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Steve asked how can Firefox and Signal afford to be free? The answer is they can’t. My wife and I donate to Signal regularly, I think I donated around 40€ last year for Signal. In 2023 I donated 100€ to Firefox, I stopped using it shortly thereafer as my main browser, so I haven’t donated since - it wasn’t working properly on my Mac and I have been mainly using Safari and Brave.
The products and services can be paid for, they willingly accept donations. If more people donated, maybe they would have to have less sponsored content… You pay you money and take your choice, as the old saying goes.
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Leo,
Why not use Brave? No need to give up Ublock Origin.
Steve,
I found a great browser that is now my default.
Librewolf. I switched to this before I even knew about
the new Firefox Privacy statement.
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Regarding the use of SSDs in production environments, we have SANs full of SSDs, we have SSD for OS and database storage and spinning rust for long term storage or document storage. These are server SSDs and are very robust.
With 5 SANs with SSDs, we had 1 spinning rust drive fail and zero SSDs in the last 5 years, all running 24/7. Likewise on our NAS devices, they are all spinning rust and we have lost 1 drive over the last 8 years.
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I can understand trusting Mozilla over Google, but why would you be OK with one company having and selling anonymized data and not the other? Does Steve believe that someone like me can call Google and buy data about him specifically?
Personally, I’m on Brave and have enjoyed it for about 5 years now. Never once have they spammed me to re-enable any of the Web3 features that make people uncomfortable. They show ads on the new-tab page, and that gets them paid. It’s either me or the sponsors and a JPG is more than acceptable to me. Ads should be nothing more than static images. JS is where the whole problem started.