Trump isn't just lucky. He's following a well-documented playbook. Michael Cohen, his former fixer who knew him better than almost anyone, explicitly warned about this. Cohen predicted Trump's quest isn't just about avoiding prison, but about using the presidency to target perceived enemies and to seize power - just like MBS did in Saudi Arabia.

When I said Trump would "manufacture disasters" to "demand emergency powers," I meant it literally. He's already declared:

That threat has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States in the domestic economic policies of key trading partners and structural imbalances in the global trading system. I hereby declare a national emergency with respect to this threat. (whitehouse.gov)

This isn't 4D chess or senility - it's methodical. According to Cohen, Trump identifies anyone not supporting him as an "adversary" and will "use the full power of the office, the full power of the Presidency to go against" them. The economic chaos isn't a mistake - it's leverage to expand authority.

The scary part? It's working exactly as designed. Wall Street crashing? Blame China. Supply chains breaking? Blame Mexico. Each crisis justifies the next power grab.

Trump's not playing 4D chess. He's playing arsonist-firefighter. 1) Light the economy on fire with tariffs. 2) Blame others for the smoke. 3) Demand emergency powers to "save" us. Oldest trick in the autocrat handbook: manufacture disasters so he can cosplay as the savior.

First, I look forward to seeing you flagged as flamebait. Second, way to miss the point. The question is one of privacy. Apparently you can't sort the two out. Mozilla is claiming privacy is a priority when it's an obvious lie. But that doesn't matter to you does it? You like being lied to right? I guess it only makes sense that a foundation that receives millions of dollars (check their 990) and receives free labor through the help of volunteers should get more money from joe public. Try to form a coherent argument next time.

Here you go, I just uploaded a copy of the source and my 1.77 xpi to github.

https://github.com/xtraeme-xt/BetterPrivacy/releases

Already use Privacy Badger, but thanks, appreciate the recommendation! There are still scenarios where websites use local storage to enforce super cookies. Publishers tend to be the worst offenders. The Volatile Storage addon in combination with BetterPrivacy were a sort of hackish way to purge the system.

The improved privacy is bullshit. WebExtensions breaks a large number of privacy plugins that blocked fingerprinting (Stop Fingerprinting), stopped redirects (NoRedirect), provided control over cross-site requests (RequestPolicy Continued), self-destructed cookies, super-cookie safeguards (BetterPrivacy), and these won't be ported. David Teller of the Mozilla Foundation has stated "some of our priorities with WebExtensions are - improving privacy. ..." Want to guess how he responded when he was asked how these privacy enhancing addons will be reintroduced to FF57? He went silent.

Then there is the Mozilla Cliqz partnership and the October experiment. "In August 2016, Mozilla ... made a strategic investment in Cliqz. Cliqz plans to eventually monetize the software through a program known as Cliqz Offers, which will deliver sponsored offers to users based on their interests and browsing history." "Mozilla is experimenting with including the Cliqz plug-in by default in its open source Firefox browser." Decide for yourself whether or not any of this is in the interest of privacy. Mozilla is drowning in its own bullshit.

Functionality trumps bugs and performance issues every time. If I have to make a choice between two pieces of software that do roughly the same thing and one does something I need and the other doesn't. I will probably go with the one that does what I need even if it is not as reliable or efficient. Firefox is a perfect case in point. I have Opera, Chrome, Pale Moon, Safari, SRWare Iron, and numerous other forks installed, but I always made Firefox my go to even though Firefox is less stable (probably addon related) because of all the customizations. That was an acceptable cost.

Firefox is frequently slow, crashes, and causes all sorts of heck, but the Firefox addon ecosystem is second to none. Yesterday I had my first taste of the new WebExtension system. The experience was bad. First Stylish broke and all my user styles went kaput. I thought no big deal, should be some easy minor edits. Boy was I wrong. Edits that previously worked nicely in Stylish I had to move to userChrome.css and even then many still didn't cooperate. To make matters worse userChrome.css is going away too according to http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/sh... . Then I started reading Wladimir Palant's comments about the changes coming down the pipe with WebExtensions and I realized every extension in Firefox that I spend time with will likely be catastrophically and permanently broken. The only reason Firefox attracts any market share is because of niche addons users can't find in other browsers. The second all of that goes away is the second Firefox loses all relevance.

The Mozilla Foundation is in full on PR attack mode right now. Look at how they respond to users in the Firefox sub-reddit who dare discuss alternatives to keep legacy addons functional. The Firefox team probably realizes that if FF57 isn't a success the whole organization is sunk. The team is probably terrified they are going to lose a significant number of users and not make it up.

If this was meant for perf and debugging with the PDB, then why would it be linking the .obj file for telemetry_main_invoke_trigger and telemetry_main_return_trigger into a retail executable? The retail executable should have all debug symbols stripped. That is the point of retail, right?

Furthermore logging when executables start and close doesn't seem too useful when investigating performance problems. Carroll say's that the feature was abandoned, so perhaps that's why it seems mostly useless. However this feature is not useless if the purpose is to determine which programs the user runs and for how long. I'm suspicious enough about Windows 10 to suspect that's already happening at other levels.

Yep, looks it does: http://winaero.com/blog/how-to...

data about how you use Windows, such as how frequently or how long you use certain features or apps and which apps you use most often

One way to find out if these functions were intentionally meant to explicitly spy on userland programs would be to check whether it is enabled for executables contained within Windows 10. If it is in Win10 exes, and telemetry_main_invoke_trigger is truly useless, I wonder whether it will be removed in the future when Windows gets rebuilt with a newer compiler.

Interesting, there is definitely an argument to be made that people can be hypocritical when it comes to protecting their own interests. Not sure why a person with mod points labeled this as flamebait.

"Page response time is not limited by your connection speed "

So what are they trying to get at here -- that it's like Akamai? Because this just sounds like marketing drivel.

Well would you look at that: http://i.imgur.com/YsNjWCc.png

Thanks for protecting me AVG. /sarcasm

Let's see, what culture wants immediate gratification, has an insatiable desire for new technology, and wants instantaneous answers to technical questions (ala Stack Exchange) without any sort of real understanding of the logic or science behind it.

The answer is pretty obvious: Pakleds are 21st century millennials.

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