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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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    4 months ago

    ah yes, flashbacks to when they bought pocket and instantly forced it on everyone

    where you had to remove the ui icon, untick shit in settings, and then STILL go into about:config to kill even more things there. which I just wanted to share, but then found that apparently at some point my old settings got nuked? or decommissioned or something? and others reinstated/introduced? because none of my changes for that are there anymore

    sigh

    also, their push to telemetry, to labs, to getting people to cohort into running things, them pushing selective bans on plugins because of legal pressure in countries, their absolutely fucking awful track record in spending their cashflow on utter and complete bullshit instead of actually improving the browser, …

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      4 months ago

      go into about:config to kill even more things there. which I just wanted to share

      Well, looks like my custom pocket settings are preserved, if they’re useful to anyone:

      browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.section.highlights.includePocket				false	
      extensions.pocket.api										0.0.0.0	
      extensions.pocket.enabled									false	
      extensions.pocket.onSaveRecs									false	
      extensions.pocket.settings.test.panelSignUp							v1	
      extensions.pocket.showHome									false	
      extensions.pocket.site										0.0.0.0	
      services.sync.prefs.sync.browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.section.highlights.includePocket	false