I’m confident his announcement to “leave social media” was an April Fools’ joke.
I’m confident his announcement to “leave social media” was an April Fools’ joke.
I know what you mean, but I think private chat and public posting are quite distinct. They’d destroy a lot more trust if they sell private messages compared to what they did with Tumblr. Especially if they continue to push local bridges, where they won’t be able to read any message (you still have to trust them obviously).
Well that’s some news. If they’re good news we will see. I’m a Beeper user but never heard of Texts (stupid name) before, which seem to share the same misson as Beeper. Texts was purchased by Automattic last year (according to the Beeper blog).
What does that mean? Automattic punches with some weight in the chat space now. In general I don’t like it if big companies buy small products. However Automattic still seems to bet on the Fediverse, so maybe if the teams from Beeper and Texts can work together on a Matrix-based, open source chat application, we could get something really good.
I’ve mixed feelings about this whole thing, some shy optimizm, some less shy pessimism.
Well, time will tell.
Adding these rules to uBlock Origin allowed me to read the article:
www.bloomberg.com * 3p-frame block
www.bloomberg.com coordinator.cm.bloomberg.com * block
www.bloomberg.com eventrecorder.cm.bloomberg.com * block
www.bloomberg.com gatehouse.cm.bloomberg.com * block
www.bloomberg.com login.bloomberg.com * block
www.bloomberg.com personalization.bloomberg.com * block
www.bloomberg.com sourcepointcmp.bloomberg.com * block
www.bloomberg.com doubleclick.net * block
www.bloomberg.com google.com * block
www.bloomberg.com googlesyndication.com * block
www.bloomberg.com googletagmanager.com * block
www.bloomberg.com ml314.com * block
www.bloomberg.com moatads.com * block
www.bloomberg.com newrelic.com * block
They’re talking too much business to be a ‘private’ search. They don’t make any effort to explain how their search is private at all (except the 90/10 share model).
Maybe you want to try the Tree Style Tabs or Sideberry extension.
This looks pretty cool!
I don’t know if it does everything you need, but pinning a tab prevents it from unloading AFAIK.
I can’t speak for the BOOX Tab Ultra C directly, but I’m interested in opinions on it, because I’m thinking about buying one as well.
I have the BOOX Note Air though. Overall, I really like it. I use it to read books and learning material, do math exercises and occasionally to draw. I love that it’s smart (full Android, download any app) and dumb (slow, grayscale, don’t get distracted easily) at the same time.
Technically you can use it for browsing the web, however I wouldn’t recommend it. It’ too slow if you want to hop between different sites. It’s only comfortable if you access a specific site to read on for a while. I hope the BOOX Tab Ultra C is faster (I mean it should), but if the web is one of your main use cases, I’d rather go for a proper tablet. Even if the ePaper screen is relatively fast, it’s still too slow to be fun. Since you’re already experienced using ePaper screen, I’m confident you can judge that for yourself though.
My motivation to get an upgrade is mainly the Note Air quickly slows down when drawing anything semi-complex or above. I can recommend it for reading, taking notes and (limited) drawing. For anything else, I recommend a tablet instead.
Time to ungoogle my phone once again. Did it before, reverted it in a stupid move to try out Monster Hunter “Go”; should’ve never done it in the first place. Bye, bye, Google. Go fuck yourself.
That’s good news, very nice!
It’s not like they’d develop a new engine for iOS. They already have one which can now be used for iOS as well – but not everywhere.
It’s not in the linked article, but it was part of it in the beta release notes. Now it’s on the dedicated Android release notes page (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/android/122.0/releasenotes/):
- Firefox for Android can now be set as the default PDF reader.
- Firefox for Android now supports enabling Global Privacy Control. With this feature, Firefox informs websites that the user doesn’t want their data to be shared or sold. This feature is enabled by default in private browsing mode and can be enabled in normal browsing in Settings → Enhanced Tracking Protection -> Tell websites not to share & sell data toggle.
- To reduce user fingerprinting information and the risk of some website compatibility issues, the OS version is now always reported as “Android 10” in Firefox for Android’s User-Agent string.
Side note: in recent versions of Firefox you can use right click
→ Copy Link Without Site Tracking to get a clean version of the link without any tracking paramters.
I second the recommendation for Tree Style Tabs, however Sideberry did work better for me (don’t recall why, sorry).
One downside is that they don’t hide the horizontal tab bar on the top. AFAIK you can manually hide it by editing the userstyle css file.
Yeah, agreed, Marginalia’s more suited to discover small-web type of content.
Another thing that’d be better as a daily driver, but requires manual curation, is to filter out specific domains in your searches. Brave supports that with the Goggles feature, Mojeek calls it Focus. AFAIK Kagi too has a similar feature.
I don’t know any search engine that’s able to fully exculde paywalled content though.
Maybe not exactly what you’re looking for, but Marginalia (https://search.marginalia.nu/) focuses on non-commercial and text-based content.
I’m not aware of any functionality which allows to block messages from unknown users. I think blocking them might be your only option right now.
Easier said than done (and already too late for you), I know, but: in general, be careful where you leave your number…
Thanks for not only posting your issue, but also updating with newly discovered information. I wasn’t aware that uBlock can prevent caching.
This does not sound sustainable at all.