I was objecting to something specific in your comment. No need to get off the rails at me

Germany is not all of Europe, nor are Orban/Meloni/LePen/Nawrocki

Let them. Trust me, you’ll feel much better

The point is they should be fighting AI, not open the door even an inch to AI on their site. Like so many other endeavors, it only works because the contributors are human. Not corpos, not AI, not marketing. AI kills Wikipedia if they let that slip. Look at StackOverflow, look at Reddit, look at Google search, look at many corporate social media. Dead internet theory is all around us.

Wikipedia is trusted because it’s all human. No other reason

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RIP Wikipedia, we will miss you

Technically fine explanation but I’d add that it’s actually not less effort to be compliant, they would just have to stop fucking tracking their visitors and they don’t want to. Problem is surveillance capitalism ruining our internet, not regions having privacy laws protecting their citizens

They’ll keep trying until encryption is illegal

Context menu bloat was solved in W11 by hiding all those actions you do use behind a “more…” button 🤦‍♂️ TIHI

Alright, I get that. Interesting how this one comment got singled out tho

Oh come on, this one’s funny. Those downvotes. Did you really think this person was MAGA for a silly joke?

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This should be illegal

Lies

Two wrongs don’t make a right. Or are you denying Uyghurs are being persecuted?

Non-Jews are denied citizenship and thus disenfranchised. Textbook apartheid. Israel can be a Jewish state or a democracy, it cannot be both

Ban privacy invasive business practices instead of putting the burden on citizens to opt in/opt out. This is about rights of a European citizen not to be constantly under surveillance, not about consumers rights to sign away our rights in a contract.

They yearn for the mines!

Legitimate interest to train AI

How about regulation? Let’s start with saying data about me belongs to me, not to whoever collected the data, as is currently the case

None of that affects the average user. I’m talking about the experience as a browser. No ads, popups, cookie walls, newsletter signup, none of that. Much better than I’ve seen with Firefox plugins. I don’t use their VPN or crypto, it doesn’t affect me at all. Crypto is always shady but it’s a choice to engage with that, and they do make it easy to avoid completely