Mozilla Starts a Fire …fox

[@techlinked]

hey guys its riley from the video to be honest i'm panting a bit because right after i crashed the WAN Show I ran all the way home to tell you to sign up and upgrade to Grammarly Pro to level up your productivity: grammarly.com/TL10 , IT WAS IMPORTANT

[@LeHoax]

Keep up the grind, my guy

[@Kane0123]

Did Grammarly recommend using Linus instead of Riley? Cop that King Riley

[@powertechnical]

According to the video, you're Linus.

[@tjsbdgdnrndbjdndkendb1653]

Was the comment written by Grammarly?😆

[@TruthDoesNotExist]

I hereby declare a reuqest to have Riley co host a wan show

[@Nabee_H]

There should be a law mandating authorization by a user to continue services after a price change. Companies shouldn't be allowed to just start taking more money whenever they feel like it.

[@Thumper68]

I’m pretty sure there is a law against that. Unless you agreed to it in terms of service which nobody reads 😂

[@custos3249]

Used to be a thing in the US around the 50s we called, confusingly, "price control." Seems a bit too on the nose - probably why we got rid of it during the last era when the American dream was still possible.

[@TheGamersRace]

​@@Thumper68That's what he's saying, you can't just add that to your TOS. Plenty of other things already in a TOS are already illegal, they're just hoping you don't read it and don't fight them in court about it.

[@Thumper68]

@@TheGamersRace I’m pretty sure they can put it in terms of service but when there’s a price change they have to make users aware of the change by email or something like 30-60 days prior so people can stop service payment if they want

[@notoriousglez8180]

Gaddamn u got me on the terms and services lol. However we need a mandate for explicit authorization for price changes outside terms and services

[@Halz0holic]

I'm fine with ads as long as 1. There is a limit on how many ads a page can show, and a limit on how much area an ad can cover. 2. There are no personalized ads, and no user data collection, no browser fingerprinting. 3. Ads are vetted by ads providers and ads providers being legally liable for scams using their service. 4. Ad never plays any media, muted or not. Video ads should be limited to video platforms, audio ads should be limited to audio platforms. 5. Hard limit on length of the ad that is proportional to content length itself.

[@illitero]

Video ads are a genuine crime because they not only disrupt your experience and potentially interrupt media you're already consuming, but they steal resources without consent: data and device processing being the biggest ones. And the frame refresh times means it's continual.

[@Warp2090]

6. they arent weird or annoying as heck ( like 99.99999% of ads are nowadays )

[@Raylightsen]

As long as adblockers blocks every single freaking ad, firefox can do the way you said. I will never tolerate internet without adblocker.

[@Twentydragon]

KZbin regularly violates 1, 2, 3, and 5. I started using an ad blocker when KZbin added overlay ads, and while those have gone away, their general behavior regarding ads has only gotten worse. And that's just on PC. On console and mobile it's downright intolerable.

[@sgky2k]

Pretty good

[@FengLengshun]

0:02 Linus is looking a little different today

[@Anton_Pham]

yeah he does look a little different.

[@BaconEater666]

AGAIN???

[@tyelork]

Yeah, I'm surprised Linus grew out his mustache just for this video!

[@bill_and_amanda]

I saw him on WAN show tonight and he also looked a lot like Riley

[@NotGabe001]

I was just about to comment that

[@altrogeruvah]

I'm a Firefox user, but let's be honest here. Mozilla has one single thing going on for them: not being Google. So, maybe it's a good idea to know their audience, read the room and don't overplay their position. I don't know how they keep missing the mark, they literally have one job to not mess this up.

[@kjeksklaus7944]

they are almost completely funded by google.

[@altrogeruvah]

@@kjeksklaus7944 I know, the 400m$ deal to have Google as the default search engine. I was referring to Firefox not being a Chromium-based browser, which that in itself is the only thing they have going on.

[@Axemark38]

Correction: Mozilla HAD one single thing going on for them: not being Google. Mozilla lost that the moment they bought an ad company. They now have every incentive to act exactly like Google and violate our privacy for ad money. They're already doing it by putting in search telemetry and turning on Privacy Preserving Attribution by default. It's going to get worse and as an ex-Firefox user, I won't be part of that.

[@balsalmalberto8086]

Wrong. They are also not Microsoft last time I checked.

[@yourlocalit1701]

Libre wolf ftw

[@Vladimir_Kv]

How corrupt were the people who signed under "CEO didn't mislead shareholders because everyone should understand that CEO's words were grossly exaggerated (also known as "a lie" in layman's terms)"?

[@jeffw991]

Don’t get sued for defamation by Elon for calling his puffery a lie! That would be very on-brand for him. And for the US legal system, really.

[@calvin7330]

Also "our debts don't count because we changed our name"

[@scopie49]

It's no different than food advertising having false advertising right on the packaging and branding. Their defense is "no reasonable consumer would take these statements as fact."

[@Martial-Mat]

Utterly. The court is owned by pro corporatists.

[@devanarayans5131]

yeah , i'm gonna sue apple, cz i see no island in my iphone, yet they claim there is a dynamic island.

[@DemonixTB]

fun fact NOYB is just one guy (privacy lawyer) and he has almosz single handedly caused three rewrites of entire EU privacy agreements with the US because they weren't being followed by US companies, and had weak oversight mechanisms

[@Gaius__]

It's not only one guy, but yes, it's a rather small organisation, in terms of staff.

[@nen848]

Mozilla's always been a little bad at getting their point across to the average person

[@Skyflairl2p]

I mean its also a point that the average person's opinion often fall short of sane nowadays. And the "NO ADS!!" crowd simply don't understand that nothing is free and their favorite websites (which are obviously free, as they are clearly cheap) would cease to exist without at least SOME advertisement. lol.

[@NihongoWakannai]

​@@Skyflairl2p same thing with youtube. People are like "how dare they show ads to me!" but then also say "lmao why would I pay for premium?" Mfs just think the internet doesnt cost money to run.

[@SAsquirtle]

@@Skyflairl2p couldn't care less. let the normies watch ads while I enjoy my private ad-free internet LOL

[@Skyflairl2p]

@@SAsquirtle I for the love of god hope this is satire.

[@SAsquirtle]

@@Skyflairl2p it is absolutely not.

[@Razear]

The TikTok-ification of KZbin with the introduction of shorts has made the platform exponentially worse. But at least they had the sense of segregating shorts from normal uploads so that our feeds don't get polluted.

[@bbrainstormer2036]

And then they make it so that you can't hide the shorts in the recommendations

[@Code7Unltd]

@@bbrainstormer2036 Not without scripts, anyway.

[@samwilde8311]

Main reason I use a modded client. If I couldn't get rid of shorts, I wouldn't use youtube

[@NoVeMgoRe]

@@Code7Unltd Filtering that shit out was the first thing i did right after YT barfed shorts on us.

[@bbrainstormer2036]

@@Code7Unltd Yeah, but that's kind of cheating

[@Daktyl198]

Wordpad was actually a GOAT piece of software, and it really sucks that it's getting removed. It could open, edit, and save basic .doc and .docx files so you didn't have to pay for Office 365 (which is why it's being removed). Additionally, it was really great at saving RTF files in a way that made them really small compared to other RTF editors. I used RTF extensively in a team and it was nice.

[@Anon-y4w]

what kind of storage are you using if you're concerned about the size of a text file? Floppy disks?

[@deusexaethera]

You're the only person who ever really liked WordPad, sorry to say.

[@nielsbishere]

​@@deusexaethera untrue, I like it too. It's my main IDE for programming

[@hanifarroisimukhlis5989]

Dude why are you using RTF? Just use Markdown, it works great, usable even if you don't have fancy editor like Obsidian, and you can render it to HTML or PDF.

[@Splucked]

@@deusexaethera Are you insane? (rhetorical question)

[@hpenvy1106]

I hate that the world is growing ever more dystopian. We need to stop big tech

[@Wistbacka]

Bladerunner was right all along....

[@MrGamelover23]

"Smells like communism." -the people who complain about big companies, but then call you a commie for suggesting that companies shouldn't have been able to grow as big as they have.

[@kuil]

Recency bias.

[@privacyvalued4134]

Stop giving big tech money. Find innovative smaller players who aren't sellouts and give them your money instead.

[@XA--pb9ni]

​@@Rahul_Sastrythat is wrong.

[@the-answer-is-42]

The problem with PPA is not the tech itself, it's that advertisers can just take that data and then continue as before. That an alternative that respect privacy exists doesn't mean the advertisers are going suddenly respect privacy, it'll just end up as another source of data, along with the existing, invasive ones. The only way to realistically change things is unfortunately with government regulations or other heavy handed approaches. If that happens, PPA can be great, but without regulations, it's just another data source.

[@dennisjungbauer4467]

I'd agree, but then again it's a start already and if it works well, it could be a good example for other companies to follow. Or you don't think so?

[@the-answer-is-42]

@@dennisjungbauer4467 Yeah, I just think it's a good start to half the solution. Without being forced to do otherwise, I don't see advertisers abandoning their privacy violating methods, even when alternatives exist.

[@Cross31415]

It's a lot easier to ask regulators to change things if you can point to a functional alternative/compromise rather than talking in hypotheticals. (At least in reasonable non-kleptocracies)

[@the-answer-is-42]

@@Cross31415 Fair point. I guess I just don't want us to forget we need the other half of the solution as well.

[@syndaquil4838]

​@@Cross31415 yeah, I agree this is the long term answer, but it should have been Firefox's marketing point since the summer. Hopefully this is in their plan, but I didn't see it laid out super clearly yet

[@marvinpanvan]

When Netflix upped their fee by 1€ here they had a huge pop up where you had to agree or disagree, should’ve done it like that

[@shafiq_ramli]

0:01 - NO HE'S NOT!

[@whollymindless]

"Corporate Puffery."

[@Gaurav-cy5lu]

So a lie.

[@musaran2]

Unfortunately it is the norm, so almost all would be found guilty. Also, in PR the line is very blurry.

[@vinyfiny]

@@Gaurav-cy5lu Apparently it's not lying if a corporation does it (or it's representatives)!

[@runejonassen3893]

Why KZbin doesn't allow users to stop shorts altogether if they are so inclined is beyond me. And while we are at it. A fast local ban (in lack of better english) button so every time you happen upon some shit you never want to see again you can EASILLY stop them. A button please "BAN"...

[@hubbabubba9849]

Samsung should be forced to repair/replace all of the devices bricked by their faulty update, including any necessary data recovery. I'm sure the counter-argument would be that the devices are too old/out of warranty and that Samsung can't be expected to support devices forever but, in this case, that should be irrelevant. Common sense would say it was Samsung's fault the devices got broken, not the users. If someone destroys your property, whether via negligence or malice, you would be expected to receive compensation. On the flip side, if Samsung is not required to provide compensation to affected users, then who's to say that they, or any other company, might not begin to continually "accidentally" bricking older devices into the future? Planned obsolescence, not that it should exist in the first place mind you, should be exactly that: A plan. An expectation of when something will fail, not a deliberate mechanism.

[@nightwishkid1]

Yeah, my wife's S10E was part of this, lost some pics etc. she chose from sam. A35 or Pixel 8A. She got another Samsung to stick with what she knows, kinda wish I knew about this then would have told her the Pixel instead >.>

[@AlguienMas]

And this is why I never EVER install updates for and software I use. Whether it's some random program or a full blown os, phone or pc, don't care

[@OriginalPiMan]

It's true that Samsung can't be expected to provide support forever. But this problem was caused by their software update, which unambiguously says that these devices are ones they still provide support for.

[@winzyl9546]

​@@nightwishkid1whats the difference? Everything pixel has is by default forced unto any samsung because "android is open source".

[@ebiooo]

5:00 woohoo yeah I love an era of fake videos with fake audio that definitely won’t be used maliciously by anyone ever😍😍

[@canismokethis1812]

every time i see au videos the only use cases that come to mind are horrible

[@ejtaylor73]

They've already used AI to create malware.

[@willbe3043]

It is in fact being used maliciously RIGHT NOW!

[@sh4dow666]

Tbh it's too late to worry about fake news anyway (just look at how many people take this QAnon crap seriously), so I don't really see any major problem with that.

[@VMYeahVN]

@@canismokethis1812 That's because those are the only use cases for this tech 💀

[@supernewbie694]

wordpad going away annoys me quite a bit, it was a really quick to launch word processor that had the format of a page, not like notepad. libreoffice is good, but wordpad was way better for that quick check of some notes then close, or quick draft for a copy-paste text.

[@swordsman1137]

Yeah no Ms word version that able to launch in an instant like wordpad

[@giorgos-4515]

There are probably notes apps that could help with this im sure, any more lightweight editor could fit.

[@theexaustedslime]

I'll recommend obsidian.

[@GoblinArmyInYourWalls]

​@@theexaustedslimewhile I adore obsidian, it's a bit heavy for many people's usecase

[@illuminoeye_gaming]

agreed im gonna miss it.

[@HasanAkdogan]

Basically Mozilla: We didn't start the fire It was always burning, since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it

[@AnonymousMod.]

... That's really not wrong

[@Ractrin]

Linus suddenly wearing glasses and sounding like some guy from Apple... strange turn of events XD

[@dragknot777]

you mean Riley?

[@BTAxis]

@@dragknot777 No, that's Linus. It says so right at the start of the video.

[@Ractrin]

@@dragknot777 Someone didn't pay attention to the first 3 seconds of the video

[@WayStedYou]

@@Ractrin the editors?

[@Markus-r6g]

8:25 to target people who dont by phones and just use the one they have till it breaks, they "accidentally" broke numerous of these phones to force an upgrade and extend their target demographic

[@nightwishkid1]

Yeah, my wife's S10E was part of this, lost some pics etc. she chose from sam. A35 or Pixel 8A. She got another Samsung to stick with what she knows, kinda wish I knew about this then would have told her the Pixel instead >.>

[@WheissRS]

Back in around May there was a firmware update on Samsung devices which bricked tons of budget models like the A23, in the end Samsung did give replacements for those affected, the problem is that those same models are most popular in less developed places and there were still many who don't have easy access to worldwide shipping to get one straight from Samsung and many stores didn't recognize nor want to break their backs for this hassle.

[@ShadowKindjal]

Linus looking a lot like Riley

[@chrism6880]

Ad servers actually don't need any user data. If you advertise actually good products, it will find an audience.

[@giorgos-4515]

What we might see is content creation winning over conventional advertising, at least for quality products. Junk will always be sold through cheap low quality ads that people are forced to watch.

[@vgamesx1]

Exactly this, a company with a good product and confidence in it, will send it out to real people who review/talk about related products and as long as it seems genuine people will go buy it, for example Ecoflow I think started as a kickstarter and now has many successful products by simply giving them away to tech tubers.

[@triton62674]

Well no you need analytics to know how well it's performing

[@RiverShock]

Knowing who does and doesn't like your product is pretty important in making it better. Just seeing "x people clicked it" isn't all that useful in telling you what you did right or not. Knowing which part of the market you need to do better with or your product appeals to obviously helps with improving it. There is a reason this data is worth any money to begin with, and it isn't (usually) identity theft.

[@turtlefrog369]

ads can target certain videos or websites with certain tags/topics. literally 0 user data required. But hey its big brother money.

[@Upshotr]

0:03 Damn Linus changed a lot since yesterday

[@keithbrown7685]

He's back to being a common peasant, like the rest of us.

[@Epsilonsama]

I'm a Firefox User so I appreciate Riley focusing on this!

[@Danominator]

If Firefox loses adblocking I leave.

[@lyianx]

aaaand go where?

[@My_Old_YT_Account]

​​@@lyianxFirefox forks like Waterfox, Floorp and Mullvad browser

[@devnol]

​@@lyianx Lynx.

[@CmdrOverdrive]

I've been using Brave for years. Firefox and chrome have long been in the rear view mirror.

[@MaxLittleBuddy]

ublock origin

[@countfrackula6707]

8:45 - As a smart home user, I have a couple of Galaxy S8s that I use for WiFi only, to control my smart home without having to hunt down my phone.

[@Warp2090]

bro actually has a smart home tho

[@VanillaSpooks]

“The man I killed in 1973” Just more proof here that Riley is immortal.

[@xenotiic8356]

As a Samsung Galaxy S10e owner, thank you for reporting on that awful update. I adore my phone, there aren't many left so small, but this update terrified me.

[@keithbrown7685]

Good on you! So... Samsung wanted to f**k with my Note9-- again. They'll have to put it back in their pants and get the L on down the road.

[@DominikJaniec]

me too! mine S10e is the best phone on the physical user interface side, only if that one button was free...

[@keithbrown7685]

@@DominikJaniec ah! maybe you mean bixby. that button was a problem from the start. If it could be assigned to more things, and not shift itself back to bixby with every update, it could've been handy. What I discovered was how to shut it right off, by putting certain bixby services into "deep sleep" from the device care app, in the battery section. Now the button does nothing, which is how I like it. : )

[@kreuner11]

Wordpad dates back all the way to Windows 1 actually. It was just called write, the executable being called write.exe the whole time

[@ejtaylor73]

Out of touch CEO's give the greatest marketing pitches ever FOR AD BLOCKERS. Users are telling these companies what they want, if the company isn't listening and giving it to them, those users will go elsewhere to find it, or in this day and age, they'll create it themselves and make it open source and FREE for everyone. Me personally, I have never bought anything that I've had an ad FORCED in my face, if I want something, I will do my own homework and research it on my own.

[@kenshinflyer]

0:02 Are my glasses deceiving me, or has Linus started wearing glasses?

[@herodoesstuff]

fascinated by google adding a verified checkmark to show legitimacy and then adding in a note that they don't actually know or can prove that. so it basically means nothing, lmao

[@BlueObelix]

Petition for him to keep his king costume for all October

[@TamasKiss-yk4st]

Well, he wasn't even able to keep his name, he was Linus in the first 3 sec of the video..

[@BlueObelix]

@@TamasKiss-yk4st😂😂😂😂😂

[@Kie-7077]

AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, Meanwhile my idiotic phones can't autocomplete to words I've typed numerous times in the past.

[@Topcatyo.]

2:01 Missed opportunity for “avoib the noyb”

[@wizz1358]

someone didn't do his full homework, the description of the video literally says "INTEGRATION SPONSOR LINKS GOES HERE" but nice video overall, keep up the good work

[@peetjvv]

Looks like it's been addressed

[@wizardgamireal8332]

With the removal of wordpad, I wonder how schools are going to do exams, my school in the uk used it to have a word processor that wouldn’t check spelling

[@Gaius__]

Apart from the fact that it's easy to get WordPad back ... how about disabling the spell checking in whatever other application you use? It's three clicks.

[@robcat2075]

Riley has a tough job. It can't be easy laughing at those jokes.

[@Upshotr]

This is Linus

[@Thumper68]

Yeah pretty sure he writes them which makes it even harder.

[@Jorda5s]

When you’re paid to be a character reading a script your job is to entertain. I’d be laughing at everything to get a check but I think he genuinely loves his job.

[@JakobRush]

I love you too son

[@Slomoshun4u]

3:37 I thought he said, "there's also a new TRANS page" and I was so confused why that was relevant in the shorts changes lol.

[@ScottLahteine]

Could it be that Elon just has no object permanence? “I don’t recognize my company with a different name, or my child with a different style! Where did they go??”

[@thelakeman2538]

Mozilla have been professionals at shooting their own feet for like a decade. I don't mind their PPA stuff as long as they allow you to disable it easily (and communicate it properly), though I'm skeptical as to how they'll get the ad industry on board, the only way I can see that happening is them building that system up and then lobbying governments to ban invasive targeted ads.

[@giorgos-4515]

But if no one has PPA on, they can't establish themselves more as a prominent browser. I dont like ads either but things are not free.

[@Gaius__]

Well, it is very easy to disable, it's a single click in the privacy settings. The thing is, one needs to know it is there, to disable it. I have made a habit of checking every single setting after a Firefox update, but I guess most users won't do that. Fortunately it is not always enabled by default, depending on your OS and Firefox version (it was a completely new setting, after the update, but disabled by default for me, on Firefox ESR).

[@blunderingfool]

Know what YT hasn't fixed? The arbitrary inability for mobile web users to edit comments.

[@VistasSrinagarun]

Really? Edited this one

[@KatherineFtw]

Simply click the three dots on the right side of your comment and select edit?

[@blunderingfool]

@@KatherineFtw Keep in mind the web client on mobile IS NOT the same as the mobile client. I can edit comments on the mobile client just fine, but not the web client running on a mobile browser.

[@allenqueen]

Rayleigh, I once stayed up all night editing a birthday video for my ex. When she saw it, she said it could be done in 2 minutes using automated tools😢 (pre AI era)

[@nickinderrieden7630]

TikTok is like heroine. If you don't want all the negative side effects, never do it in the first place. At all.

[@noodlecat_]

As a Firefox user , we are a relatively mellow bunch , I appreciate Riley explaining this because mannn are we bad at communicating xD

[@thescottishaccent]

I still use Wordpad to this day because it's much less clunky and annoying than Word for simple stuff. Genuinely gutted they're getting rid of it.

[@Gaius__]

It's easy to get back. Just search for it, and you'll find a dozen pages explaining how to do it.

[@allenqueen]

Regarding Firefox, if someone was going to stop their switch from Chrome to Firefox just because of this, then they were never going to stick around anyways (I think).

[@Gaius__]

It's also very easy to just disable PPA in the privacy settings (if it is enabled by default, which depends on your OS and/or your Firefox version).

[@blahorgaslisk7763]

Something to remember is that Firefox isn't the best browser for everyone. I've tried a lot of browsers and Firefox and some forks included, and I don't miss it at all. Currently and for the last few years I'm using Vivaldi, a Chromium based browser. Oh the Horror! But it fit's me very well and has a lot of standard features I need numerous extensions to make up for in Firefox. And even then it's not a perfect copy. One thing I hated about FF was when the browser got updated and suddenly one or several extensions wouldn't work with the new release. No big deal if the extensions could just be updated, but no. distressingly often the extensions I relied on were not updated or even stopped all development so I had to hunt for alternatives. And that was often not fun or rewarding. Even if I found a replacement it would require some change in how I used the browser. No I got tired of that. Way back I was a Opera user, but that was back in the day when they had their own browser engine and it was more compatible with the standards than either Mozilla, Internet Explorer or Chrome. But that ended when they ported the browser to use Chromium and changed the tab handling. Suddenly you couldn't stack tabs and the tab bar became unusable because I had over a hundred tabs open at all times. After a lot of swapping back and forth I found Vivaldi, a browser that worked almost exactly as I wanted though it was decidedly in a beta stage. The reason was that the developers of Vivaldi were people who had worked building Opera before it was converted to Chromium. They recreated a developed version of what Opera used to be before they decided to gank the users. Today I'm pretty happy about this browser and I only use one extension to block adds. That's all I need and compared to the hodge podge I used to make FF somewhat usable that's really nice. Now depending on what happens with Chromium I might have to try to find another browser that fit me, but I'm not convinced FF, or any of the forks is that browser. Oh and that potentially new browser would be hard pressed to handle my total disregards for tabs. Currently I'm well over a thousand tabs open...

[@Warp2090]

Yeah even still firefox is the better option

[@toothlessblue]

5:00 YAY more AI garbage made from stolen art, my favorite!

[@ilovefunnyamv2nd]

maybe if we do a really good job avoiding ads on KZbin, they'll decide terabytes of AI garbage on their many servers isnt profitable

[@PandHandP]

@@comput3r I genuinely wish the worst for you

[@VMYeahVN]

As well as misinformation and hoaxes, don't forget the misinformation and hoaxes! Sigh...

[@SoberAddiction]

Riley, you missed your chance to say "Avoid the NOYB." You might have missed the Noid reference from old Domino's Pizza commercials becuase they might not be/have been in Canada, and it was in the 80's.

[@concinnus]

I guess I'm not surprised that Riley has a solid Werner Herzog impression, but Jakob chimes in too? Wow.

[@jaideeparun4411]

3:11 KZbin Pants

[@DeceptivePerspective]

LMAO😂

[@YoghurtEquity]

The spit is silent is so underrated LOL

[@hochhaul]

Puffery was the exact same legal defense Ford used when they were sued for F-150's that broke too easily despite their marketing bragging about being "Built Ford Tough."

[@ViciousTNT]

"FRUITS!" killed me 😂😂😂

[@Xiao_Ke]

Corporate Puffery is just a fancy term for "It's just a prank bro!"

[@marshallmkerr]

Agreed, igneous rocks are the tastiest - especially when they're hot and fresh from the caldera!

[@My_Old_YT_Account]

My favorite are Uranium, they make my tummy glow

[@marshallmkerr]

@@My_Old_YT_Account The perfect night-light!

[@intelchip_x86]

My_Old_YT_Account I think they'd make your tummy grow too..

[@HistoricaHungarica]

My favourite is olivine. Crunchy and tastes like GREEEEEEEN!

[@bambuwuzled]

My brain had a system interrupt when I saw "Linus Sebastian" subtitle under Riley 😂

[@roystonlodge]

A non-profit organization that relies heavily on volunteers is bad at marketing? How bizarre!

[@smallqwaro]

Being able to hide shorts is a big W for me

[@King_Dub_Dub]

Alternate title: Firefox situation is crazy.

[@OnyxIdol]

Firefox situation is insane

[@tanna_k]

Google might have added the misinformation machine at the top of their search engine, buuut they're also going to add checkmarks, so they're clearly so commited to stopping false information!

[@AcesMR6]

Best thing I’ve heard all year! Turning off YT Shorts 🙌

[@uranium5694]

FYI Firefox is the last browser to support Windows 7 until March 2025 !

[@Warp2090]

Another W for firefox.

[@mbsfaridi]

They supported Vista for about a uear or so more than Chrome too.

[@ILoveTinfoilHats]

Wow Riley looks a lot like Riley today

[@ronny3060]

9:10 “I want a fridge I can watch TikTok on” - absolute gold! 😂😂

[@EmuEmuchu]

5:46 jif??!!!

[@willwunsche6940]

I pronounce it giraffe myself

[@LlywellynOBrien]

Disgraceful.

[@nathanbrownell1036]

He keeps doing it. He’s baiting us

[@damcrac]

The audacity! Unsubscribe

[@manipunation]

Just learned there is image file type .jfif. Maybe that's what he meant.

[@GavinSeim]

I use WordPad all the time. Another reason not up update to windows 11

[@GSBarlev]

The death of Wordpad is *rough.* You don't always want to spool up an overpowered, AI enabled always-online program to just take notes with rich text functionality. And if it's a work laptop, you often don't have the choice of installing LibreOffice or Obsidian.

[@Gaius__]

It's easy to get WordPad back. Just search for it, and you'll find a dozen pages telling you how to do it.

[@keithbrown7685]

Wordpad is NOT dead. Follow the instructions for copying its files to a thumb drive, then copy back after the (update).

[@GSBarlev]

@@keithbrown7685 ...yes, because corporations and governments agencies *love* it when you connect USB flash drives

[@KatherineFtw]

Just use Notepad++.

[@GrayBlood1331]

8:39 I literally just upgraded from my galaxy s7 today. If I hadn't busted the screen from pressing on it too hard I would have happily continued using it 😎

[@sirlordepicname8692]

Geez...an S7 these days? Based.

[@BlackHoleForge]

River stones are the best. The igneous rocks scrapes my mouth like Captain crunch.😂

[@riodweber]

6:21 What is there to replace it and edit .rtf files?

[@Gaius__]

A few dozen FLOSS applications ... or you just bring back WordPad, that's very easy to do.

[@renofumi28]

​@Gaius__ It's actually downloadable through the very, very ugly microsoft store. (Still better than the previous version of MS store though)

[@ichinichisan]

5:54 I can't believe this is how I found out Quichard Bitsgerald died!

[@fyrestorme]

It used to be the case, that consumers switched products because a new product came out that was better than the existing one. Now consumers switch products because the one they're currently using does something stupid and becomes worse, overnight, than a competing product.. and then the shoe switches feet again. .. from: competing to be better - to: a race to the bottom

[@retroroom7]

7:34 - Calling it now, this WILL be abused by bad actors.

[@kuromiLayfe]

mostly google/amazon/meta/bytedance/[insert other billion dollar company here]/Presidential promotors…

[@Macintoshiba]

8:22 this. This is the reason I don't instantly click on "update my phone" when samsung releases an update and shoves it in my face every 10 minutes. Seriously, that has to be one of the most annoying features, where the phone will just overlay the "update now" screen ontop of whatever youre doing, stopping you dead in your tracks

[@Ramonatho]

Oh great, we're doing the "no reasonable person would take this seriously" defence? The actual, unironic Fox News defence? Wow.

[@My_Old_YT_Account]

Pretty much every news broadcaster used it too, Fox is just the first to be dumb enough to try it and succeed

[@markmuir7338]

Musk is a right-winger these days, so it makes sense he would take from their playbook.

[@luckyshark32]

Just a prank bro!!1!1

[@julpie]

3:09 I feel personally attacked

[@LoFiAxolotl]

As someone working in advertisement and an end user.... nobody wants privatised Advertisement.... the end user doesn't really care about the data collected (atleast the vast majority) the ad is still going to be annoying and you want to use an adblock.... and as an advertiser targetted advertisement is just too damn effective.... being able to only show my advertisement to my target demographic (and google and facebook let you be VERY specific about your target demographic) is just much more effective and cheaper than throwing an Ad on a TV Station during some show where maybe 1% of the viewers are your actual demographic It's a nice thought of mozilla and probably great PR considering what google is doing to adblockers.... but it just won't work

[@whentheyD]

as someone who is an end user... i don't want to see ads, ever. and certainly, my interests are too niche for them to ever be relevant to me. no need to defend the massive overstepping of boundaries by advertisers.

[@LoFiAxolotl]

@@whentheyD the advertisers themselves know very little about you… I’ll know your age group and income bracket and your rough interest and where you’re from but that’s really it… and those are just googles “guesses” (Facebook is much better at “guessing”) sure might seem intrusive but a vast majority of people just do not care… and it’s actually stupidly easy to get rid of your ad data on Google (atleast in the EU don’t know about murica or other countries) as “tech savvy” (yes twitch and KZbin viewers these days are considered tech savvy) we’re much more likely to be aware of the privacy violation than let’s say our grandparents…. But even if I wouldn’t use an Adblock and I most certainly do… I’d much rather see ads that are as relevant as possible to my interest than not… take Twitter as an example… most reputable brands don’t advertise there anymore and the ads you see are like 90% scam sites… I don’t want to go back to the times when a wrong click can be a key logger or virus

[@Splucked]

"the end user doesn't really care about the data collected" I don't know 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 who doesn't care about their data being collected, no matter how innocuous. Being normalized doesn't make it OK. What I do on the internet is no one's business but my own. I will always go WAY out of my way to block them.

[@LoFiAxolotl]

@@Splucked about 7 billion people do not care... or we would've gotten rid of Meta and Alphabet like a decade ago... it's incredibly easy to get rid of your advertisement data on the internet but literally nobody does that

[@LightningMcQueen-rc3mh]

@@whentheyDyeah but without ads how do these websites make money? You can’t expect these sites to somehow run without ever making money

[@TomisaburoRMizugawa]

This is actually the best tech comedy show on the internets.

[@mckinleyostvig7135]

As an American, this hasn't been a free country since the Patriot Act was passed. If you're from the EU, treasure the fact that you have digital rights of any kind.

[@Shinkajo]

God i hate that name. It implies that if you're against it then you're against the country.

[@Medabee8]

8:04 - "Thats a new rimshot" - Riley 2024 😂

[@xyzain_1827]

0:01 That isn't Linus

[@ShouTan]

Some Other Big Ad Company: Just make billions and lie to customers. Even if it comes to light and there is a lawsuit, it's just a few million over the entire thing.

[@utk787]

Longer shorts, good one google

[@xipietotec]

I’m glad to see that the 80’s pizza chain mascot has a promising second career as a privacy advocate in their golden years.

[@KingFishy4921]

LINUS FINALLY GOT TALL???????????

[@ZedemMonk]

I like Waterfox, the Firefox fork I use, mostly because it lets me make my browser have tabs in the right place - directly above the page, below the address bar and not at the top of the window or anywhere else. It also gives me back my Status Bar and it's fully customizable. Yes that's right my bfowser still looks like it's the early 2000x

[@KowalskiStyL]

Hide shorts?! Please how!? I've been through every setting possible. The KZbin app on Android doesn't seem to include it.

[@nathanbangean509]

Just go through the suggested and not interested on all that are in your feed. Refresh and if they're there then do it again. Should go away eventually for a while

[@samwilde8311]

There are modified clients that can remove them. The one I use is the revival of KZbin advanced without the ad

[@nathanbangean509]

@@samwilde8311 oh nice I have to try. I was referring to Android cuz he mentioned it on the comment. Can you use it on Android and will premium subscription still work

[@georgythomas8451]

So Meta wants to take out the "Content CREATION" from content creation. Great.

[@Hash6624]

Dam, time to Edge 😞

[@NreKonkoro-vt2fo]

I use wordpad on windows 10 because it's fast (Win32 programs....) and that's neat when you just want to note something down fast. MS Word 2019/2021 will take a minute to open; I don't want to wait.

[@HaveYouTriedGuillotines]

People should vote for politicians that are anti-corporation, anti-shareholder and anti-advertising. Specifically, we need a movement that seeks to pass laws outright banning advertisement.

[@logickedmazimoon6001]

They should but unfortunately it wont attract any rich doners to fund their campaign. The system needs to be changed

[@HaveYouTriedGuillotines]

@@logickedmazimoon6001 See my name. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make the second part of this quote unmentionable without triggering sensor ship AI. They also make good fertilizer.

[@craigallen6706]

"Twitter? I never even met her!" This cannot be followed up. You should have ended there...

[@K3NnY_G]

6:15 - Is there random dings in the background music? Fuggin' why?

[@mLernen]

Is it still there or did I nuke my ears..

[@matthewcomp4114]

One of the best quick bits transitions right there.

[@michaelantonius321]

Linus' looking good with the glasses today. 0:02

[@chasebase76]

"Privacy Preserving Attribution" doesn't work very well. This is a horrible take on Mozilla. They have abandoned their principles and just ousted the person who was in line to be CEO for many years and would not have tolerated this.