This is a follow up to an article written by Platformer.

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Losing privacy for convenience has been happening. We use GPS on our smart phones for better directions. We install listening devices to add things to shopping carts and to play music by voice. We install cloud security cameras at home. We accept free WiFi in stores which gives them our cell phone info and our location. We use digital cash instead of physical cash. We buy things online rather than going to the store. Every device, like a toaster, has a MAC address.

Lets put name to the IP address. Yup, that is the same as just the IP address that can be shared by multiple devices.

Imagine parents actually parenting instead of blaming everyone else but themselves?

Also the "Think about the children!" states but force birth on minors, don't give healthcare or food to kids, and vote in pedophiles.

I'm going to hope for the best and assume this has nothing to do with their browser. Mozilla has a lot of other products.

FreeBSD doesn't have desktop environment built in. So maybe running from command line or installation is a lot faster.

BSD might be faster but companies choose BSD because the BSD License is much more flexible than the Linux General Public License. Apple was even able to create their own license, the APSL. They would not be able to do that using Linux.

Stanford University has made hundreds of millions of dollars on licensing alone. That doesn't even include the billions they got from donations.

They can afford to fight this. What they do get just giving up is the donations they get from conservatives. This is a business decision.

I use Catima and I am happy with it but it doesn't have the feature to crop images and use it as a logo. It's easy enough to image search logos though.

Yes, that is adding controls and using a database from the SponsorBlock server.

What I mean is a plugin cannot see the video. Like you can't write

if(screen == adScreen) {
     then skipToNextSegment();
}

The plugin isn't reading the video, it is getting info from a database. For AI or machine learning to work ad injection, which might change for every user, doing what SponsorBlock is doing is not enough.

Plugins can add controls and it can download videos, but plugins can't interact with videos directly I think.

Maybe use the Youtube API closed captions and figure out the patterns for ads that way?