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That's a fair point. However, that doesn't change the situation, that merely highlights the severity of the problem, IMHO.

As well as a disproportionate effect on the political systems, tax evasion, and so forth.

When businesses become so large, they no longer are a $countryOfOrigin company (A US company in the case of Apple). They become multinational entities that have no loyalty to a nation, just loyalty to pocket books.

I like this idea a LOT. However, the potential for abuse is, forgive me, too damn high. The extension owner can extort sites to not be attacked or attacked less. (a la AdBlock Plus, ghostery(?), etc).

Firefox, thanks to "Firefox Lockwise" and other Mozilla products, is now a brand name, not just a browser name. The product title sounds like it came from Mozilla, which is probably not ok.

Not anymore is it hyperbolic. Not when you have product names like "Firefox Lockwise" and so forth. Firefox is now a brand name and also a browser name (horrible, horrible move by Mozilla, IMHO). So, FirefoxPWA is probably in some kind of IP violation.

My local library has WiFi Hotspots to checkout for free. They are T-Mobile hotspots and Fast.com reports:

35Mbps down (steady)

3Mbps up (decays quickly suggesting shown upload is "boost" / "burst" speeds or possibly throttled heavily in some other manner)

Wow, ok then. Screw the consumer. Too bad their neglect/delays/etc to update information isn't considered malice. People will lose out on homes, cars, be charged more if this false data is a negative on your credit score, while waiting for the kind overlords to make the appropriate changes.

Some of us do and have for awhile, but no one with power seems to know or care.

Edge almost got me to switch to using Windows with WSL. No joke. Windows was looking good with the new WSL2 on the way and a browser that wasn't sucking. Edge was enticing as Firefox has been going downhill for years (still is, and I still can't find a replacement. Vivaldi was close, but is closed source and has some serious UI lag issues on Android). I, an avid opensource user and believer, was considering a switch back (I like gaming too, so that would have been a nice boost to ease of game play). I let time slip before I made the change and well, I'm glad I did. I would have run Windows for about 6 months just to move back after some "updates."

Free credit monitoring is the biggest scam of all:

- Company doesn't follow security practices and leaks data

- Feds get notified if it's a big enough breach. Btw, this is from the good will of the company

- Data Brokers...erm, Credit Agencies, then monitor for the data...i guess the insurance company sent it to them too, so they know what to look for?

- I don't know who pays for this (originating company, tax payers, etc)

- Credit Agencies now get to monitor you. Watch what you do under the guise of protecting you. While still building your credit score.

- Hopefully the info leaked and being used is accurate. If not, the Credit Agency has no obligation to fix it unless you say so and even then it can take a long time to remedy.

This just seems fucked.

> We have no reason to believe that someone will misuse your information because of what happened.

Yeah, ok. They literally sent victims to a DATA BROKER to "protect" them. The very same people who would buy up that leaked data that came the "hack." What fucking world do we live in??

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> Faster on which CPU?

Perhaps faster means fewer instructions in this instance? Considering number of instructions is what has been discussed.

This seems like it aids Police with free speech violating takedown requests. Police want that footage taken off Twitter, the officer only needs to tell Twitter they don't consent. Not that Twitter is a bastion of free speech, but law enforcement can just ask companies to act on their behalf. No violation. And Twitter is shielded from lawsuits.

(IANAL, these are my admittedly simple and probably naïve assumptions)

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Forever? For now. Laws will be changed (if they need to be) and Musk or the next Musk will move HQ to a more favorable country because profits.

Yep, except at best we'll probably ever get is local government to pay, which means the community pays for the destruction and the cost of cleaning up after.

Qualified Immunity protects from sanity like that.

Firefox is no longer just a browser. It's a brand. The gecko engine needs promoting; not Firefox any longer. The name confusion is going to destroy any hope, IMHO.

Brand loyalty/trust is gone and companies wonder why... (Slight tangent; I believe Mozilla are tarnishing the Firefox name this way as well with firefox branded this and that.)

> So how do you actually enforce that capacity limit?

Any company can set cap limits and wait limits. "Sorry, we're booked out 1 month, check back soon." (Don't major restaurants do this?) More people want to visit than cap or time allows, open more locations. &c.

My apologies, the intent was to suggest that we may be able to find a more fair division.

> I’m not sure this is a bad thing and might actually make the trip to Disney all that more special.

Exclusivity makes for an air of "special"-ness, absolutely, but the line of division doesn't necessarily have to be a monetary one. (I have a complaint with no answer, but we're a smart group, lets find one).

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Price doesn't have to be the gatekeeper. That is an artificial division that leaves out hard working individuals who happen to be making money for someone else rather than themselves (among others). (Also "Get a better job," only goes so far.) What they could do, is, idunno, set a capacity limit based on experience of users and develop changes for their users and not just their pocket books.

Nit (maybe moot):

> 4) Apple incurred damages […] from expenses related to mitigating the hacking of their users.

This sounds like no one should be a security researcher for they risk paying companies to implement the security the company should have implemented anyway. Put another way, that also sounds like the corporate open source push, "We love open source because we don't have to support it, the community will!"

"4)" says the community will pay for/support security, just wait for the hack and make 'em clean it up. Mitigation costs shouldn't be a recoverable damage, they should be doubled and paid out to the victims...maybe that'll incentivise better security over dollar dollar bills y'all.

This all maybe moot because this was a B2B action and I'm thinking from a non-monied, single user/security researcher perspective. What if the company was a non-profit security research group? Perhaps this is what the 90day grace periods are for when dealing with responsible disclosure?

Anyhow, my ignorance must be showing at this point.

It's a difficult argument, but perhaps one on quality could be made (IANAL and maybe talking out my ASS). By having Amazon promote their lesser-quality-but-supposed-same-product the consumer is being hurt. I argue this as I have spent too much on Amazon Basics. One specific case, USB cables, I had to go buy am alternate brand of the same product soon thereafter.

Nor, in some cases, do they allow for oddball work schedules. So even if you have work, due to the hours you have, no shelter for you.

Would this then force companies to pay according to what universities charge? How are those levels determined?

How would humanities, arts, pure reasearch and the like survive in this model?

Move away from vendor lock-in.

Why the downvotes? Just curious.

It might create yet another poor v rich divide. See my comment elsewhere for more of an explanation