This guy explains it better than I can:
Basically Mozilla is getting out of the browser game.
Time to go dot hunting!!1
Yea, I think at this point it could just be turning new posters away. Being able to have something to aim for and have a carrot for contributing good content is great for everyone.
I’m honestly confused what I would have todo at this point. If it was for an infraction, that was a long time ago and quite honestly, was unfair. Regardless, it’s in the past and I’d like to have those features again.
I posted vids just fine back when I was T2 and I don’t do any of that mobile online stuff.
FF is open source, so it will never shut down, but Mozilla is not putting much in the way of new functionality, leading a lot of people to suspect big change, or big vanish.
Have a few friends using Brave. Haven’t tried it, but have heard mostly good things.
I refuse to believe this. if this was true it would be all over youtube. just seems like youtube clickbait taken out of context.
it would be all over news sites. its nowhere.
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Possibly becauuuuuse…the Trust Level system keeps people from spinning up a new character and posting a bad link? Since a forum action is accountwide.
I remember WAY back in the day, some people thought it was lulzy to post bad links on the forums, some goldsellers found it was a good way to capture account info through trap door sites loaded with malware too. The posts tended to disappear fairly fast, but often not before some damage was done.
I want to say that it was closer to like a year ago, people who had Beta access for…Shadowlands? Got permanent TL3 due to a forum bug, no matter what they did, and it was accountwide.
They fixed that, and everyone who shouldn’t have had it had it drop off - either because they never met the requirements, hadn’t met the requirements recently, or got a forum suspension in the last 6 months.
Brave is a chromium based browser and is thus still beholden to the whims of Google. I imagine at some point it will lose the ability to block ads, but who knows.
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The world already cost me my Netscape Navigator, so I am no longer emotionally invested in browsers. 
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It’s about engagement farming forum goers and encouraging people to fall in place that’s conducive to positive PR.
It’s a feature for businesses, not consumers.
Same way certain people defend bad game design and consistently gaslight or sabotage conversations on such, in the hopes of being on the community council or staying on such.
That looks like utter propaganda drivel full of buzz words from some right wing fringe. I do not see any reputable news org or source listed.
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yeah sites like arstechnica would definitely cover it. no newsstory anywhere.
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I mean, Lunduke is pretty reputable, but you believe what you want.
Yea, that’s what came up for me. I really need to find an alternative for Youtube content. The ads have become way too aggressive. Multiple unskippable ads in a row or ads every 3-4 minutes is getting to be ridiculous. While I get the content creators control some of that, it’s just gone over the top in the last year.
you did this last time with another article and it didnt come true. same persons videos. iof mozilla was leaving the browser game it would be ALL OVER the internet.
ublock origin.
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What are you even talking about?
you linked him a couple months ago in ANOTHER PREDICTION video of sorts that turned out to come to nothing. I remember it.
Yeah, I will wait for some of the reasonably reputable mainstream tech sites to cover it. They may not be perfect, but usually are closer to the mark. I can then cross check between them - and source info from Mozilla when/if they declare plans. Direct source is of course best source. I want to hear it from Mozilla, not from someone with click bait buzz words.
Yep. I have no ads on things.
Firefox is literally the continuation of NN.
The codebase was so bad for netscape 4. they rewrote it, but the company folded during such, and version 5 punted out to the mozilla organization.
Netscape navigator technically went to version 9, and used the same engine from version 6 onwards as firefox to do so. Well, if we want to be super technical, firefox didn’t exist until much later, but firefox was mozilla browser suite before it was firefox.
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whoa whoa whoa…