So what would the author of the article recommend using instead? I did not see any alternatives listed, though I may have missed it.
Posts by Criminny Rickets
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Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up
Google backs down after locking out Nextcloud Files app
Donald Trump proposes US govt acquire half of TikTok, which thanks him and restores service

National Security
Wasn't the point of shutting down TikTok or divesting Chinese ownership was to protect US National Security interests. Well there you go, easy fix, If they don't want the Chinese to know any national security secrets, don't post them to TikTok. There you go Donald, I just saves you 20 billion dollars. You can send some of those savings my way.
Judge tosses publishers' copyright suit against OpenAI
Every time a student reads a book, they are copying the information from the book into their brains. Every time one of those students goes on to create something based on what they learned from those books, it is creating a new work.
The AI is not reproducing the original book word for word, the same way a student when doing something, is not reproducing what they learned word for word.
Meta kills Facebook News in the US and Australia
Apple slams Android as a 'massive tracking device' in internal slides revealed in Google antitrust battle
Mint freshens up its Linux garden for Ubuntu and Debian fans
Amazon accused of being a monopolist in FTC lawsuit
I do quite a bit of shopping on Amazon myself. The biggest reasons I do so is that a number of the things I am looking for I am unable to find locally, or I can get a much better price for it on Amazon. I would rather pay an Amazon reseller $100.00 for something than pay a local company $500.00 for the same item.
Usually though, If I can get it locally at a decent price, I will buy local first.
Re: Ebay exists.
There's also Yahoo Search, DuckDuckGo and a few others. How is Google monopolistic if people decide to use them for doing their searches? Do they send squads out and force people to not use other search engines? It's peoples freedom of choice which search engine they use, so why should a company such as Google be penalized for people utilizing their own freedom of choice?
With version 117, Firefox finally speaks Chrome's translation language
Three signs that Wayland is becoming the favored way to get a GUI on Linux
Linux app depot Flathub may offer paid-for software
Mega's unbreakable encryption proves to be anything but
Why the Linux desktop is the best desktop
Something must be compelling for so many businesses to use Microsoft Windows
Software requirements.
I currently work at a place that uses a cloud based front end system. The system requirements are Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 version 1607 or higher, Microsoft.NET framework, and either Internet Explorer 11, Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome must be set as the default browser on the system, though they highly recommend Internet Explorer.
Attack on Titan: Four Japanese Manga publishers sue Cloudflare
Scam-baiting YouTube channel Tech Support Scams taken offline by tech support scam
Google fined €500m for not paying French publishers after using their words on web
Turnabout
Google should just pay the fine and negotiate a fee with the publishers, of course Google can then turn around and charge these same publishers a "nominal" fee for driving web traffic to their sites. If that fee Google charges the sites happens to be more than the publishers are charging Google, well, that is the cost of doing business on the web.
Biden order calls for net neutrality, antitrust action, ISP competition – and right to repair your own damn phone

Must be seen to be doing something
"signed a sweeping executive order directing government agencies to take steps"
So basically smoke and mirrors. Biden is directing the agencies to do something, but it is up to those agencies of whether to follow through. and by how much. So Biden can now say he did something, and if things don't happen the way people expect, he can turn around and say that he wasn't to blame.
Australian cops, FBI created backdoored chat app, told crims it was secure – then snooped on 9,000 users' plots
Red Hat pulls Free Software Foundation funding over Richard Stallman's return
What's the deal?
Now I don't know the full story about the hate on for Richard Stallman and am only going on the words attributed to him from this article..
"Stallman suggested Minsky might somehow not have known she'd been forced to do"
" he also referred to Epstein's victims as a "harem."
What is so bad about suggesting Minksy maybe not knowing the girl was forced?
As for the "harem" comment, if Epstein had a stable of girls, willing or not, that would still technically be a harem, so Stallman was not out of line with this comment.
Now I realize there is probably more to the story, but from just reading this article, I do not see anything that warrants these people being upset at the FSF over Stallman\s reinstatement.
Trump administration bans eight Chinese apps
Twitter, Mozilla, Vimeo slam Europe’s one-size-fits-all internet content policing plan
Internet Explorer fails to make the cut, banished from Microsoft Teams for good
Re: Still required in places
I wish, especially considering it has the look and feel of a program from the early 1990's. Like how can you have a program that can run only instance at a time. If I am using the editor, I can't open something else until I first close the editor. So I am not surprised that it requires Internet Explorer to run.
This is how demon.co.uk ends, not with a bang but a blunder: Randomer swipes decommissioning domain
Why?
Being from the other side of the pond, I was never a Demon subscriber, but do fondly remember, back in the day, visiting some sites on that domain. The yearly cost of a domain is not that much, and, as far as I know, it does not cost anything to have an extra domain on a mailserver. So my question is, why couldn't they just have kept the demon.co.uk subdomain running for the people that had that address, without accepting any new users of that domain?
You may be distracted by the pandemic but FYI: US Senate panel OK's backdoors-by-the-backdoor EARN IT Act
How many? 28 million fewer PCs and tablets to find a home in 2020

My older laptop has been acting up lately and I've been looking into getting a new one. My problem, they are asking WAY too much for what I am looking for. I'm not looking for a high end machine, just something I can read install Linux Mint on, read email, browse the web (with a few tabs open) , listen to music and watch or stream videos on. I also want to use it offline, which rules out Chromebooks. However, I am not going to pay over $600.00 CDN (354 GBP) for it.
Broadcom sues Netflix for its success: You’re stopping us making a fortune from set-top boxes, moans chip designer
LastPass stores passwords so securely, not even its users can access them
Google touts managed Linux, gets cosy with Dell in Chromebook Enterprise push
Watch as 10 cops with guns and military camo storm suspected Capital One hacker's house…

Darwin Award Contender
Wow, if she actually did as described in the story about doing the hack then logging into her Github account from the same VPN connection, the police didn't have to follow any breadcrumbs, they just had to follow the BIG red arrows the the words "Hacker Here" pointed right at her.
Facebook celebrates Independence Day by lighting up American outage maps
UK pr0n viewers plan to circumvent smut-block measures – survey
YouTube's pedo problem is so bad, it just switched off comments on millions of vids of small kids to stem the tide of vileness
'Occult' text from Buffy The Vampire Slayer ep actually just story about new bus lane in Dublin
The ink's not dry on California'a new net neutrality law and the US govt is already suing
Do not adjust your set, er, browser: This is our new page-one design
ICANN't get no respect: Europe throws Whois privacy plan in the trash
Slippery slope
"If they store data of Europeans it applies regardless of where they are based"
What if a pay grumble website is in a country with relaxed laws that says someone only needs to be 15 to view the content. Yet, in the EU, the law is that one has to be 18 to view such content. Does that website have to restrict people under 18 from seeing the content as it violated European law, even though it is legal in the country is is based? Can the EU fine that website for allowing under 18 yo's to get a subscription and view the content of the site, even though it is not based in the EU and is following the local laws?
US Supreme Court blocks internet's escape from state sales taxes
Oracle demands dev tear down iOS app that has 'JavaScript' in its name
Sorry spooks: Princeton boffins reckon they can hide DNS queries
What do Cali, New York, Hawaii, Maine and 18 other US states have in common? Fighting the FCC on net neutrality

Net Neutrality is not Net Regulation
Government is not taking over. The Net Neutrality rules do not regulate the Internet, they regulate the providers of said Internet to do just the opposite of net regulation. Net Neutrality says that providers cannot do anything to discriminate against internet traffic, be it VOIP, video sharing, file sharing, gaming etc. It is basically telling the providers that just as the government cannot, they also are not allowed to regulate the Internet.
ICANN gives domain souks permission to tell it the answer to Whois privacy law debacle
I was thinking along similar lines. Why not, when someone is registering a domain, have a clearly seen notice, notifying the person registering the domain of the following?
By continuing the domain name registration process, you implicitly agree to allowing your personal information such as name, address and phone number, to be publicly available to look up, in conjunction with your domain name. If you do not agree, you may cancel the domain registration. In addition, if at any point after registering, you change your mind and wish to make your information private, you may submit a domain cancellation and personal information purge request to your registrar. It may take up to 7 business days for information to be purged, to allow for propagation through the Internet backbone.
Mozilla whips out Rusty new Firefox Quantum (and that's a good thing)
Re: Got scared about losing extensions
Another that won't be ported, that I use quite frequently, is the ......
Update, I was going to say that DownThemAll Download Manager would not be ported, but upon checking the authors website, found that he will be doing so after all. but due to limitations in WebExtensions, it will be a scaled back version.
This is part of what he had to say...
Progress?
September 27, 2017
I decided to make a “lite” DTA web extension after all.
Of course, it will have serious limitations and far fewer features, but that’s a limitation of WebExtensions and what can you do?
On a maybe positive, it should be easy enough to support Chrome too (and Opera, etc?)