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Mozilla just ditched its privacy partner because its CEO is tied to data brokers (www.theverge.com)
submitted 8 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] arefx@lemmy.ml 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I am a native english speaker and the headline absolutely makes sense and is clearly worded, some people just dont think about what they are reading and gloss over it.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

On lemmy in particular, you'll see a lot of the following scenarios

  • statement could be taken one of two ways

  • option #1 makes sense and is reasonable

  • option #2 is absolute gobbledigook

  • lemmy users: "I literally cannot understand which of these interpretations is accurate"

Perhaps it's related to the large numbers of self-professed neurodivergent people here?

[–] OpenTTD@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 months ago

Neurodivergent, my ass. I literally have been diagnosed with Aspergers'/Autism Spectrum Disorder/whatever since I was 8, that was 25 years ago, and knew it had to be the "privacy" "partner" CEO that had data broker connections. This is either lack of knowledge (reddit was easy to use and then turned evil) or lack of brain cells, but to be fair... That grammar is implausibly awful, like someone was trying to punish Mozilla...

[–] histic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago

yea "their" instead of "it's" imo would be a little clearer but it still makes sense