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  • Administrative detentions can be longer. On paper they can hold you about a month, but it can be longer than that with a judge’s signoff if they have proof of a crime.

    This is typically where the police try to get you to confess to something and drag it out as long and uncomfortably as possible until you do, after which you either get to go free (though you end up on a list for a long time) or you may go to a “black jail”/黑監獄 which is a sort of under-the-table prison.

    The terms of release can also sometimes require completion of a rehabilitation program, which is often the voluntary alternative to prison, or getting transferred to a short stay detention center for a few months to perform community service.







  • You don’t really, other than checking certificates.

    URLs are just an address to access content, they don’t have much inherent connection to the content that is there. Most legitimate websites use signed certificates to demonstrate validity, but certificates won’t tell you if someone infiltrated a legitimate site and uploaded malware to it, for instance.

    Avoid http connections in favor of https, as http is unsigned, unencrypted, open traffic that anyone with access to your network can snoop on.







  • It takes up space on the screen, which I know for some folks makes it a worthless/intrusive addition. IIRC it was also the case early on in the nightly builds that there was no way to turn it off either, which bothered people as well.

    Everyone has “modes” they get used to using their apps with (and I am no exception in that regard, which is why I am here with this question in the first place), and when something new is added which disrupts someone’s usual mode, that causes friction and a negative impression.

    I know my experience is niche, being that I am a relatively newer Firefox mobile user who liked having that feature precisely because it more closely resembled the non-Firefox experience that was more familiar to me. So to an extent, I understand this decision that was made to avoid alienating the core user, even at the risk of dissatisfying fringe users like myself.

    And Mozilla isn’t rolling in cash, especially with their future uncertain as the US government continues to go after Google’s business model which is currently propping Mozilla up, so they have to make decisions about which features to spend time and resources supporting and which to cut.

    But it still stinks, y’know?