Engywuck

@Engywuck@lemm.ee

I have no sympathy for GAFAM, nor for Mozilla.

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Engywuck,

I have a cheap Thinkpad from 2018 (E580). A couple of years ago I expanded its ram to 16 GB, added a NVME disk and an second-hand AX wifi card and it still serves me very very well.

Engywuck, (edited )

It’s similar to AI regurgitated crap.

Engywuck,

Great piece of software!

Engywuck,

I’m almost 50 and I surely know about modern tech and FOSS. Age is not the problem here. Ignorance is.

Firefox failing several privacy tests out-of-the-box, according to Brave article (lemmy.world)

I understand firefox is free software and greatly customisable. I think forks like LibreWolf are fantastic. But I believe the FOSS community needs to be more critical of mozilla. They haven’t been the sharpest tool in the drawer for a while…...

Engywuck, (edited )

It’s well know that FF defaults aren’t exactly the best for privacy.

Engywuck,

It’s not chinese. Like, at all. You may be talking about Opera.

OTOH, Brave is FOSS: github.com/brave/brave-browser

Please, don’t spread FUD and don’t parrot what people say without even a bit of research.

Engywuck,

I have already set up a proxy on my foreign VPS. National Court can suck my duck.

Engywuck,

AFAIK, connecting to a random port on your own server isn’t a crime. Yet.

Engywuck,

Best Fucking DE

Engywuck,

I find unbelievable that every fucking little tweak I could think of is available…

Engywuck,

Germans know it better

Engywuck,

Interesting… What would people shitting on other browsers for offering OPT-IN ads do now?

Oh, wait. Mozilla can do no wrong /s

Nothing to see here.

Engywuck,

Arch. Minimal, fast, rolling and it doesn’t break. Plus, the AUR and the Wiki are unvaluable.

Had been on: RedHat (199something), Mandrake, Slackware, Ubuntu and Debian before.

Engywuck,

Dunno, during 8ish years I have only hada couple of minimal problems due to updates (and the solution was promptly available on Arch homepage). Can’t speak for other, though.

Engywuck,

I just made a mistake, sorry :-P English us not my first language.

Engywuck,

No problem, man ;-) I didn’t take it as an offense. Have a nice day!

Engywuck,

it’s cringe but equaly cringy is posting it to here and the comments pretending you couldn’t find a dozen similar examples on lemmy lol, like the demographic is not that different.

This.

Engywuck,

Why should people stop telling other people what they should do in 2024…

Engywuck,

go tell other people to use it

I’m not going to tell anyone what they should do, sorry. And every site is biased, no matter what.

Engywuck, (edited )

Yeah. But you don’t get upvotes so easily by not shouting “Google bad!”.

Engywuck,

it’s obviously not obvious to some people who think it gives them some semblance of privacy.people who think it gives them some semblance of privacy.

As I said in a different comment, it should have been obvious to anyone with with basic reading skills. Google may be a shitty company (it surely is), but the PEBCAK factor is strong factor in this case.

The only “private mode” of browsing is anything that’s not Chrome or Edge.

Disagree. Independently on the browser you use, website may track you server side and you wouldn’t ever know.

Engywuck,

Right. Much easier to avoid reading altogether and just blame someone else when bad thing occur. Typical.

Engywuck,

Quoting someone from Reddit: Mozilla lost my respect years ago. They’re just buzzwords and a scam, at this point.

Engywuck,

Wrong. Vivaldi and Brave have adblockers, without even taking into account AdGuard, Blockade and the likes.

Engywuck,

And I have moved my mastodon account to an instance who actively defederated Threads. I’m not interested in interacting with anyone on that network.

And I’m fucking sick of the “content relevant for me” thing. I interact with people asking/giving help, discussing and so on. Mindlessly consuming “content” is simply a disease.

Engywuck,

Tell that to @Gargron (the creator of Mastdon, AFAIK). He’s very excited about this. And I can’t honestly understand why.

mstdn.social/…/111576826633308486

Engywuck,

Just migrate your account to a different instance, if you plan to use it. It’s not difficult and many of them already defederate from Threads (mstdn.social, for instance).

Engywuck,

True… It amazes me when people become so entitled online, especially in the FOSS community. It looks like they think devs owe them something.

Engywuck,

In-built adblockers aren’t going to be affected by MV3 anyway. They are not extensions, thus Google is powerless there.

Engywuck,

OP has literally said that YT didn’t block them/didnt show any ads while using Vivaldi… As far I’m concerned, I couldn’t care less. I don’t use YT at all.

Engywuck,

AdGuard (system wide), PiHole, inbuilt adblockers are still there and won’t be affected by this. Who cares.

Engywuck,

Adguard and pihole rely on DNS redirects - googs has already implemented “secure DNS” for Chrome in Android, which circumvents network level/local DNS by connecting to a Google owned DNS, serving content using those listings instead.

You can chose many different neutral DNS in AdGuard/Pihole and also in Android (quad9, for instance). In Android I use my own AdGuard Home instance as my DoT server.

They’ll likely bring this to all flavors of Chrome.

Inbuilt AdBlockers work well and wont’ be affected by MV3, as they are not extensions. Don’t spread FUD.

Yes, one should use Firefox.

No need to be so masochistic and I wouldn’t use it regardlessly. I don’t want to give undeserved market share to corrupt Mozilla Corp. I’d rather watch ads. But, as I said, there’s no need for that, because between DNS blocker and inbuilt adblockers of better browsers, I haven’t seen a single fucking ad in ages.

Engywuck,

Same. Since… forever I maybe use youtube once or twice per year. There’s nothing interesting for me there that I can’t find somewhere else, and often in written (not video form), which is less time consuming and less prone to useless “padding” for “monetization”.

Engywuck, (edited )

old.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/…/k5kwd97/

github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/33726

And crypto are disabled by default.

No, I wont’ ditch it. It’s the best browser out there, right now, since scummy/corrupt/hypocrite Mozilla (which, remember, is in bed with Google, Amazon and Facebook while criticizing them) decided that Firefox is just a side project for them and they’re deceiving people making them believe that donations fund FF development.

Don’t even bother to reply. I’m not going to fuel this shitty thread any further.

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