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  • bizarroland
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    785 months ago

    How is it that so many companies can literally skin another company and wear its skin as a bodysuit and we do not collectively recoil in psychological horror?

    How are so many people germane to this concept?

    This is invasion of the body snatchers but for companies that determine the livelihood of essentially every human being on the planet. It’s fucking terrifying.

        • @IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
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          305 months ago

          It honestly blows my mind that yahoo is even a thing anymore. I can’t think of the last time they got something right, yet they keep shuffling along.

          • lychee🍒
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            5 months ago

            Data harvesting is a lucrative business. You don’t need to have a good product with todays internet, you just need to have access to a lot of insanely personal data, and yahoo has both an expansive advertising network and hosts hundreds of millions of email accounts. They’re just Google except they don’t pretend to care about anything else

            • @TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
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              55 months ago

              We used to use them to farm and sell gold and rare items in an online game that I won’t mention because I’m afraid it will restart my addiction.

          • HobbitFoot
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            15 months ago

            They can keep shuffling along, though. If you don’t have to pay for active development of features, maintenance of their existing product lines is relatively cheap.

      • @adarza@lemmy.ca
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        5 months ago

        you missed the bit about aol buying netscape in 1998.

        netscape continued but under aol’s structure. aol disbanded the netscape group in 2003, which is when mozilla foundation launched and took over development.

        aol continued to release netscape on its own until v9 in early 2008. last two versions were based on mozilla’s new firefox, not the legacy browser suite.

        yahoo got mixed in when verizon bought aol in 2015 and most of yahoo in 2016, and combined them. later sold verizon media (the aol/yahoo combination, fka oath, nka yahoo) to vultures (apollo) in 2021. apparently the netscape trademark remains with the remnants of aol.

    • NickwithaC
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      315 months ago

      Yes which makes this even dumber. They could just as easily have launched a Firefox fork.

  • @hperrin@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Firefox is a direct fork of Netscape Navigator. (Actual Netscape Navigator, not whatever this is.)

  • Toes♀
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    95 months ago

    I vaguely recall its last version was an internet explorer skin too. So, 2 steps forward 1 step back?

        • Aatube
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          35 months ago

          to render web pages in IE mode

          Sounds like a separate mode for compatibility reasons back when websites had that “Best viewed in Internet Explorer” badge

          Plus, 8 wasn’t the last release either

          • Toes♀
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            25 months ago

            Sounds like a separate mode for compatibility

            Yeah it was, I don’t know if they kept the feature in v9. It stopped being relevant a long time before that either way.

            I never made a claim to the accuracy.

            • Aatube
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              15 months ago

              i was just saying that i don’t think they ever became an ie skin lol