The Register has some great advice for Mozilla

See this article by Liam Proven at the Register. Mozilla, please stop aping Chrome. Copying is rarely the way to win big. The Australis Chrome-like theme in Firefox 29 annoyed users and was a driving force behind Pale Moon. Firefox Quantum killed XUL addons, and drove The Reg FOSS desk to Waterfox Classic. Others went to Basilisk instead, while XP users have MyPal. Even Microsoft's Chrome-based Edge has vertical tabs. Firefox doesn't, and to make them well, you must mess around with config files, although we still feel it's worth it. The Vivaldi browser shows that there is still plenty of room to outdo Chrome on features, and a market of people who want for them. Can we please have a Firefox that leans into being the browser for power users? Bundle some of the more powerful extensions that survived your self-inflicted extension extinction event. Vertical or tree-structured tabs, on any edge. Menu bars and hotkeys. Multithreaded downloads, even integrated BitTorrent support. Perhaps experiment with this stuff in the Firefox developer edition. Bring back the customizability it once had, which you've been steadily removing for years. Yes yes yes! I still use Mozilla almost exlusively on my Mac, and I use tree style vertical tabs, which are so much better, but I had to customize Mozilla so much!

California Legislature passes Delete Act regulating Data Brokers

From iapp, Alex LaCasse, Senate Bill 362, which has been signed fixes a loophole in the California Consumer Privacy Act. the Delete Act would empower the CPPA to develop a system by 2026 that allows residents to make a single data deletion request across the nearly 500 registered data brokers operating in the state They should put it into effect today! In fact this should be federal. And not just data brokers, but social media sites should have to delete on request and should not be able to sell your data.

Why is Mac sync to iPhone so damn bad and so damn slow!

I have been syncing my mac to the iphone since the iphone first came out, and the problem is that it has never gotten better. I sync a bunch of live music that isn't available on streaming, so I sync to my computer Iplus it means my phone is backed up with passwords so if I restore I get my full working phone, which people on iCloud do not, they have to re-enter all passwords), but the actual sync is so awful. First off unless you turn cellular, wifi and bluetooth off, the sync takes forever, but if you turn it off it is very quick, we are talking muti-hour sync vs 30 minute sync so it is huge. Why can't apple fix this? Obviously they don't care at all. I hate having to do workarounds, but syncing my iphone with my mac via lightning cable means I have to switch my phone to airplane mode and that is fucking bullshit! If Airplane mode fixes the issue, then Apple could easily fix it, and they don't care, as they do not want you to backup locally or put your own music on your iPhone.