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Why does Mozilla need ad dollars? Firefox is open source? If they don't have a search engine what buisness do they feel thatvthey need this? Ads in Firefox potententially incoming??

If they would just stick with Firefox and nothing else they would be alright but they just keep doing things their userbase won't like. They keep rissing their own expenses, for what? And wonder why no one uses Firefox. I wonder why.

The android app is about as clunky like Chrome even though it doesn't need to be. Try other open source browsers like Lighting, which can view most modern sites and are just better made and don't feel clunky and slugish.

The day they announced vpn services I dropped from Firefox. Because now its going to be more expensive for them. And they did more since then.

One thing I'll give Facebook credit for in the case of content moderation is, Facebook is not decentralized like the Fediverse compared to on Lemmy, Misskey or Mastodon and etc.

Facebook has a whole centralized platform to moderate with all users. Compared to the Fediverse this moderation can be tough and very expensive. Facebook would have to pay a lot of moderators.

There are some problems known to occur however

There are some things that can slip through but with all this ai training more companies are moving towards ai moderation over human moderation that should reduce moderation costs and their profitability.

Some content Facebook doesn't seem to tackle unless a government complains to them, particularly if they know its something they know generates them money.

Boooo Microsoft Windows

Since you asked, and I commented on Lemmy about this before.

Back in the Windows XP and even Windows 7 days Microsoft was trying to sell computers to people. It had to convince people why computers are worth their time.

Fast forward to Windows 10 and now it's, "ok we now got an audience that's addicted to our operating system, lets see what we can get away with. We might lose like 1% to Linux and like 5% to mac doing some of these while most of everyone won't switch at all. and we increase our profits."

Microsoft could care less about your PCs resources when you're idk, playing some 4k or even 8k video games. What a joke, but for real, if any of you use WIndows at home and don't want to jump straight to Linux. You can (temporally jump over to Chromebooks, which will mostly work out of the box, and has support for Linux apps.

Chromebook's I would argue are perfect for getting users use to Linux apps without having to worry about losing any familiarity they might have with Something like WIndows or Mac.

Someone mentioned Libby, which I used before I didn't realized they did magazine subscriptions, and that they are free and legal.

I'm trying out subscribing to some of these. including tech life news, and wired. Something like this where it's updated weekly with new news stories, but you have to wait to a certain time point to access is particularly what I was looking for, this might work out without having to use the newspaper.

Good point with Libby, i'l have to check some of the library apps.

I use to care, but then I just use Peertube. Oh but there's not as much content on Peertube. Put the type of content you like on Peertube make a channel it is free. Another tip is, look for specific types of content, and not specific content creators. and if you happened to find a creator you know or knew, follow them on Peertube!

I have plenty of tech Peertube channels that keep me up to date on Peertube, and it's a type of platform that will never have ads or go a direction I don''t want it to as a whole in terms of federation of servers and being an opensource video platform.

Server can surely make some unwelcomed decisions, and I can just change servers easily. Better then Youtube no ads, and your experience does not get throttled.

I would had concern over internet forums disappearing back in 2015-2012, but now a days, I don't worry as much. if it wasn't being replaced by the fediverse. Well maybe not replaced, but it is an alternative that has some good activity surprisingly and still growing, thanks to Mastodons marketing. It's like an upgraded forums. And everyone can communicate no matter where they go on the Fediverse.

I didn't know there *were government-run dating apps. Something I can research about. But this is coming from a u.s perspective. So in other countries, this might be common knowledge within their territory I understand that.

Linux has come along way, there was a time just getting Linux to run, and then to run apps on it was just unmanageable. I mean, you could do it but most people wouldn't want to compile the kernel. Nor would they know where to start to do that, coming from Windows XP or even 7. They'd ask, what's a kernel, and all you had was a terminal, and I assume the terminal wasn't as user friendly as it is now back then but idk about that.

Windows use to just work out of the box, Microsoft used to care back then because in my opinion they were just trying to sell the idea of just using a computer to people. Now that they got people using computers, most with Windows on it then they go to the next phase, make money. The product is less of a concern, but they want to make money off their users.

You can expect Windows to be more modern and up to date on corporate trends, but not so what you want as a user. They aren't trying to sell computers and operating systems any more, they already got people hooked to using their os, that's what they probably cared about back then.