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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Firefox - More fire and fewer cancer warnings than California
 
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gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

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A big reason why I switched from Chrome to Firefox in the first place was because I read a piece about how Chrome was eventually going to change how it allows adblocking to no longer work (or not work as well as it does) with consumer-level browsers, which sort of makes sense if you're Google and adblocking is cutting into your own business.

Is the spectre of that still looking over Chrome? Would that also apply to anything else based on Chrome (Chromium?)

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gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

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NihilCredo posted:

Isn't Mullvad one of if not the best VPN provider from the point of view of privacy?

Like, they're the guys whose entire sign-up process is 'here's a random number, send us some money tagged with that number (an anonymous envelope full of cash is fine) and we'll enable that account until the credit runs out'.

That's... a surprisingly good choice by Mozilla if so.

Quoting this so I can switch VPNs later this month

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gradenko_2000
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Klyith posted:

If you need to keep flash working for something of critical importance that is local to you*, the answer is to install a separate instance of a different browser, for example an old version of chrome/chromium. Never use that browser for the general internet.

*ex: a hardware device with flash interface

If you need to keep flash working for something of critical importance on the internet, use a VM to run your out of date browser. Windows Sandbox is easily enabled on any win10 system. It is a giant hassle. Use that hassle as a reason to stop using whatever website still needs flash in 2021.

https://hk.appledaily.com/news/20210117/FLXATT4LKVBGVEBRLAECJPTCHM/

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The railroad system in Dalian, northern China, collapsed citywide on Tuesday for up to 20 hours after the Adobe Flash programing software stopped running.

Adobe had announced as early as 2017 that it would cease support for the multimedia software on Dec. 30 last year. The American software company eventually ended the operation of all Flash content on Tuesday.

Tuesday’s chaos arose after China Railway Shenyang failed to deactivate Flash in time, leading to a complete shutdown of its railroads in Dalian, Liaoning province. Staffers were reportedly unable to view train operation diagrams, formulate train sequencing schedules and arrange shunting plans.

Authorities fixed the issue by installing a pirated version of Flash at 4:30 a.m. the following day.
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