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I would not buy from someone who used a parcel service that just dumped my stuff outside.

There are four lights!

Does it work out for you? I'm German, and in theory the sticker has to be respected here too, but in my experience a lot of junk mail bets on me being too lazy to sue them.

Where would that be?

It does not. You can download and backup all your GOG installers, making the games functionally equal to games you purchased on CD ROMs back in the day. They can revoke your license all they want, they wouldn't be able to keep you from using the software you acquired this way. That makes all the difference.

We don't have Wal-Mart stores. They famously couldn't cope with our labor laws, clashed with the unions and couldn't compete with local retailers.

Mozilla's model would only "do something for privacy" if it replaced what we have today. Not if it just ran alongside the others. That's not absurd, it's reality.

That's not what this is. Neither Mozilla, nor anybody else, has any data tied to you.

That's the kind of data companies like Meta and Google (I'm sure among others I don't know) track and use to sell ads today . That is their entire business model. And they will not stop it of their own free will for an alternative that gives them less useful data than they had before.

Mozilla's model does nothing for privacy unless legislation forces companies to quit the current more invasive kind of tracking. But if it did that, we would have won and wouldn't need Mozilla's model either.

In their own words

PPA does not involve sending information about your browsing activities to anyone. This includes Mozilla and our DAP partner (ISRG). Advertisers only receive aggregate information that answers basic questions about the effectiveness of their advertising.

So, let's say I trust in everything they are saying, which is the absolute best case scenario, then they have done nothing for privacy, because the whole premise that ad networks only care about ex-post measuring the effectiveness of their ads is false. They could have done that long before.

They want to know who you are and what you do so they can sort you in categories and show you specific ads based on those. That's the service ad networks sell to advertisers. So, tracking as usual will continue.

They are not making ads private, they are adding another tracking vector. This will not get rid of the other ones already there.

There is no reason to trust Mozilla more with your data than anybody else.

I think people don't hate Mozilla, they want them to do better as there are not many options left if you care about privacy. It'd just be nice to not have to pick the lesser evil for once.

No.

"Tja..."

The same thing is in the terms and conditions for each of your old CD ROM games. The point is that they can't physically keep you from using the DRM free software that you backed up locally.

The perceived difference has nothing to do with the game being a "service" or that perpetual licenses are not economically possible for "services" but with the fact that by the power of the Internet companies now have a way to brick your stuff remotely. And you accepted it when they put it in instead of voting with your wallet. Because you wanted Half Life 2 just so so so badly.

They're doing it because they can, not because they have to.

The same software purchased digitally doesn't magically become a "service". Coincidentally, you can absolutely download and backup all your GOG games and then "own" them the same way you own your old CD ROMs.

That explains it and I did indeed overlook it. Thanks for the heads up.

Keep in mind that our voting system is actually built so the parliament represents the popular vote as closely as possible. It's not just an assembly of winners of individual "winner takes all" decisions. The average being above 0 in the graph should indeed mean left parties would be in the majority more often than not.

Edit: Another comment reminded me that the graphs only show 18-29 year olds. That explains it somewhat.

The gap sounds plausible, but I highly doubt the overall positions relative to 0.

E.g., the Federal Republic of Germany has had conservative chancellors for 51 years out of the 75 since it was founded. We did not have a constant left majority (I assume that is what they mean by liberal, since the actual sense of the term doesn't make sense as an opposite to "conservative").

Edit: I fucked up, this is only about people below 30.

Pretty sure it was some random Aldi commercial or sth.

Which means tips up to minimum wage are just extra money in the bosses' pocket.