That’s true. 2 years ago, I come by my friend’s house for a drink, and his kid is watching cartoons on YT. My friend’s been a gamer for +20 years. Spent most of his life around PC. All of a sudden, I hear ads.

What’s that? What? What’s with the ads? Oh that, that’s YT.

I know it is, but what’s with the ads? Well, they have ads. I know they do, but why do you have them…

Installed adblocker for him, he’s looking at it in shock. I’m looking at him shocked…

People have no idea, what we take for granted. 😅

Your battery’s still short of 4 hours. 😁

For these types of articles where the “info” is actually 1-2 sentences, 90% of the time I’ll rather read executive summary like yours.

Thanks! 🍻

Yep, was afraid of that. Sadly, not a solution for me then.

Thanks nevertheless! 🍻

Let me correct that for you:

iOS 18.2 Finally Forced to Allow Third-Party Browser Web Apps With Custom Engines in EU

P.S. Thanks, Brussels.

I checked out Tailscale, and my 👀 popped when I realized what it does! 😄

I proceeded to install it on my phone, only to realize a moment later that my connection was down. I headed over to my Rethink DNS firewall and saw that Tailscale had taken over my VPN connection, causing Rethink to shut everything down (as it’s supposed to).

Now, unfortunately, I’m probably gonna find out that Tailscale works like this and that I cannot use it because I’d have to drop my firewall? 🙈

Just goes to show that even a legend can act like an idiot.

Even my taxi apps receive/lose location access automatically on open/close.

That’s my approach with Rethink DNS. I get FOSS alternatives whenever acceptable for my use case, but isolate even them to only bare working minimum of outside connections.

Or tweak Firefox yourself. 😄

Good riddance. 🤷‍♂

No worries. Thanks for your input. 🍻

Same here. 😅

If it wasn’t clear from my comment, I’m not defending Musk. Don’t care much about him.

I just don’t envy the judge that has to consider this. I’m a musician, and find it complicated to judge such issues in the musical landscape.

Ridiculous confession, as well as the article. “I should’ve burned more money, that would solve everything.”

There’s really some lecture material there. 😆

There’s a Reader mode in Firefox/Mull that you press before the page completely loads, i.e. before the wall appears. Works on most sites.

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Yeah, don’t know what to think. Is this closer to copying a melody from a certain ballad or using the same chords that no-one owns and have been reused through decades to write a ballad… 🤔

Beer sounds good. 🍻