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feels like the whole browser is going that way. and like, everything else in real life is becoming infected with this madness.

love the wording and design choice of this stupid feature set. this is ass backwards, I’m not even a programmer or coder but I know its contrary to acceptable user interface convention. you have to toggle enable to block the AI shit nobody asked for, like its inevitable, waiting to embed its tendrils into your every interaction with the browser, but we’re giving you the option to not be one of the cool people (for now)

I’m pretty sure they changed the keyboard shortcut to open the extensions page within the last few version, breaking years of muscle memory. now it (Ctrl+Shift+A) opens some tab navigation crap.

also, fuck the new rapid version releases and now weekly patch bumps because of this mindless adherence to a ridiculously short, fixed rolling release window

also also, deleting multiple history entries through the Ctrl-H side menu is now completely broken, and it was already glitched badly for many years (would immediately deselect everything after selecting)

fuck Mozilla, they were the last holdout of sanity and stability in this fucked up devolving internet

I’m thinking a simple modification of “UC” which has always been the shortened version of “undercover” in police and spycraft vernacular

or, the 4chan Mind Virus really has infected the government so deeply that this is just another of their childish little signals to the rest of the frothing idiots

may they never have a moment of peace for the rest of their miserable fucking lives

the CEO, CTO, and IT project managers for the manufacturer of your machine are all going on the List✍️

copywrong 1990

Reaganites (vulgar) reinforced a political propaganda system using Contra (1987) 2-3 years before those pixels were even conceived

tankies in shambles (sarcastic)

yeah I’m with you on the rationale these companies use to force 2FA on everyone. I understand lots of internet users are sloppy and uneducated about the risks of easy and shared passwords and it has basically always been like that. I’d like to gtfo Google for good but this is not the moment for that (can’t delete the account anyway while it’s soft locked like this). and my current problem, I fear, is either never going to get fixed or will be at the mercy of whatever LLM bot Google has put in charge of support tickets.

yeah it was great! it came out of nowhere, no warning or announcements, no consent requested or opt-in offered.

I added an exception to my cookie and data clearing extension for the portal which, naturally, decides at random times to invalidate the session data, so I have to do the 2FA challenge anyway.

it’s not that serious.

yeah, it is. this never happened before and now I literally can’t change anything on my account to break out of this verification loop. it always worked in the past, always. and it hardly ever came up unless changing CC info or something sensitive. now I’m on stock, fresh installed official Android 17 and nothing is working, not even the alternate methods they offer to verify work. either an error or just… nothing. this is a fucking joke. quick search on reddit confirms others dealing with this exact scenario starting around 9 months ago.

it’s cool that this is all entertaining for you though, glad to hear it.

thanks for sharing! have wanted to watch a few of these for awhile, specifically the police bodycam phenomenon by Lindsay Ellis

former right-wing MAGA influencer Ashley St. Clair talked about this on Matt Bernstein’s podcast episode earlier this year, “I wanted to be a victim so bad” she openly admits at one point. sounds familiar, doesn’t it? one of the thousand things the reactionaries constantly project onto other groups in their culture war.

Amerikkkan right-wingers really are terrified of everything, scared of their own shadows, and have that childish persecution complex shared with the bigoted “”““Christians””“” which they form a perfect overlapping Venn circle with.

there’s a release day review video and the reviewer noted this too, details are spot on for the era! there’s a good focus on the things you mentioned around 11m 35s and you can see close-ups of the telephones around 13m 04s.

it’s my view that failure to punish shitheads is a result of mods and staff being part of said shitheads on their personal time (see also: slavecatchers peace officers police at protests)