They can, do, and will keep doing so. Damaging projects and efforts in the process.

Google is Mozilla’s biggest source of income, and google developers have actively contributed code to the Firefox engine.

So you decide for yourself what level of independence you assign to it.

Without the buyout, the company would have failed even earlier. Doesn’t help the employees either.

My employer. Who owns the laptop. And forbids me to fuck around with it…

I haven’t heard of either, let me check if I can run those with my user profile and not break anything I need to log on to our corporate network in the process.

Not that I’m aware of, but I’ll double check.

I tried and it doesn’t update, even after a clean reboot with no browser open whatsoever. However I did find another entry in the Firewall that comes up right on boot, which is a service called MS.Edge.Webview2, which seems to be triggered through the Teams App. I’ve now completely uninstalled Teams, and after a fresh boot the ad (or “media control”) seems to be gone now. Guess I’ll be using Teams from my phone or via browser in the future.

Thought of that as well, but all ads are blocked and I get this popup even with the browser closed and after a full reboot (not just suspend and reactivate), so it must happen on system level, I assume. Checked my run on startup applications and services, and they appear to be clean as well.

Oh nice, thanks! Will give it a shot.

I have disabled and uninstalled it, but office 365 still enforces it as the default save as location, so now when I use the dialogue, the system hangs for 30 seconds. Even disabled it in the policy management, but no dice.

They had their servers seized, but were later returned and the service came back as mega.nz, legit and all.

I can’t wait to see the site formerly known as Twitter to go out of business.

Discord is great for casual chatting. Was it ever intended to be a forum though? For that use case, it’s completely impractical.

Sure, I’d take that over ads anytime.

Just catch everything in the background, play the full ad on mute, and when the ad segment is coming up in the stream you are actually watching, switch to the cached copy. Shouldn’t be too hard to program.

That would work for ads before the content, but not if they are spliced into the running video.

You can just switch it off.

You can easily moderate communities on remote instances, all you need to do is leave a comment there, and then the existing moderator has a “make moderator” in the context menu below your username.

This can’t currently be done through any app, only in the web front-end.

In case the community is de facto unmoderated, you’d have to contact the admins of the instance. Or alternatively, create a community with the same name on your home instance and leave a comment in that community informing them and hope some will follow.

That’s correct, but most of those calculations were based on theoretical figures used by artificial aging methods and computed failure rates. Now we have real world data from panels that actually aged that long.

They just plaster the brand name all over the web to score high in number of results. Not intended to rank high on google, just to fake visibility in general.