People 100% aren’t going to pay to access every random website they want to visit. So what you’d end up with in a world without ads is only the big corporations being able to run a website.

I'm not so convinced. I run a website with zero ads or tracking and I'm not a big corporation.

I've been sticking with FF proper since it has the sync stuff that's easily used. But it sounds like it's about time to set up a sync server and run a FF fork.

Also, yes Mozilla, I'm sure the reason people aren't switching to Firefox is because it lacks good advertising support.

100%, Google is leaning into Mozilla to make this happen.

Fuck the ad-based Internet right back to the putrid hole it came from. The second uBO stops working is the second I stop using that browser.

I wasn't always this way. I used to not block ads to help support creators. I used to have ads on my website 15 years ago. And for this transgression, I sincerely apologize.

Now I make money at my day job and everything I post, which is a substantial amount, is free and untracked (except for 5 days of web server request logs).

Sure I can't write full time with this model, but we're billions of people. If we each just made 10 minutes of good content a week, that's more than we can possibly consume.

And I'd rather have more good content than I could possibly read than the mountains of AI-generated SEO tripe that advertising brings.

My parents are in their 80s and this crap will push them to Linux.

We found no correlation between price and protection, with the highest-performing helmet being one of the less expensive, retailing at around £50.

What a scam. I'll bet the same thing happens with motorcycle helmets.

I switched to in-person teaching a couple years ago and am glad I did. It's been a challenging time as an instructor finding ways to make sure I'm added value.

Not that; I just write free books on how to write software.

Supporting on GitHub. Just a few bucks a month. It won't take many of us to get to $175/mo.

I do pony up for other services (not YT Premium because I won't give Google any money) and support a significant number of creators via Patreon, giving them more money by far than they'd ever see from me from ads. And I've spent thousands of hours on my own dime making written content and giving it away for nothing with no ads or tracking. So yes, I agree.

It should never be illegal to link to infringing content in the US. First Amendment should apply if they have any sense.

We need a competitor badly.

I like the legal antitrust approach to get them to stop this.

Reminds me of sdf.org.

Another one I've seen out there that seems decent is PocketBook, but I've never bought one. You might be able to find a used one for $100.

We were there 6 days ago. Mostly fine except they couldn't change the monitor at the gate to show the proper destination. I wonder if it was this!

I'm the same generation. My flowchart is: known contact, answer. Unknown contact, voicemail. Automatic VM transcriptions are great.

Yikes. Back to Newegg for me!

I don't know the details behind it, but it sure takes its sweet time figuring it out. I've let it sit 20 minutes before giving up.

Yeah. Under a second to the launcher, and (just timed it) 6 seconds to load and run my existing world.