Your solution to people wanting to buy some specific drinks is "don't buy the thing you want, buy something else". Hardly an answer.
How to say this in a non aggressive, non condescending way…
You're stupid.
The thing stay open and out of the way. If it's in your face when you drink from the bottle, it means you lack the ability to rotate a loose plastic ring 90° (or even the whole bottle). If it's in the way of your pour, same thing.
They are as unobtrusive as it gets; and you going out of your way (with rage, it seems) to do something tedious like forcibly ripping them off or cutting yourself on smooth plastic instead of looking at it and moving it, effortlessly, in any position that would not hinder you, is the paramount of silliness.
I've seen live people actually starting a bonfire in their living room something like 20 years ago, so to me this is perfectly possible :D
This is not a subreddit, and this is the original article's title.
Firefox has a tendency to embed optional extensions as impossible to uninstall core features these days, so it would not change much.
Firefox has always had our backs
It's been going in a less friendly direction for a while. Embedding of mandatory useless extensions, aggressive advertising, deals to display more and more content to more users, disregard for user settings on multiple updates, opt-out telemetry, and now telling you that you're using it wrong.
Sure, you can navigate through various settings to disable most of these, and check back on updates for settings that toggles back, or are simply renamed and mysteriously got back to their default, intrusive value. But we should not have to do that.
And that's not even touching the issue with the Mozilla Corporation itself.
Firefox is the alternative browser, but it certainly isn't there to "have your back".
Because some people think that getting high as a kite is a suitable way to not be depressed.
Sure you can. You can also spend time disabling intrusive telemetry, you can also spend time reverting half the UI changes (not the other half though), you can also spend time removing integrated services you don't use but are still running, you can (regularly) change back some settings that gets reverted every once in a while, you can also block some IP to prevent intrusive ads, you can toggle off part of the "user experience" that bloat the lockscreen…
Or you could, I don't know, not have to do any of that and still have a working system that's not trying to bend you over.
I had the occasion to discuss with people involved with Microsoft a few times, mostly on the research front. Great people, with great ideas, and very knowledgeable about their field. Of course they had nothing to do with the lobbying and the windows OS. Microsoft is very large; the corporate drones are only a small part of it. Unfortunately, it's the part that decides what gets done and pushed out :(
There's a ton of great small scale things we can do with machine learning, and even LLM.
Unfortunately, it seems the main usages will be crushing people down even more.
Great, another victory of people keeping IP in closed box away from the public at the small cost of culture disappearing.
Humans loves to see patterns in everything.
I believe the appropriate, corporate-friendly answer in this case is "go fuck yourself"
I like the "encryption, but we have the keys" approach. Makes it very secure, especially since MS never had any security breach or leak, ever.
HTTPS isn't only about encryption; it's about talking to the right servers.
Yes, it is doable. But it also implies keeping track of individual sessions, to make sure you serve the right ad at the right time to the right people. Nothing impossible, but definitely more work to do per individual player, and on the scale of youtube this is quite a lot.
Streaming allow caching a bit ahead, yes. But the "a bit ahead" part does not mean you can get everything; a server could very well decide to not send more than a few seconds of buffer compared to the realtime play. So, if you're at 00:00:20 in your video and an 30 second ad is present in the video stream, the server could decide to not send anything beyond the 00:00:55 tag until 30 seconds have elapsed, for example.
It would be very annoying to code server side, and very annoying for people with spotty internet, but it's very doable.
Ads should be properly labeled in most market, so it should be trivial to detect what segment is ad and what isn't. The real question is, what to do, and if the server refuses to serve the remainder of the video before the ads duration, what will it be replaced with.