It’s amazing to me that people are often ecstatic about their own lives and experiences being made worse, and then how fervently they will outright lie about it. But first, someone says this about modern Firefox and is thoroughly downvoted on Ars Technica despite being 100% correct:

And then one commenter comes in and says something that is absolutely not possible to do:

That’s the whole fucking point. It’s impossible to make Firefox behave like it should anymore; you can’t alter the browser itself at all any longer and soon, you’ll barely be able to alter what it does to pages — which, you know, is the fucking point of extensions in the first fucking place. And then to have disphit busted-brain mooks lie to you about it is what is particularly galling.

I remember when computers and browsers worked how the user wanted, not how the advertisers in control of them wanted. It wasn’t that long ago, but apparently most people have completely forgotten this and want you to expel it from memory too. I was dispirited by how easily people bought the “we must harm you for your own good” security lie about why XUL had to go with no similar-but-more-secure replacement. It doesn’t even pass the sniff test but people are extremely, extremely susceptible to even very obvious propaganda, especially if they are paternally told they must be harmed because it’s for their own good.

That’s why those extensions were worth a damn! I could control what happens with and to my browser. Now it’s all in the hands of advertising and marketing companies in the ever-present liberal “for my own good.”

Fuck all y’all.