So this happened: https://twitter.com/aral/status/1362062144003596293
And you can watch it unfold live on the recording of today’s S’update :)
Direct link to the exact time where I find out live that a company will rather remove the word “ethical“ from how they describe themselves on their site than stop enabling Facebook and Google to track and profile you:
@mdhughes Ooh, nice one, thanks! :)
@mdhughes @aral or in firefox add a bookmark `https://web.archive.org/web/*/%s` and fill in a keyword. For instance `wb` Then you can write `wb URL` in the address bar and it will go there.
@aral @mdhughes bookmark keywords always a hit 😜
It's too simple for mozilla to take credit for.
Cuts https://duckduckgo.com out of the loop, but they don't really have a place in it. (also, DDG a meta search engine)
@jasper @mdhughes @aral those keywords are getting demolished, sadly. mobile firefox removed support a few months back
( https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/12099 - closed with no fix, pointing us at desktop decision)
and desktop firefox really has no clue how powerful this is and will make this to be search engines in the future.
( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1653261 )
@jasper @mdhughes @aral well many people were raising concerns, many posted how they used the feature. The planned UI is mainly for search engines. Furthermore it seems to only work for a handful of these (but I have 20+ keywords!). Also so far no user-facing way of entering own things into that list has materialised. The word "demolished" wasn't chosen lightly. On mobile my workflow is very much broken already. I was using keywords heavily there as well.
@jasper This never worked for me in Firefox specifically for archive.org since %s will barf on full URLs (though I probably never tried just using a hostname)...
@galaxis ten boosts later: derp it's `https://web.archive.org/web/*/%S` (capital S doesn't barf on it?)
@jasper Huh. I never knew that 😀
@aral
So unfair for the #customers and #employees.
@poujolrost Not to mention the poor sods who’re getting tracked, profiled, and manipulated.
I just dipped into Mastodon and caught this.
Thank you, much smiling along,
and..
Don't chill!
Driving a carload of people you care about around in the darkness requires the lights to be on, right?
@aral this is so good 😂 live as well your reaction is awesome (will watch whole video when I get a mo - always miss your live short ones, will be on tomorrow for sure
@aral Browsing hundreds fo sites a day, i think to myself, the percent of true ethical sites (no trackers, fingerprintig, shady GDPR forms, etc...) is may be 1-2. Even worse - most of articles about privacy are in media that doesn't respect one itself.
@aral Annoying that the timecode doesn't work on the Mastodon embed.
(Also, I find it a bit odd that your accent sounds American, yet you pronounce the letter "o" in "Beyonk" correctly; most American accents go with "ah" or "or" instead of "o". Sorry if that's a bit personal).
@dheadshot I’m somewhat of a mutt ;)
@aral Protip: Use DDG,
!wayback URL
will take you right to the wayback page for a URL.