Comments by "Gareth Hart" (@tgheretford) on "SomeOrdinaryGamers" channel.

  1. Everyone saying Firefox is the solution have two issues coming soon to its owner, Mozilla. The Google anti-trust remedy requiring Google to no longer be the default search engine which will cost them around 86% of their entire revenue that will need to be filled from elsewhere and donations won't fill the void. And Mozilla is transitioning to be an advertising company like Google - for whom ad-blocking will be a threat to their new business model. Do not assume that Firefox is safe.
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  2. Nintendo has this idea that if they're not monetising it, it's illegal.
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  3. Soon there may not be a Firefox. One of the proposed anti-trust remedies against Google will be the ending of the default search engine deal which will take 86% of Mozilla's revenue and threaten the existence of Firefox. At that point, you'd better hope the forks keep it going but without the necessary funding they need to keep up with Google.
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  4. The problem then becomes, how do you pay for the Internet? If everything goes behind a paywall as Mozilla warned in their change of financial model, you'll very quickly find that it will be unaffordable to use the Internet unless you are rich.
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  5.  @creatrixZBD  Premium will eventually have advertisements. Seen it with cable and satellite TV and more recently, with all the subscription streaming services. They start purely ad-free but then start adding advertisements to the basic tier before it spreads to the premium tiers too.
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  6. The ironic thing being is that one of the remedies from the Google anti-trust lawsuit could financially wipe Mozilla out and take Firefox with it!
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  7. The mass destruction of historical data. Something ideological groups have historically done to physical historical monuments. We had better hope the Internet Archive has offline back-ups. Worse still, if the hackers got download and upload logs, that will be a gold mine to corporations who will get that data legally through the courts to sue everyone for bumper pay-days.
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  8. This could have reprecussions for physical libraries too. Particularly as publishers deem loaning as piracy on the basis that it deprives a sale/royalties from someone who could have bought the media. Ultimately all this is heading to a strategy to shut down libraries and monetise media via a paywall and DRM. Like Netflix has done for movies and Spotify has for music. Nintendo would love to be the ultimate arbiter of all video games behind its paywall of Nintendo Switch Online which is why they have a massive problem with anything outside of that, including legal second hand game sales.
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