This also means making your app work with the new features, so e.g. you may need to implement a flow to request certain permissions that you were previously getting automatically.

Hopefully that'll teach them to mind their own business instead of surveiling people's activity.

Absolutely not. They have way more money than they can sensibly spend, keep begging for more as if they could barely keep the lights on (they could probably easily keep the core mission going with about 10% of the money they're getting), and then expand their spending to match the donations they collected.

They then created an endowment (i.e. a pile of wealth that generates enough interest to sustain them indefinitely), using both additional donations and some of the money given to Wikimedia (which reduces the apparent amount of money they spend and is not listed as money Wikipedia/Wikimedia has, as it is accounted for separately). The $100M endowment was planned to take 10 years to build, got completed in 2021, five years before schedule. Wikimedia also has a separate cash hoard of almost a quarter billion dollars.

It's actually all in their article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#Finances

Claiming that they want to allow it is pretty worthless if it has been killed off for months with no fix (and no fix in sight)...

Without having read the whole thing, so I'm not sure how clear the article is about it: the important part is that donations to Mozilla go to the Mozilla Foundation, which does the political campaigning/social justice etc. stuff, while Firefox development happens in the Mozilla Corporation funded with search engine deals etc.

So again:

Donations to Mozilla do not go towards Firefox development

And this is why kids should grow up with increasingly restrictive parental control software. It's educational.

As usual, it's not a shortage of talent, it's a shortage of talent willing to be exploited.

The article explicitly explains that they "needed" to hire 25 foreign workers to deal with the shortage... after they made 50 local workers quit by cutting pay.

I'm sure there are worse, and it's not one company, but the companies that provide malware to dictatorships are pretty bad, and western countries are sheltering them/not doing much about them.

Examples:

• NSO Group (Pegasus)
• HackingTeam
• Gamma/Lench/Vilicius (FinFisher)

Many sites have little (real/legitimate) traffic outside of their country. Traffic from most countries also generates a lot less ad revenue per user than US or other "rich country" traffic. That means the sites have a limited motivation to allow access from other countries.

At the same time, allowing traffic from other countries may force them to deal with a lot of spam/hacking/DDoS/scraping/bot and general garbage traffic, and complying with foreign privacy laws like GDPR.

This makes it easier to just block the traffic.

This is particularly infuriating when it's a government web site and you're a citizen abroad trying to access an essential government service. (In those cases it's mostly done to avoid malicious traffic.)

US news sites often do it because they get little non-US traffic and their sites are absolutely infested with ads and trackers that they can't make GDPR compliant with any reasonable amount of effort.

It would already help if it didn't take them 5 years to close the loophole.

If they saw the loophole being exploited, immediately issued a new regulation with a 6 month (or less) transition period that doesn't affect most manufacuters (but potentially really screws the cheating one by requiring him to redesign a product shortly before launch) this would stop quickly.

Absolutely.

People don't care about it being growing pains or what will happen, they're trying it now.

Right now, you DO need multiple accounts. Instances are down all the time, federation either breaks or is intentionally broken through defederation even between relatively large instances, ... it gets tedious.

How many holes does a donut have?

Now make the donut higher. A lot higher. Now you have a donut-tunnel. Now make the walls thinner. Now shrink it. Now you have a straw.

One hole.

My guesses, in this order:

1. Confirmation bias
2. Carbon monoxide or mental health issues on your side (I'm being serious, don't rule it out).
3. Some low tech way (you're speaking very loudly, you somehow managed to broadcast to their Bluetooth speaker)

With a strong likelihood of it being 1, slightly less 2, unlikely 3 or anything else.