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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.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Happy Halloween, fellow sneerers!)
Firefox: “hey, ‘member old internet? Use our slopshod browser because nostalgia is the crutch of all marketing.”
Anyway, linked vid is an ad. In it, a bunch of people from old memes/viral videos recreate the visuals of their past moments while singing the praises of firefox
Well the youtube comments seem to like it but IMO that is a pretty awful ad since it didn’t use the opportunity to highlight their product. It practically shows more reasons not to use firefox than to use it.
We hear that firefox is private in some unspecified way, and… that’s about it. The rest of the ad is talking about how everyone left it in the first place, that it comes bundled with default-enabled AI stuff you don’t want, and that the internet you might want to use it with no longer exists. Talk about a self own.
Why did they not talk about customizability? Compact mode? Adblock support? Colors and theming? Syncing? Anything at all???
Too bad our old friend Kirk Johnson couldn’t make it in
My guess is he wanted them to bend over, compensation wise. It was an eye-opening shocker of a price.