I want a fancam pointing to them for the entire match.