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  • Firefox 149 is adding a built-in free VPN starting from March 24
  • It has a cap of 50GB of monthly data in the US, UK, Germany, France to start
  • Mozilla is also rolling out a set of new tools to boost productivity
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[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (10 children)

First peddling AI. Now vpns. My money is on they include world of tanks with popups from hello fresh or whatever next.

Our metrics show that you drive the car to the grocery store once a week... So we started growing kale in your back seat. Just wait until you see our new model the chicken coupe.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gambling is pretty popular these days. I vote for a gambling sidebar. And if you don't like it, you can just turn it off...

[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ugh. Sidebars. I feel like UI/UX ran out of good ideas and is staring to go full Caligula. A few more years and we'll be back to chonky xp UIs with 40% less space for the content you are trying to interact with.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We are already at chonky UIs, every webpage/app has 80% less information on the screen at any time than they did 20 years ago.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Not if youre on your phone!

Why their desktop version needs to look good on your phone, I'll never figure out...

[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

We can sell 80 percent of the screen WITHOUT inducing seizures!

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