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I'll keep using firefox simply because I keep it behind a proxy server with all pocket, mozilla, firefox and google domains blocked.

The larger impact I suspect this will have in my life, is that I'll increasingly turn to not using websites, opting instead to using tools like yt-dlp.

These changes didn't just happen because of a bunch of greedy ad pushers. This and many other changes over the last few decades came about by taking my tax money and pouring it into these companies to gain compliance to state agendas. This isn't something the 'community' will be able to stave off.

If the internet is just going to become another medium like TV, Radio and newspapers were for so many years, adding on top the ability of the producers to watch me watching them, then it's over. The tech community is full of intellectual dishonest sellouts. Game over. Let's push letsencrypt again in response to the state backdooring the certificate authorities, duuurrr. "AI", duurrrr.

It means that the state got a two-for-one deal.

Oh, I'm pretty sure they are working hard to keep this off the front page of HN. Fragment the submissions, claim they are all dupes, whatever it takes.

Gotta make sure all the community products keep up to speed with the corporate products being forced by the state to collect data. Just dabble in a color revolution to change out the leadership, then slowly undermine the privacy.