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STOP. UPDATING. (mstdn.social)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by wyatt_h_knott@mstdn.social to c/firefox@lemmy.world

@firefox STOP. UPDATING.

The browser was done TEN YEARS AGO. There is literally ZERO FUCKING JUSTIFICATION for you pushing updates EVERY GODDAMN DAY.

Fucking KNOCK IT OFF. WE DON'T WANT YOUR AI FUCKING GARBAGE.

This is why you're losing to a fucking fork.

You were supposed to be defenders of the faith, not fucking corporate whore sellouts like Google.

#fuckfirefox #librewolfwins

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[-] wyatt_h_knott@mstdn.social 0 points 1 week ago

@muusemuuse Furthermore, if security is pushed all the way down to the user level, and we expect users to do the work to keep the internet secure, then the internet IS BROKEN AND BADLY DESIGNED. Security is the province of OS's, ISPs, and networks, not individual instance users. If the last line of defense is ME< THEY DID IT WRONG.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Yes, the internet is broken and badly designed. Because no one designed it, not in its current form. It's a patchwork of barely-compatible technologies being held together by a collective delusion.

On one hand, though, this is your most reasonable argument of all of them: security shouldn't fall on you as the last line of defense. Ironically, though, it most undermines your overall point, because the reason browsers continue updating is specifically to remove more security responsibilities from you. Since the attack surfaces continue changing, the security assertions have to continue changing too.

Sure, those three sites you go to every day are safe and trustworthy right now, and the network you access them from is uncompromised right now, but Microsoft had a supply chain attack just a couple of months ago. It's very possible that those trustworthy sites might be compromised tomorrow, and if you're still running an old browser with a known exploit, they could successfully target you.

But hey, you say, I'm pretty savvy. I'm not going to click anything stupid, or allow anything to download that I don't expect. Well, first of all, they updated the browser to ask you before downloading anything (they just did it a long time ago). But more importantly, what about a kid who is browsing the Web for the first time today? If they see a link offering them free Robux or whatever, they're not going to recognize it as sketchy. So they need those improved malware protections.

Remember, half of the people in the world are dumber than average.

[-] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

You are demonstrably wrong with literally every damn post here so I’m just going to assume you are mentally ill and move on.

[-] jakebrake@ohai.social 0 points 1 week ago

@muusemuuse @wyatt_h_knott

Counterpoint: No, YOU are wrong. This rant hits a lot of key points, and hits them well.

Related:

Number of times in my 60++ years I've had sensitive personal data compromised because I had a sucky password or didn't use MFA: ZERO.

ZERO.

Number of times due to some giant corpo server being hacked or them JUST SELLING OR GIVING AWAY MY DATA: DOZENS. That I know of.

Stop blaming the fucking victims.

[-] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I didn’t make that argument. Your passwords and MFA concerns are irrelevant to this.

[-] wyatt_h_knott@mstdn.social 0 points 1 week ago

@muusemuuse go fuck yourself you clueless fuck

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