Actually, this was already asked in a cross post: https://lemmy.zip/comment/24461385

Sorry

If I use Firefox, am I immune to this kind of privacy invasion?

Their revenue is growing. Their revenue only from Amazon sales to consumers is also growing (excluding things like AWS, streaming, and advertising). The proportion of sales to Prime members is growing (they stopped reporting Prime membership, but we can presume that it also growing, from this).

The few people boycotting Amazon, maybe for short periods of time, isn’t enough. Every small step is helpful but we need much, much more.

For my part I last used Amazon services in 2024. (personally, not counting AWS at work)

Haha yeah, they operate with a “1996 internet” security posture…maybe worse ;)

Recently obtained a free circa-2017 mac mini which I installed Linux on, to create a docker hosting environment. Current have Jellyfin, SearXNG, and Forgejo.

My much older NAS serves as the NFS drive for the Jellyfin media (formerly, I ran Plex directly on the NAS, but this was slow/unreliable as the NAS has only dual 1Ghz ARM cores).

One of the drives in the NAS died Thursday night, but no serious issue as its RAID 1. I wonder if the new load on it pushed it over the edge. (Also, I wonder if I could use the mac minis SSD as a sort of cache in front of the NAS, to reduce wear on it, if that would even help…)

Luckily I had some gift cards from recycling old tablets and phones, so I could get a replacement drive at minimal cost. I went with a cheap WD Blue drive instead of the 2.5x more expensive Seagate IronWolf drives I had used in the past. We will see how that fares over the next few years.

Upon replacing the drive yesterday, I found the one that failed was a 2017 mfg date, so its life was 8 years (from when I initially populated the NAS). The other drive was replaced in 2021 (but it actually failed in 2020, I just left the NAS unused for a year at that time, so it had a life of 3 years). Some insight into the life span of the Iron Wolf drives.

Things I’d like to add soon:

• kiwix instance
• normalize my ebook/magazine collection
• setup to download my youtube subscriptions to Jellyfin’s media directory so I can avoid the youtube app/website
• something for music to ditch that subscription

They would love if they can get you hooked on a monthly subscription for human thought

🤷‍♂️ ironfox exists