Nothing but Firefox's own stupidity. They decided to follow Chrome in all of the worst ways and after the complete fiasco with plug-ins a few years back they really never had a reason but to fail. Seems their vision is set on copy-catting and virtue signaling but never a good product that does better.

Mass surveillance even by a private company is still mass surveillance. Its BS to be able to hid behind a private company if government interests can freely tap that maple. Information might have been publically available but that doesnt mean a free call to absorb all that under a single umbrella that can later sell or reproduce. Data brokers and assimilators should be curbed to the max.

That is not correct. Google only fetches when the user asks. There are some occssions where gmail or gsuite will pre fetch but that's based on the users previous behaviour and their likelihood of opening messages being high. The proxy does masks the IP of the end user so you lose some location data if thats important but otherwise its not a big deal.

That doesnt mean the US isnt self sufficient. It just means they remain imperialistic with intelligence. It's the same dumb argument about not having raw resources or enough rare earths. If push comes to shove itll be back. Right now starve the beast applies to non domestic resources.

Yeah I was sort of including the processing/refinement part of it in the "supply chains being a bigger issue." Right now almost everything that is mined, hell a lot of fished and farmed good end up out of country to be processed before being re-imported. That is a serious problem to me even if it's "cheaper."

Reliant only due to extortionary reasons. Supply chains are probably a bigger issue but the actual rare earth minerals and materials are almost all found in plenty under US soil. The biggest hurdle is price and that's mostly regulation costs. Nothing wrong with that in my opinion. We have it if we want it. Restoring those reserves will take a bit of capital and some time but in time of need it'll be quickly scaled up and out. We should exploit foreign reserves as long and as cheap as possible. It's almost ironic that the Repubs were praising our oil production being up and not "relying" on foreign oil. Yeah that's not good. We were exploiting their reserves and the cheap, low cost, of almost free. Without the guilt of labor-for-all-but-free pricing. Now we produce a ton of oil but it's still not staying here which is doubly-dumb but that's macro economics at scale.

I still loath this functionality in Chrome. One of the worst decisions I have had the displeasure of dealing with. It's too bad FF stopped being it's own over a decade ago.

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Yes that's basically what I was recalling when I made my quip. I could have provided details but I assumed most commenters are familiar with past events and the current outcome.

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Is this some type of dark humored joke? What system like that exist anywhere. Seriously people have a choice of their own to make and making risky choices all the time eventually catches up to you. If that's the pipeline then it sure as steel doesnt sound like a school problem.

I thought the browser was still going to allow you to choose the DNS host for DOH. Is that not the case? Or is it semi-allowed in that they offer you a few providers to choose from but not your own custom hosts? If I can choose any DNS server then why couldn't I point my browser to PiHole?

First, didn't know they died.
Second, the conclusion of Plex being the reason for an increase in piracy is just laughable.
(legal) Streaming, the once great bastion into ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT at anytime and a reasonable cost is now dying. Everyone wanted their piece of the pie and the end user is adapting once again. Plex could die tomorrow and piracy numbers wouldn't blink.