Absolutely. The unbelievable thing to me is that our governments and regulatory bodies appear to have learned nothing from this (or the gambling industry in general) and continue to let scope creep happen and more of these things exist. Wild.

yeh I find it almost impossible to reconcile the guy writing the stuff he does today with the sorts of things he used to write about, to the point where I wonder if maybe the stuff I thought was insightful and interesting years ago was not?!

I don't want it to be part of the browser! that would be awful

(Not sure the article holds up well; it was a bit of an unhinged rant but I still think Mozilla shoehorn way too much useless shit in Firefox instead of just fixing bugs. I still maintain that them building an email/groupware product to challenge Gmail etc would be good & seems like they are now?!)

I wrote this article 10 years ago as a bit of a vent about Firefox; it did Some Numbers at the time because the pain of the Australis redesign was pretty fresh, so it resonated with a lot of people (& annoyed others).

10 years later & I still feel same on update days

medium.com/@trog/forget...

Also a nice little graph in Alan Kohler's finance report last night showing just how much the ambition of the Govt public/social housing is. Let's hope they get there...

"the only way to convince you that yours kids are safe in Roblox is to make you sign an NDA and tell you about all the secret surveillance your children are under when they play this game"

"the only way to convince you that yours kids are safe in Roblox is to make you sign an NDA and tell you about all the secret surveillance your children are under when they play this game" is not very convincing to me

AI ceo: our talking robots will tell your children to commit suicide and drive fragile people into psychosis but that's just the price society has to pay for a minor increase in efficiency in writing as copy