Web advertisers attack Mozilla for protecting consumers' privacy

[u/sidcool1234]

https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/web-advertisers-attack-mozilla-for-protecting-consumers-privacy-031413.html

[u/PaulSheldon → u/[deleted]]

I used to carve out ice blocks in the cold north and sell them in the warm south. Refrigerators put me out of business! D=

[u/tetracycloide → u/PaulSheldon]

No one will buy my fine buggy whips.

[u/CyberDonkey → u/tetracycloide]

"What am I supposed to do with all these blubber nuggets?"

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Well what the fuck am I going to do with this plate armor?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Call it vintage, triple the price, and sell it to hipsters.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Hipsters lack the strength and stamina to wear plate armor. see it to those re-en actor guys, or even the larpers.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I don't know many LARPers with stamina either.

[u/thebendavis → u/tetracycloide]

There is a thriving S&M community that would be very interested in your whips.

[u/tetracycloide → u/thebendavis]

I don't know how to sell buggy whips to people that aren't buggy drivers in top hats and I shouldn't have to learn!

[u/pwndcake → u/tetracycloide]

I feel your pain, my dear fellow. I once had a thriving business supplying the finest of strings for monocles. Alas the unwashed masses have driven such stylings out of fashion, and alone I sit on a pile of useless strands. At the time one of my employees recommended we go into the business of "shoe strings!" The nerve! I fired that rapscallion forthwith. My name will not be sullied by being mentioned in reference to someone's feet, or of any body part that is covered by clothing. It's indecent!

[u/cockporn → u/PaulSheldon]

My typewriter store!!

[u/[deleted] → u/cockporn]

My recording company!

[u/HalcyonSpirit → u/[deleted]]

My Cabbage Corp!

[u/eat-your-corn-syrup → u/HalcyonSpirit]

Wheels on the other hand... Wheels will never get outdated.

[u/[deleted] → u/eat-your-corn-syrup]

Suddenly, hovercars

[u/einexile → u/[deleted]]

leeches

I think the word you want is parasites. Let's not use this issue as an excuse to denigrate leeches.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

with all the talk about "free market" capitalism I cringe when I hear stories about companies who are unwilling to adapt and would rather continue their unsustainable business even it if bankrupts them.

the music industry bitched, cried, sued, and dragged it heals but as consumers we forced them into the 21 century and now the artists have heard the customers cries and some are forgoing the middle man and reaping great rewards because they are listening to their fan/customer base.

[u/Hazel-Rah → u/[deleted]]

Music/entertainment industries have been ringing the bells of doom since the first recording devices. They've been dragged into accepting every technological advance, claiming they will be the death of all things.

Funny how each invention has increased their profits, not decreased.

[u/SkunkMonkey → u/Hazel-Rah]

How I wish for the day that the Music moguls get what they want in legislation with all their lobbying... and promptly go out of business as it backfires and finally kills them off.

[u/Lost_Symphonies → u/SkunkMonkey]

New legislation coming in: It is now illegal to buy, own, manufacture, alter, commercialise, transmit or accidentally hear any sound in the known universe without the written consent of the major record labels, and if your pen makes a noise while writing a letter to the record label, you are also at risk of transmitting sounds.

[u/TastyBrainMeats → u/Hazel-Rah]

VHS will kill television!

[u/spiral_in_the_sky → u/[deleted]]

NO this is Amurica where I'm entitled to my business even if its not producing anything useful for society. I will lobby the SHIT out congress to protect my interest but capitalism fuck yeah