AmbitiousProcess

Only if other reviews are missing major context.

If a product I bought a year ago breaks, but everyone else wrote their review the day after they got it and said it was great, I'm gonna write a review telling you it might not last as long as you think, for example.

Once I got pulled aside before even getting through the security line, then the people rummaging through my bags and patting me down started gambling real money with each other about what my age was before I told them -_-

Mozilla uses "they're" to refer to Kit, but other than that there's no explicit statement at all.

Kit is a companion, not a commentator. They’re not here to deliver punchlines. Kit shows up as a small signal that Firefox is working for you, then steps back so you can keep moving.

It does have its flaws though. For example, if you use uBlock Origin, your browser's requests to the ad networks' servers never make it.

If you use AdNauseam, the requests do make it. This means the ad networks will get your IP address, what page you were on, browser fingerprints, etc.

Essentially, you spam click ads, but at the cost of... giving them all the data they'd normally get if you didn't have an ad blocker and spam clicked ads.

Most of these networks can filter out obvious bot behavior like just clicking every single ad repeatedly, so at the end of the day it's unlikely to do much harm to them, but it sure as hell will give them a lot of trackable data about your browsing history.

I do believe it's more effective when the extension is set to only click ads somewhat occasionally though. Enough to drain extra money, while still just looking like a person that tends to click ads more frequently than others, instead of clicking every single one.

Hence why this article is about them leaving the openly Nazi billionaire's platform while remaining on other platforms that are mainstream and still provide a lot of reach :)

I think Reuters had a much more clear headline as to the actual impact of this.

DHS says US could stop processing international travelers at some airports in 'sanctuary cities'

If you're a tourist, go home. If you leave, you can't get back in.

No international flights would likely be able to land, since no international travelers would be able to enter, U.S. citizen or not.

Sorry to everyone who thought this was real, but this is fake.

This is "truthsocialapp.com" with the fake post (and no interactions at all), and this is Trump's actual Truth Social account on the real domain, truthsocial.com, where you'll notice the post doesn't exist.

WHOIS records for the fake domain show it was registered with an entirely separate registrar, and uses different nameservers than the real Truth Social domain.

What are we even doing, man...

Exactly. AI slop is just that. Slop.

If it's just an AI doing something useful, we don't call it slop, we just call it AI.

When Google's AlphaFold predicted the folding of over 200 million protein structures, and won a nobel prize for it, I don't think anyone would call all the research using it to make cures to diseases slop.

Good.

As they mentioned, "The threat to encryption is relevant today with store-now-decrypt-later attacks".

We already know governments regularly hoover up all the data they can through taps into internet backbones, service provider takeovers, ISP snooping, etc. Why the hell would we let them keep collecting data they'll just decrypt later when it's feasible to?

I totally recommend just clicking through random pages on there for a good 10 minutes or so. You'll be surprised at how many random, cool, interesting things you find that you'd probably never see otherwise in a million years. (also an AMAZING place to find small blogs to add to your RSS reader of choice)

They feed a lot of this into their main search index if you pay for Kagi search too, so a lot of these sites will appear higher than they would on Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, etc, if their content is relevant. Especially fediverse sources.