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  • Railcar8095@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    I’m not a native speaker, but the right meaning is the one that came to mind reading this title.

    I think context makes it clear, and the most likely meaning. If it was Firefoxs CEO the one at fault, I would think it’s a ver weird way of saying it.

    But I also see people saying this is why Firefox is the worst and I’m not sure I got it right by accident, people have low reading comprehension or just a massive bias.

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      8 months ago

      I am a native english speaker and the headline absolutely makes sense and is clearly worded, some people just dont think about what they are reading and gloss over it.

      • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        On lemmy in particular, you’ll see a lot of the following scenarios

        • statement could be taken one of two ways

        • option #1 makes sense and is reasonable

        • option #2 is absolute gobbledigook

        • lemmy users: “I literally cannot understand which of these interpretations is accurate”

        Perhaps it’s related to the large numbers of self-professed neurodivergent people here?

        • OpenTTD@lemmy.zip
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          8 months ago

          Neurodivergent, my ass. I literally have been diagnosed with Aspergers’/Autism Spectrum Disorder/whatever since I was 8, that was 25 years ago, and knew it had to be the “privacy” “partner” CEO that had data broker connections. This is either lack of knowledge (reddit was easy to use and then turned evil) or lack of brain cells, but to be fair… That grammar is implausibly awful, like someone was trying to punish Mozilla…

    • Wes_Dev@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      You’re not wrong. But also keep in mind that headlines prime readers to think in a certain way before they even get a chance to read the context. No one will admit it, because headlines make money, but all it takes is one carefully worded headline to change how people interpret, feel about, and react to a story. Even when you’re aware of this trick, it’s impossible to avoid all the time. That’s just how our brains work.