Solution. Reverse the CAPTCHA reaction. If it’s solved, it’s a bot, if not, it’s a frustrated human.

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Doing something you know will result in a negative(in our case here, losing a huge level of activity, participation, stability, etc).

The term soaring is pretty relative in this case. It’s still completely unknown to the majority of the world. It’s just like Lemmy, where the very few rigid types that absolutely couldn’t stand for one particular thing that happened to their social network will do anything, including cutting their nose off to spite their face rather than continue to use it. That’s why we’re all here and it’s why nobody else but us are coming.

I guess I fucking don’t.

Not offended at all. This behavior is completely expected. Don’t share your terrible experience until someone else is talking about how your post-employer misled their viewers, then pile on when it will get clicks.

I see, thanks for the clarification.

I probably wouldn’t have been standing at all, seeing as how I have no clue what “gamergate” is.

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“They’re super-terrible to work for and I’ve just coincidentally chose this period of the company’s social implosion to quit and speak up. This is definitely not a bandwagon move. #metooLMG”

Isn’t there a /c/drama this shit could be dropped in? Least technical article ever.

I use both Windows and linux daily. I don’t have an issue with either.

I’m not asking this facetiously but truly curious; Have you ever witnessed a single Firefox feature designed to harm your web experience? I don’t mean telemetry, etc but blocking ad blockers, forcing you to view ads, etc. I’ve been using Firefox for over 20 years, since it was named Phoenix and can’t think of a single example similar to the vein of your OP.

This is a pretty good hyperbolic rant. Nothing positive, all negative and an unsubstantiated “I can’t prove it but I think they’re doing this because…” which always gets the blood pumping and fingers flying. I give you an 8 out of 10. I could have given you a solid 10 on this effort if you had blamed the libs or a cabal for the nefarious deeds occurring in your about:config.

They didn’t hide the release of the bug feature, they posted it on the Moz website for future patch notes.

The “for now” about the config setting actually made me chuckle. It’s an option that you can optionally choose to disable. They’re not testing their evil deeds on you by letting you turn it off.

Google is making their move because of their ad dollars at stake, Firefox will only benefit in terms of market share when that happens because they’ll have another bump in user count in the form of a mini-exodus from Chrome, just like they did when Chrome announced stopping ad blockers from running in their browser. Almost all income from Moz comes from partnerships with the search providers listed in the browser search options. 0 dollars comes from advertising, so there is absolutely no reason for them to keep you from blocking advertisements on pages that only helps their competitor.

It’s very clear to anyone that’s paid attention that Moz is trying to protect a user that’s downloaded a malicious addon(or one that’s been hijacked) from siphoning data like login/pass on your banking site when, for example, the addon is supposed to only change the youtube site from displaying shorts in your feed. Prior to this bug feature, an addon that could see all data on a webpage could see all data on any webpage, whether it needed it on that page or not which is comically bad practice. They’ve finally implemented a method of restricting addons that don’t need to see your most sensitive browsing from doing something nefarious like selling that data, using it against you or robbing you blind with it.

Here’s the best part of it all though. Simply use a forked version of the browser if you feel you’re using one now that an evil entity is trying to enslave you with by forcing you to see their competitor’s advertisements(logic!). There’s many “hardened” versions of Firefox, like librewolf, which strips Mozilla phone-home stuff like telemetry, sync, etc., The code is open source meaning you can build your own from the sourcecode, which will allow you to pore over every line, looking for hidden treasures that are trying to ruin your browsing experience. Or at least make an uninformed guess that is what it’s doing.

I wish they would make it possible and/or create a second filter making a distinction between porn and other NSFW.

Thank you very much for your help. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case for my current need but will keep the tip in mind for the future.

No, you don’t install the official app. You install x-manager, then install a patched version of Spotify through the x-manager app.

Meanwhile, ad-free Spotify through X-Manager remains free.

I completely agree with you but I think that the majority of Reddit users don’t care and in 6 months time, this debacle will be completely forgotten by them and revenue will have completely recovered. I don’t think I’m being cynical about it, I’m just going by past cases(FB, Twitter, etc.). The majority of users simply don’t care.

I don’t think it’s necessarily newsworthy as they’ve stated they would do that since the beginning of the uprising. They would be silly to sit on their thumbs while losing communities with millions of subs to protest. Open it, recruit a few people that could care less about 3rd party access and keep raking in that dough.

I found this comment more useful than the OP. With Google getting ready to block ad blockers, I’m hoping this is a way to continue watching YT content.