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It was murder. He stood against the hoarders, and they got his head.

Did a little bit of digging on that one, before being bought by Bayer, the Cutter biological division was responsible for another pharmaceutical disaster. They accidentally (?) sold 120 000 doses of polio vaccines containing the live polio virus.

Thanks for taking the time to answer, I’ll check the thread.
Yeah I switched from trust to paranoia, it seems, hopefully I’ll settle on a middle ground.

Honestly I don’t think I’m technically adept enough to check this myself. I was following firefox privacy guides, and the (much more competent) people writing them were puzzled about those two.
Of course it’s not necessarily malicious, but it has became hard to be trusting.

In the end I kind of just gave up on privacy, I take mitigation measures as a symbolic gesture, but still assume someone’s watching over my shoulder whatever I do online. Not a good feeling to be honest.

How would I check exactly what data firefox is sending home?

firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com
content-signature-2.cdn.mozilla.net

There are unexpected connections to these two domains that cannot be disabled using firefox options.

Easily? How?
AFAIK no matter what you do, firefox still calls home sometimes.

From what I can tell, the idea is to make you feel like, with a little bit of effort, the privacy thing would be achievable,
but when you actually try, it’s a whole different ordeal.

Meta will face daily fines of €89,500 if it doesn’t comply with the order.

Bet they can write it off as expenses.

We were making a big fuss back then. We also made a big fuss about Gitmo.
Nobody cared.

Where I live it’s much more complete than google maps, especially in the countryside.

They do feel their existence is threatened since NATO expended to the east in 1999.

I don’t see a scenario where google or the likes would be allowed to fail. So moot point.

Hypothetically it would open a window for open source services to sneak in.

Middle term? The phasing out of personal computers, and moving toward a system of servers/terminals where noone owns software.
You’ll rent computing power or storage space, you’ll only pay for the interface.

I have absolutely no idea, you could try asking the devs or look into webtorrent.

Peertube uses bittorrent, the viewers share the video among themselves to relieve server load.
I don’t know how well it works, since there’s never enough people around to see it in action.