The TOS on Firefox is a bit shit, but TLE is also going the click bait angle lately, last week he was riling up viewers about some comments from Fedora's Matt Miller about Flatpaks on Flathub (an area that Miller is not an expert in, nor should he be considered one), Nick saying he could no longer respect Fedora in the Video, but then in the comments walking it back. Youtubers are going to Youtube
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Oh yeah.. glad I'm not the only one noticing the theatrical performance.. what about the hysteric comments he made about Trump when the results were announced, only to take Proton's sponsorship money when the dust settled (3 weeks later), many people were upset and were loud about Proton endorsement of Trump, while TLE was really silent about the matter all the time.. didn't even make a comment about it.. so now you gonna become apolitical? exactly.. YouTubers gonna YouTube
I believe proton as an organization actually stated that it didn't endorse Trump
I couldn't find a better word to put, I was going to say complement or congratulate, but to most people who were mad about it on Mastodon, to them it was an endorsement.. but you're right.. It wasn't..
I like at least one of Nico's other videos, and while he makes technically correct points...
"Nothing changed"
If this is true, then Mozilla can delete their entire Firefox license. Nothing will change a second time.
I also saw this comment which I agree with:
The Linux Experiment is probably being too harsh, for this issue, but leaving Mozilla for understandable reasons (enough is enough etc), whereas you are giving them too much benefit of the doubt.
When it comes to personal privacy and sovereignty, nobody should ever give a legal document the benefit of the doubt. I think it is rational and healthy to search for a worst possible scenario in order to know what a company can do with a document you have accepted.
When it comes to personal privacy, you shouldn't use anything you didn't vet and compile yourself. And yet, privacy "enthusiasts" always expect someone else to do the hard thing for them. With so much "support" for opensource, here we are, with so little options.
The company will always protect itself and Mozilla is no different. They are doing great work with the browser but their management is a different story. These lazy kneejerk reactions are typical of who contribute the least are always the loudest.
It means less coming from a youtuber (both in these instance), who do things for enragement/appeasement and ultimately for money.
How exactly do you expect every single privacy "enthusiast" to inspect source code?
A privacy "enthusiast" is not the same as a privacy "expert". And even then, a "privacy expert" doesn't need to be a genius programmer - or even one at all - they can be lawyers, historians or journalists.
Knowing how to code is hard. Knowing reading someone else's code is even harder. Vetting code for security is even harder than that.
Not to mention the fact that the Firefox source is enormus, dwarfing kernel.org, a huge project with an incredible amount of contributors.
Expecting every privacy "expert" to be able to fully understand every single line of code in a project is divorced from reality. Expecting it from anyone merely interested in it is asinine.
Not even a genius security researcher would be capable of vetting the source of something as giant as Firefox on their own. Sure, it's a great passion project which many have taken up and learned many things from it, but it just isn't practical for literally anyone.
The Open source community is just that - a community. And any good community sticks together. A deeply rooted interst of this community is to spread its message and accomplishments to everyone, "experts", "enthusiast" or "neither" alike.
Any community benefits most from active members who wish it good. It also benefits from members being varied, and thus able to give their own, unique perspective on community issues. As I said, many privacy experts aren't security experts, but rather people of a legal, journalist and historic background. Some are vloggers. Nothing wrong with that.
If the community is healthy, things will balance out. The vloggers, bloggers and Mastodon posters' backlash (among others) would force Mozilla to capitulate on the issue, or create a fork if the situation asks for.
watched the first minute, and this exactly went how i expected it to go, Nicco is such an apologist, saying that Firefox is basically copying Edge, Chrome, Safari... Is the hardest cope I heard so far..
Mozilla fucked up, end of story