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The rest of the industry uses embargo agreements with mutual consent if they have private information. This doesn't change anything for other game companies, unless they also want to do private-but-not-private beta tests.

They did ask Valve:

Though Valve didn’t respond to my requests for comment

Valve barely talks to press anyways, in a very similar fashion as Apple. At worst, maybe The Verge won't get a Steam Deck 2 review unit ahead of time or something.

Yep, tech and game companies use invite-only systems to generate hype constantly. Bluesky is another recent example.

That's not how this works. The Verge didn't break an NDA or embargo because they didn't get either of those things. Valve allows random people to invite other random people to play, with just a "pretty please don't talk about this game" warning. There was already people talking about it online and leaked footage.

They didn't get an NDA.

Stock price is largely about future earnings potential, not current quarter or past results. That's why a company can have record-breaking earnings, but still eat shit in stock price for a while if it lowers predictions for next quarter.

The layoffs were announced at the same time as Intel's Q2 financial results: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/actions-accelerate-our-progress.html

If you want to beat inflation, dump the money in a high-yield savings account, or a 401k, or a stock index, or any of the other options that have something resembling banking protection/regulation. There are so many better options than a speculative investment that you lose entirely with a social engineering attack or a SIM swap.

Bitcoin's value is significantly more volatile than the US Dollar.

Okay, not the point.

Some of the "drawbacks" are the only way Firefox works as well as it does. If Mozilla didn't have usage telemetry data, automated crash reports, etc, Firefox would be a much worse application. This is how modern software development works when you have millions of users across a dozen or more platforms.

Firefox is faster than Chromium in many benchmarks, depending on the OS: https://arewefastyet.com/win10/benchmarks/overview?numDays=60

LibreWolf only exists because Mozilla does all the actual development and runs all the infrastructure. That's like saying the US Virgin Islands should take over the rest of the United States.

I agree that advertising companies take too much off the top and a lack of competition has probably made that worse. That's also an issue with a lot of publishers, many of them make buckets of money but still pay writers/editors/other staff poorly. That's just normal capitalism stuff that won't be fixed until there's a major global economic shift.

In fact prior to the Internet there was no third party advertising middle man between say newspapers and the actual advertisers paying for ads.

Right, because there were very few newspapers, and all of them were well-known enough that finding advertisers was not difficult. Independent creators and smaller publishers don't have the brand recognition or massive initial audience to make that happen. You can see this in action with a lot of YouTube channels; most of them only have access to YouTube's own ad system and offers for in-video ads from shady companies and mobile games (Better Help, Raid Shadow Legends, Opera, etc).

If websites want my business they’ll support my browser.

Sure, but that goes both ways, which is the part where you start losing a lot of privacy evangelists and Firefox fans. You are entitled to full control over your device and browsing experience, and sites retain the right to block browsers interfering with ads, trackers, or whatever else the sites use to pay the bills. A lot of people want it both ways and that cannot work at scale.

PPA is potentially something that other browsers could adopt if it works and advertisers are reasonably happy. Maybe it won't come to Chrome/Chromium, but I could definitely see Apple being interested and adding it to Safari.

Google worked on Privacy Sandbox/Topics API/FLoC for at least five years, and it couldn't get something that advertisers, regulators, and users could all agree on, so it's just falling back to the thing that worked (but has next to zero privacy protections). Sigh.

"Fortnite and Tekken 8 are running on the same engine designed for... Unreal Tournament 20 years ago."