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Firefox is on the brink of being dropped by the US Government (www.brycewray.com)
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[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh it will be far worse this time.

[–] inverted_deflector@startrek.website 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Remember when websites could open infinite windows, and prevent you from backout out or closing windows?

Even if things get really bad, they wont get that bad. Also dont forget flash meant the ads were media rich, security hole ridden, cpu spinning, awful monsters as well.

[–] Venat0r@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

It wasn't that bad, you just have to reformat your pc every other week and have a second air gapped pc with anything important 😂