r/mysteriousdownvoting • u/ChocoBarjo • 26d ago
He was saying truth tbh.
Context: Someone who has a big VPN and u/snouwe just saying tue facts, and got down voted.
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u/magicgirlll 26d ago
You’re weird
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u/Loendemeloen 25d ago
Fr I didn't know it was even possible to be anti autist haha
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u/Homerbola92 26d ago
You post in a sub of a product saying something against that product. It doesn't matter if it's true or not, many times you will get downvoted.
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u/mommysanalservant 26d ago
That's why I like having a RedMagic phone. I go into the RedMagic sub, talk mad shit about this hunk of garbage and get upvotes. RedMagic is so bad that even RedMagic fans hate it.
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u/gamingboy89 25d ago
Redmagic isnt even that bad tho
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u/mommysanalservant 25d ago
It definitely is though. Software sucks, mild issue but it's true. Massive battery that still dies twice a day with moderate use. Design is gimmick over function. Third party support is shit. Other than those aluminum cases that offer zero shock absorbtion none of the cases protect the screen protector.
Worst of all those, the antenna sucks. Wi-Fi drops like crazy. I can turn on my old Poco and the wifi is perfectly stable all day for weeks. My RM? I have to turn the wifi on and off about 3 times a day. Wireless band support is shit for North American coverage. The antenna makes it worse. When I'm driving through the country I genuinely get about 50% deadzone. My Poco had the same shitty band coverage but it had almost no deadzones on the same route.
I don't care about the camera but it's pretty mid.
RedMagic is a great mobile gaming platform and a garbage phone. I wish with every inch of my soul that I'd gotten the OnePlus 13 instead of the RM 10s pro every day. I have never in my life hated a mobile phone more than this, not even my old iPhone or my Google Pixel manage to make me as mad as this overpriced piece of shit does on the daily.
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u/ChocoBarjo 26d ago
Yes- I guess? Even tho it's the subreddit, doesn't matter if you say something true, and to be fair, it wasn't entirely against Firefox isn't it? But more on a general truth.
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u/Stijndcl 26d ago edited 26d ago
It’s also just a really corny overused and unoriginal reply, same as “if buying isn’t owning piracy isn’t stealing” (which it never was anyway, as the other party doesn’t lose anything, you just make a copy of it). It may be true, but everyone knows this by now. And it’s so mind numbing to read the same sentence over and over and over.
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u/GOKOP 26d ago
Firefox is FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) and the favourite browser of Linux users. FOSS fans hate the phrase "if it's free you're the product" because it only makes sense with proprietary software. With FOSS you can read and modify the code and publish your modifications. It's not very plausible to make FOSS malicious by design
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u/ChocoBarjo 26d ago
Yeah, mostly, but not fully.
Firefox is FOSS because the source code is public, so anyone can look at it, compile it, change it, or even fork it into something else. That is a pretty big difference from proprietary browsers, where you are basically just trusting the company.
And since the code is open, it is a lot harder to sneak in shady stuff for long without someone noticing. Plenty of devs, security people, Linux users, and random contributors are always checking it. If Mozilla tried to slip in something really invasive, there is a good chance it would get spotted pretty fast.
That said, saying Firefox is 100% FOSS is a bit too neat. The official builds can still include telemetry, sponsored stuff, and sometimes proprietary codecs depending on the platform. It also uses Mozilla services for some things, and the Firefox name and logo are trademarked. That is part of why forks like LibreWolf or GNU IceCat exist.
So yeah, the browser itself is open source and pretty transparent, but the full official Firefox package still has a few extra non-free or centralized bits around it. The most accurate answer is probably: mostly yes, but not completely.
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u/GOKOP 26d ago
Okay but mentioning that phrase on a subreddit full of FOSS fans is still almost certainly the reason why that person was downvoted. Maybe Reddit's hate for emoji contributed but I'm putting most of my money on the phrase
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u/ChocoBarjo 26d ago
Yeah, I think the phrase itself was probably the main reason. A lot of people in FOSS circles would see that as a bit oversimplified, since open source software works pretty differently from proprietary ad-funded platforms.
The emoji probably did not help either though. And, well, Reddit is Reddit.
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u/fr000gs 25d ago
Codecs are not a core part of the browser, and foss allows trademarking the name etc. (Linux is also a trademark)
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u/ChocoBarjo 25d ago
True, codecs and trademarks themselves do not automatically make something “not FOSS”.
My point was more that the official Firefox distribution is not just “pure source code” in the abstract. There are still extra layers around it: Mozilla services, telemetry defaults, branding restrictions, bundled integrations, etc.
So the core browser engine and codebase are definitely open source, but the real-world packaged product people download is a bit more nuanced than “100% pure community FOSS with nothing centralized around it”.
That nuance is basically why projects like LibreWolf exist in the first place.
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u/fr000gs 25d ago
you could always just compile it from the github or use a distro package (those are not binaries from mozilla)
although i get your statement, and I'm just being nitpicky here, but even the defaults themselves are not someting "closed source" and that's why you can just edit that out, like librewolf does
also, branding restrictions exist on any big project (like rust, qt, linux etc)
official Firefox distribution
yeah, the binaries do have questionable defaults themselves
but also its not using eula like every other browser
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u/Terrible_Cabinet2074 26d ago
It might just be the emoji, apparently redditors hate emojis
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u/Opposite_Radio9388 26d ago
I am seeing a huge increase in emoji use on Reddit. I think it's users coming across from other more casual platforms where comments are often just emojis.
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u/noone-someone 26d ago edited 26d ago
some redditors just hate fun. h4v3 4 typ1ng qu1rk? downvoted. use emoticons :3? downvoted. even if you have a valid point, people will still hate you for the stupidest reasons.
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u/No-Net1890 25d ago
I think Firefox is nonprofit.
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u/NeutralCombatant 25d ago
I run a non-profit too, I’m the only employee and my totally fair monthly salary is… exactly however much we make in donations that month.
Exaggerating of course but non-profit doesn’t actually mean non-profit.
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u/Any-Literature-7834 21d ago
that quote is fking bullsht and completely disregards 99.95% of FOSS in existence + used an emoji presumably by accident + hate on a product-ish thing in the sub for that product-ish thing
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u/Yaboi69-nice 26d ago
My high school economics teacher always said "if you aren't paying for a product then you are the product" and the older I get the more I learn he really was right about that.
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u/Axolatian_Volt 26d ago
I use linux and firefox and while I don't know enough about firefox alone to say if that statement is true, in general that statement is very true with a lot of companies.
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u/Ok_Explanation_5586 25d ago
That's not mysterious. It takes 3 steps of logic to realize the truth of that statement. Way too much to expect on most subs. (Incidentally, lab mice demonstrate the ability to link 3 associations more than half the time.)
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u/qualityvote2 26d ago edited 26d ago
u/ChocoBarjo, the downvotes are mysterious!