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Mozilla is too bad no more. It became some kind of weird AI company. Believe me, Firefox is not the future anymore. Try to go to a fork asap, now you still can.

Use Fork of Firefox*

After facing backlash earlier this month, PayPal PYPL +1.9% rescinded a line in its policy stating that spreading misinformation on the platform would be subject to a $2,500 fine. Today, the remaining language leaves users and elected officials demanding more clarity over how the platform defines fine-worthy speech.

A part of PayPal’s user agreement that says any customer in violation of the platform’s “acceptable use” policy is subject to a $2,500 fine has been in place since at least 2013, according to the website’s archive. The fine had largely gone unnoticed until earlier this month when PayPal updated its acceptable use policy to state that messages which are “fraudulent, promote misinformation or are unlawful” are in violation of the policy and, by extension, subject to the fine. The “acceptable use” policy stated that determinations of which messages violated the policy would be made at “PayPal’s sole discretion.”

After drawing intense backlash from commentators stating that the policy could infringe upon free speech, the company rescinded the line in the policy citing misinformation and issued a statement saying it was posted in error on Monday, October 10. “PayPal is not fining people for misinformation and this language was never intended to be inserted in our policy,” a spokesperson for the company said. PayPal’s former president David Marcus was among dissenters, posting a tweet objecting to the policy update, which was amplified further when Elon Musk responded “Agreed.”

“PayPal’s new AUP goes against everything I believe in,” Marcus’ tweet reads. “A private company now gets to decide to take your money if you say something they disagree with. Insanity.”

The note about misinformation was removed from the acceptable use terms, but the $2,500 penalty for violations remains, causing continued concern.

PayPal’s website still lists “provide false, inaccurate or misleading information” under the “restricted activities” portion of its policy. Violating the “restricted activities” portion does not result automatically in the $2,500 fine that breaching the “acceptable use” agreement does, but it may still result in charges, account suspension or other punitive actions.

Unfortunately for PayPal, now that the $2,500 fine has landed in the public eye, it has fallen under close scrutiny. “Concerned about this language still in PayPal’s terms of service – it’s vague and seems like it could be weaponized to control speech,” Representative Tom Emmer (R - MN) wrote in a tweet on Thursday.

The ordeal has spurred a call for people to delete their PayPal accounts with #PayPalCancelled and #DeleteVenmo gaining momentum on Twitter. Where the policy finally lands may be especially relevant to PayPal’s Venmo, a peer-to-peer payments network with a social media feed where users share messages attached to their public transactions.

I Don’t Forget, I Don’t Forgive… https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilymason/2022/10/27/after-paypal-revokes-controversial-misinformation-policy-major-concerns-remain-over-2500-fine/

That was the moment I already deleted all PayPal accounts. To never return back.

I see. I’m not native English. but I get it.

No such thing as introducing features with 0 performance impact.

Roger that

Nobody knows about Mbin yet?

We need to leverage existing solutions like how Ana archive is working. Which makes use of torrents. https://annas-archive.org/ Like read this carefully: https://annas-archive.org/datasets

Until archive.org soon will be ceased. Other big ROM sites were forced to close as well… It’s madness!! And we are not doing enough to prevent this. For example: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2024/06/one-of-the-webs-oldest-rom-sites-removes-games-by-nintendo-sega-and-lego

Too late… everybody is doing this shizzle. I can’t take it anymore.

I see, it’s because of potential trackers and cookies. So if you use another browser it’s less likely those companies can track you. (despite you have the same IP address). I’m just saying, if you do give your reason, we might can provide a better solution here. Like maybe a VPN.

Exactly, so you have Firefox, Floorp, LibreWolf and even Waterfox. Just pick one.

For shopping? That can also be done via Firefox.

Real games are games that aren’t Fortnite bs (no offense). Fortnite definitely negatively impacted First person shoots IMO.

BF2 is also still good. CoD4 I really liked in the past.

I hope this person tries out real games. Like counter strike 3, halo 1, battlefield 3, call of duty 4 or something like that. Current games kinda suck.

The name is Floorp* not Florp.

I do agree the name is stupid, but I love the browser!

@devfuuu@lemmy.world No, this one: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33654