I'd say it's more intolerably long copyright terms than the DMCA specifically.

We need a competitor badly.

If my ISP starts throttling my traffic, I'll just switch to one of the zero other providers in my area.

I'm on the "OK but keep an eye on it" train, here.

Devs need feedback to know how people are using the product, and opt-out tracking is the best way to do it. In this case, it seems like my personal data is completely unidentifiable.

I was coding in the IE6 era, so I'd really prefer to not end up in a browser engine monoculture again.

Related: Internet Archive hosts zillions of abandoned games. Publishers are currently trying to sue it out of existence. They accept donations.

My simple home page is 10 KB now. And you might not think that's such a big deal, but it has more content than Google's search page and that rings in at a couple MB IIRC. 😁

the coveted green bubble messaging

I guess some people just have different priorities than I do. :)

Firefox does something else very important: provide another rendering engine for the web. When that landscape homogenizes, you get IE6 all over again. And we never want to go back there.

I used to give Google money for services (Drive and YouTube), but I've already stopped doing that because of their evil ways. This just hammers it home that much more.

Edit: The shitty part is what a cool company it used to be. And to watch it destroy itself like this is just sad.

Turns out if you get rid of ads and the algorithm, you end up back in the land of sanity.

I think most billionaires have a bit of their brain set to believe in themselves rather more than is warranted. It's great for making money, but maybe not something you want to put your life on the line over.

Amen. When people talk about how Reddit or Twitter will always be bigger, I say, "Let them be bigger." What we have out here is fantastic just the way it is. In a global world, "small" is still millions of people.