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  • Mozilla has launched a paid subscription service called Mozilla Monitor Plus, which monitors and removes personal information from over 190 sites where brokers sell data.
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  • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    657·
    8 months ago

    I got downvoted to hell for saying it before, but what Ubuntu and Firefox are up to together is kinda what Microsoft went to court over Internet Explorer for in the 90s.

    Firefox is my go-to today, but I’m watching them closely.

    Edit: typical fanboy downvotes. The writing is on the wall. Mark my words y’all. In 2035 you’ll be saying “get off Firefox” like you’re currently saying “get off chrome”. I’ve seen this song and dance before.

    Also, look at this super cool not disgusting abomination of a bug that’s not a bug. Remap my fucking root directory?

    Read on

    • agent_flounder@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      8 months ago

      super cool not disgusting abomination of a bug that’s not a bug. Remap my fucking root directory?

      I am not convinced that’s what’s going on. It looks more like some weird thing snap does to make hunspell available to snap Firefox.

      Have you seen this behavior on your own Ubuntu install? In other words, can you reproduce the described scenario?

      • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        110·
        8 months ago

        Yes. I literally have a cron job to unmount and rename my root directory to / that runs every 12 hours.

        • agent_flounder@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          8 months ago

          That makes no sense. The bug listed shows the same device mounted to / and that spelling for in /var or whatever. And your system wouldn’t operate if / didn’t exist. I’m almost curious enough to go set up a VM to try to see what’s happening.

          • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            32·
            8 months ago

            My working solution is literally running a Cron .sh which is

            sudo umount /var/snap/Firefox/common/host-hunspell 2>/dev/null

Sudo snap disconnect Firefox:host-hunspell 2>/dev/null

            If Firefox updates via snap, it will change back to bullshit. Is the case in every 22.04 VM I have on my machine as well. This script effectively gives me “/” back, and unfucks the rest of my machine.

            It is a reason for me looking to leave Ubuntu after 12 years dedicated. Just because it makes no sense doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.