#googleshit — Public Fediverse posts

How to take something that works really well for a great variety of use cases (ssh2) and turn it into some abomination by throwing #GoogleShit (QUIC, HTTP/3) at it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38664729

Can you see this nifty little garbage bin icon next to image.webp.enabled? This indicates that this preference isn't mandatory and can be deleted — sometimes this means that the it was added by the user manually, but not in this case — I know for sure that it was always there since it is how I *ALWAYS* kept WebP support disabled. Most of the time it means that this parameter was removed and no longer affects anything.
And you know what? It is the case — it has indeed been removed, here: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/188f0cf468d3c1734eed977b29beef19faf91fb9
Yes, they have made what was optional before MANDATORY — for no reason. It's no longer up to you to disable it.

But the fun part is — look at the date this was submitted: it's the fifteenth of September! TWO DAYS after high-severity vulnerability in libwebp was registered. No shit, here it is: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4863

Yes, it's exactly what it is — they have made it impossible for you to mitigate the quite possible vulnerabilities and put your fate in the hands of Google, making you dependent on them to fix their buggy shit. For no apparent reason!
My God, Mozilla, what the FUCK are you doing?! :marseyrage:

#Mozilla #Firefox #GoogleShit #WebP