Louis Rossmann

Timestamps and Generated Summary Below:

Video Description:

Links:

1. https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/Mozilla_introduces_TOS_to_Firefox
2. https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/Mozilla
3. https://librewolf.net/

Timestamps:

1. 00:00:00 - tl;dr solution use librewolf
2. 00:00:52 - my tl;dr thoughts
3. 00:01:08 - what mozilla did
4. 00:02:28 - mozilla crashed archive.org.....
5. 00:03:03 - Louis gets trolled by a monster
6. 00:03:56 - firefox' removes statement on not selling personal data.
7. 00:04:40 - terms were changed without explicitly alerting users
8. 00:05:08 - mozilla did this at the WORST POSSIBLE TIME
9. 00:07:05 - the worst communication policy
10. 00:07:14 - California consumer protection act
11. 00:08:03 - The suspicious part mozilla put in
12. 00:08:26 - What is "selling data" ?
13. 00:08:54 - Existing business practices exist in grey areas to CCPA
14. 00:12:46 - Just use librewolf to avoid all this....
15. 00:16:27 - Privacy policy is still fairly strong
16. 00:17:20 - How money for nothing destroys people & companies

Generated Summary:

This YouTube video analyzes Mozilla's recent controversial changes to its terms of service and privacy policy, arguing that the company's financial success has led to complacency and poor communication.

Main Topic: The video critiques Mozilla's handling of its terms of service update, focusing on the poor communication, the ambiguity surrounding data usage, and the potential conflict with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

Key Points:

• Poor Communication: Mozilla's announcement and explanation of the changes were poorly worded, confusing, and caused significant user backlash. The changes were implemented before users were notified.
• Ambiguous Data Usage: The updated terms, while not explicitly stating Mozilla sells user data, created the impression that it might be doing so, particularly in light of the CCPA's broad definition of "selling data." The video highlights the existing practice of sharing data with partners like Google in exchange for financial compensation.
• Financial Complacency: The core argument is that Mozilla's substantial financial stability (largely from Google's payments to be the default search engine) has led to a lack of urgency and accountability. High executive salaries are cited as evidence of this complacency.
• Alternative Browser: The video promotes LibraWolf, an open-source fork of Firefox that removes telemetry and sponsored content, as a privacy-focused alternative.
• CCPA Compliance: The video discusses the CCPA and how Mozilla's practices, particularly its data sharing with Google, might fall into a gray area of compliance.

Highlights:

• Comparison of Mozilla's old and new FAQ pages regarding data selling, showing the removal of the "we don't sell your data" promise.
• Analysis of the CCPA's definition of "selling data," demonstrating how Mozilla's existing practices could be interpreted as violating it.
• Discussion of Mozilla's revenue streams, emphasizing the reliance on Google's payments and investment income.
• Contrast between Mozilla's approach and Brave's proactive marketing campaign to address ad-blocker issues.
• The presenter's personal preference for LibraWolf due to its default privacy settings.
• The presenter's assertion that Mozilla's problems stem from financial success leading to atrophied communication and responsiveness.

About Channel:

I started as a studio repair technician at Avatar & started a Macbook component level logic board repair business. This channel shows repair & data recovery work & shows how to perform these repairs step by step. There are many outside forces that make it hard to fix things now; willful actions from manufacturers to limit access to parts & schematics. I talked about this to try and spark mainstream recognition of the "Right to Repair" movement.

I realized that restrictions placed on repair were just a canary-in the-coal-mine for many of the anti-ownership, anti-consumer practices that would become common in every industry, which I discuss & try to push back against every day.

Welcome! This page is very large and there are many steps, please take your time. If you would like to edit (you're welcome to fix errors even without an account!), please read this first. Thank you!^[[1] https://wiki.futo.org/wiki/FUTO:About]

Preface

Dedication

Thank you to Tim Gilles, aka Slipperman, whose remarks on what makes someone a “real professional” stuck with me for a lifetime. I listened to Tim on the mixerman radio show. Tim wanted to demystify his craft in a way that anyone could understand; that would inspire EVERYONE to pick up a microphone & a tape machine and give it a shot themselves. He did this with his own “unique” writing style. His work inspired me to do the same with everything I’ve done, from board repair to self-managed servers. Tim passed away two years ago. I hope his legacy lives on through everyone who tries to open doors for the next generation rather than gatekeep information via ego inflating elitism.

Picture of Tim Gilles, aka Slipperman:

Intro

I started using GNU/Linux in 2002, back when I saved up the $79.99 necessary to buy SuSE Linux 8.1 Professional as a boxed set from the Best Buy across the street from the Staten Island mall for my 14th birthday. I started hosting my own servers in 2005, and put together systems for my own business’ use since early 2011. I didn’t do everything outlined here immediately; it was slowly built piece by piece over a long time. I never documented it in a way that would allow my grandma to use it. In 22 years, I can’t remember reading GNU/Linux documentation that felt like it was designed for normal people. That’s what I’m looking to do here.

Image of SuSE Linux 8.1 Professional:

From 2002 to the present, two things remain true:

-You can do cool things with GNU/Linux.

-These cool things are hidden behind a labyrinth of

• Half baked software.
• Horrible UI.
• Forum elitists & gaslighting assholes who will make you think YOU’RE the crazy one for expecting things to work.
• People that will tell you to “RTFM” with no regard for whether that documentation actually works.
• black boxes. I mean literally hidden behind actual black boxes. For six months. Unfixed. On the stable version of a server operating system (that bug is present in 24.10 long-term-stable even today).

So much of the open source user experience is not designed for normal people. Whether it was using NDISwrapper 20 years ago to get wifi to work or messing with SCSI emulation to burn a CD, GNU/Linux is pain. It’s all pain.

It’s painful enough that people will happily trade their data, sovereignty, privacy, and their rights to avoid ever having to deal with it; and I can’t blame them.

This has to change. As of 2024, most of you live your life:

1. Dependent on closed source software.
2. Running on someone else’s server where you can be kicked off at any time.
3. Forced into forced arbitration or your device won’t work anymore.
4. With no privacy.
5. Training AI with your creations.

Now is a time like no other for you to feel empowered to build systems that you control & understand.

My goal with this guide is not to tell you the way you HAVE to do something, or to imply that my way is the best. My goal is to inspire you by showing you what’s possible. You don’t have to be a computer engineer or someone with an IQ of 160 to figure this all out. And, admittedly, to inspire capable developers to look at the pain points scattered throughout this guide (of which there are many) and decide “enough is enough; let’s make this better”.

The fun here is in building your own system, your own way. This is my sovereign cloud; there are many like it, but this one is mine. I can’t wait to see how you build yours.

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I love Louis and I've been following his videos for a long time. What he does is supremely important to our messed up society.

But here's the thing: for the past few months, I've had the distinct feeling than each of Louis' videos is slightly more unhinged than the previous one.

I mean I'm fully aware Louis' videos are not mainstream, and until recently, I've always felt there was a clear method to the randomness. But lately, it¨s been more randomness than method for me, and it's reached a point where I feel it's doing a disservice to the causes of right to repair and sovereign ownership.

Am I the only one who feels this way?

I really hate to come out saying this, but I really think there's something going on with Louis, and beyond the causes he fights for on our behalf - and goodness knows I'm eternally grateful for what he's achieved - I'm honestly a bit worried for him.

So I downloaded Futo Voice Input: this thing is the best piece of software I've tried in a very long time. It work fabulously well, it works offline, it's open-source, it gives Google the finger... What's not to love eh?

So I went to pay for it - because frankly, $10 for all that is cheap. But lo, I have to pay through... Google Play.

...

Really? Come on...

This is a piece of software specifically designed to help me escape the Google surveillance collective and the only way you found to get a reward for your efforts is to ask me to open a Google account to pay you?

Louis repairs a marital aid.