Still nuts for a company to decide a multi-month outage and £300m hit in profits is preferable to the reputation damage from getting back online immediately and being hacked again.

I hope someone writes about how this played out internally.

"Some online sales will be restarted in a few weeks, but disruption will continue through June and July, the company told investors on 21 May."

Guess lots of legacy systems that they no longer trust / cant just restore from backups.

The cyber attack was a month ago!

Are online orders fulfilled via their local stores?

And there be people spending billions to reverse ageing! :-)

Feels like someone ran this page through an AI and demanded one paragraph with a hard word limit.

www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...

That's such a poorly written description though.

n00b question.

Aren't micro-brands just a step up from drop shipping?

How do they justify the 20-30k prices? (Have these brands operated long enough to have a reputation for quality in enthusiast circles?)

Yes.

Google Doc 404s.

My passport was issued in one state, endorsed for address change in another and I was living in a third state.

Took months as they had to verify authenticity across 3 offices and they didn't use regular mail for comms and had someone hand courier docs by train once they have sufficient volume.

Switched to Linux in '98 so never got to experience IE's 6.0 heyday except in the form of broken websites on my desktop.

Mozilla on Linux was such a pain that I continued to use Netscape Navigator for most tasks as it was much more responsive on my RAM-constrained PCs.

FYI getting a damaged passport replaced is a royal PITA. Even when it's just minor water damage and everything is perfectly legible.

You need to make imposition style declarations in triplicate that you will ensure it won't happen again and if it does the govt can penalise you etc.

K

Now it's both bloat + external services, so it's natural that long time users hate the change because they have seen where/what this leads to.

I guess most people aren't old enough to remember why Firefox(via Phoenix/Firebird) came to be and got so popular so fast around 20+ years ago.

People hated the bloat that was OG Mozilla(open sourced Netscape Communicator and later Seamonkey.)

It's not about PPA per se but about bundling a service as opt-out rather than opt-in. (ie, users aren't in control.)

It's been a slow boil to this policy change. The "servicification" of the browser began with them integrating/shipping Pocket(which at that point wasn't even owned by MozCorp.)