• Metal Zealot
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    1 year ago

    Wouldn’t that be nice, for a major corporation to denounce and actively deny a platform for a predatory industry that exists solely to take advantage of people’s addiction. I’d respect that

    • BolexForSoup
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      341 year ago

      Super anti-gambling industry but I don’t want my browser blocking me off from sites by default.

      • Bappity
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        301 year ago

        once a browser starts choosing to block sites for you as some stand in moral compass, things can only go downhill from there

        • BolexForSoup
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          41 year ago

          Exactly. Hell I’ll take a quick warning even that I can opt in/opt out. But I literally have a blocklist of gaming sites available I turn on with little snitch mini if I really want to. Point being it’s opt-in.

      • Metal Zealot
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        I get that ending the “prohibition” on gambling is good optics for the economy, it’s like legalizing pot. All the shady aspects of the industry are nearly eliminated, and assures a standard of quality.
        I guess I view gambling differently cuz… with pot or alcohol, you at least know what you’re going to get. And when working through addiction, its a lot more tangible of a thing to deal with.

        With gambling, you’re pouring money into something you’re not even guaranteed to get at all.
        And for some reason, Alberta loves to push gambling advertising really heavily.

    • @Overland
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      211 year ago

      I get what you’re saying, and agree that the gambling industry is predatory on its face, but isn’t the preference for Firefox over Chromium(amongst tech people on the fediverse) largely driven by the idea that the web should be an open platform with open standards that renders and functions the same on different rendering engines?

      • Metal Zealot
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        41 year ago

        True, sticking with foss morals definitely widens appeal and encourages firefoxes growth overall.
        I just thought it odd to accommodate for a service/industry that could completely care less, and isn’t generally something I thought the open source community would be interested in in the first place?

        Maybe i’m wrong

        • @dack
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          41 year ago

          They aren’t accommodating the gambling industry. It’s a bug fix for a media player issue. The text in the changelog comes from the bug report title. The bug isn’t specific to that site, and neither is the fix.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      They’ll just go to edge or chrome to get their fix. We already have the rising Y’all Queda to be the morality police, we don’t need Firefox copying that mentality