'It is the most extensive and well-preserved footprint locality of its age'

'potential groundwater contamination and carbon dioxide leaks'

'This has not moved the needle'

Trump did not make any statements of opposition against the Iraq war until a 2004 interview with Esquire.

'What an extraordinary young man'

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Due to its past status as a bastion of user and privacy-respecting free and open-source technology, Firefox (Mozilla) veering off in the opposite direction (or being perceived as such) always causes a commotion. The latest controversy is building around a feature known as “Privacy-preserving attribution” (PPA), which is trialed as a prototype in the browser’s version 128. The very name sounds like a PR spin, given that PPA has everything to do with advertising, specifically, providing advertisers with Firefox users’ interaction data – although the privacy angle is supposed to be that this data is “anonymized.” Related: How “anonymized” data is a myth This, coupled with the fact that Firefox has been working on this with none other than Meta, inevitably provoked a backlash. Still, Firefox CTO Bobby Holley took to Reddit to defend the feature with a lot of big ideas and promises. The gist of the argument presented by Holley is that Firefox is out to produce an “industry-wide privacy-preserving mechanism” and that this will somehow continue to line ad industry’s pockets and protect user privacy. As to why users might have thought differently when PPA was announced, Holley blamed “insufficient communication” from Mozilla. The Reddit post goes into how the internet is now “a massive web of surveillance,” and that Firefox’s previous idea for how to do something about it – namely, anti-tracking features – is lacking. The reason is that advertisers can find ways to bypass them, and, it “only helps the people that choose to use Firefox” (and that’s at this point a small number of people in the overall browser market share). So, Holley is suggesting that Firefox is not only hell-bent on protecting people’s privacy but also generous toward everyone – hence the ambition of creating an “industry-wide mechanism.” The Firefox CTO claims that PPA is basically an alternative to collecting “a bunch of personal data,” while still allowing advertisers to keep making a bunch of money. And – “We’ve been collaborating with Meta on this, because any successful mechanism will need to be actually useful to advertisers, and designing something that Mozilla and Meta are simultaneously happy with is a good indicator we’ve hit the mark.” But working with Meta, notorious for its unscrupulous personal data collection policies, and making this software that’s baked in as “opt-out,” as well as the general slippery-slope nature of such schemes, continues to rub users the wrong way. Says Holley: “The prototype is temporary, restricted to a handful of test sites, and only works in Firefox. (…) It’s about measurement (aggregate counts of impressions and conversions) rather than targeting.” And you can disable it by unchecking the option under “Website Advertising Preferences” in the settings “Privacy & Security.” If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Firefox Faces Backlash Over New Data Collection For Advertisers appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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Comedy Central’s The Daily Show took the air early Friday morning for a live reaction show to day four of the Republican National Convention. Host Jordan Klepper was not happy that Republicans are simultaneously claiming that God spared Donald Trump’s life on Saturday while continuing to reject gun control. Introducing a montage of conservative media personalities, Republican politicians, and Trump campaign officials, Klepper declared, “This one seemed to have a higher purpose.”     After the montage, Klepper returned to quip, “If God did save Trump from that bullet, he kind of procrastinated till the last second, didn't He? He could have stopped the gunman at any point during the day, but instead, he waited until the bullet was in the air and went, ‘Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit! That was close. I got to stop looking at my phone all the time.” Later, Klepper played a clip of vice presidential nominee JD Vance’s acceptance speech, where he recalled his family discovering 19 loaded handguns in his grandmother’s house after she died. A displeased Klepper reacted, “Yeah, that's the American spirit! Unhinged paranoia! You know what, I love how gun nuts in this country are always like, ‘We're responsible gun owners. Anyway, here is a Glock I taped under my baby's crib.’" He further mourned that the attempt on Trump’s life hasn’t changed Republicans’ stance on gun control, “Let me just remind everyone that five days ago, their nominee was almost taken out by an assault rifle and I thought that might lead to a moment of introspection. But you guys are like, ‘You know what's hilarious? How guns are everywhere!’" Liberals had a similar reaction after the GOP Congressional baseball shooting, but if Republicans still oppose gun control, maybe they should consider whether such oppositions are genuine and not because the big, bad NRA is pulling their strings.  Here is a transcript for the July 19 show: Comedy Central The Daily Show 7/19/2024 1:35 AM ET JORDAN KLEPPER:  This one seemed to have a higher purpose. SEAN HANNITY: This convention is happening, frankly, by the grace of God. ANNA PAULINA LUNA: It is a divine intervention by God that President Trump is not dead right now. CORY MILLS: This is divine intervention. CAROLINE SUNSHINE: The bullet pierced President Trump at 6:11 PM. Ephesians 6:11 tells us "put on the full armor of God, take your stand against the Devil and his schemes." ROGER MARSHALL: This was Providence. NARSGA BLACKBURN: God’s divine providence. ROB SCHMITT: A millisecond before he fired the shot, a little tilt. RIC GRENELL: A God-given tilt. A God-given tilt TIM SCOTT: If you didn't believe in miracles before Saturday, you better be believing right now. BEN CARSON: That God lowered his shield of protection. KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE: God has put an armor of protection over Donald Trump. SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS: God is not finished with him yet. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: I believe we all witnessed a miracle, literally. From, you know, before it happened, the flag above got blown in the wind and it got tied into literally what looked like an angel. KLEPPER: Divine origami? That is what we are going with? I mean, you see an angel. I see the G-string from the cover of that Black Crows album. You see what you want to see, but I don't mean to nitpick God, but if God did save Trump from that bullet, he kind of procrastinated till the last second, didn't He? He could have stopped the gunman at any point during the day, but instead, he waited until the bullet was in the air and went, "Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit! That was close. I got to stop looking at my phone all the time.” … KLEPPER: Yeah, that's the American spirit! Unhinged paranoia! You know what, I love how gun nuts in this country are always like, "We're responsible gun owners. Anyway, here is a Glock I taped under my baby's crib."  Let me just remind everyone that five days ago, their nominee was almost taken out by an assault rifle and I thought that might lead to a moment of introspection. But you guys are like, "You know what's hilarious? How guns are everywhere!"