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  • Because hosting costs money, and sustainable services need revenue sources.

    News we read was put together by a team of journalists, editors, etc.

    Video streaming takes a lot of storage, bandwidth, processing, licensing.

    And so on.

    Price gouging is bad, but reasonable income is necessary.

    Billboard ads that don’t target users and don’t track effectiveness are dangerous financially for advertisers, and would pay much less to ad hosters.

    Anonymous, aggregated tracking is a healthy compromise.


  • Kudos for putting together good reasons that you don’t like PPA, while also acknowledging that Mozilla is trying to solve a problem.

    Yours is one of the very few reasonable objections I’ve read IMO - when the PPA outrage first erupted, I read through how it worked. Unique ID + website unaware of interaction, but browser recognizing, then feeding it to an intermediate aggregator that anonymizes data by aggregating from multiple users without sharing their IDs, with the aim of trying to find a middle ground seems fair to me. Especially with the opt-out being so easy.

    However, your points about classes clickbait encouragement, SEO feeding, and the uncertainty that this will solve the web spamminess as it is are valid concerns.





















  • No software is guaranteed to run on all platforms: the developers choose to make it available or not.

    I did some quick googling, and it seems fairly easy to install it:

    Use Ubuntu (if you’re not familiar with, and don’t want to be familiar with terminal basics), and install chirp from the Ubuntu App store. Snap is just a name of their package format, and their app store links to snap craft.

    If you’re not using Ubuntu, that’s your choice, you’ll either have to install snap, then do the same, but it’s more work. Or play with the terminal just a bit to follow their instructions.

    Details

    If you’re on Ubuntu or have snap installed - it’s a one click operation to install chirp: https://snapcraft.io/chirp-snap

    If you’re on another distribution by choice: https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/ChirpOnLinux

    this page has a 3 step install for mainstream Linux distributions:

    1. Install dependencies (they’ve listed the commands)
    2. Install chirp and Python dependencies (commands provided)
    3. Run chirp