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An extract from the Rules of the Internet, 2021 edition: - don't use Chrome - don't use Google Search
by Andrew_nenakhov 6y ago
An extract from the Rules of the Internet, 2021 edition:
- don't use Chrome
- don't use Google Search
- midasuni 6y agoIt’s not like it’s difficult. This isn’t the world of IE6, where a bloated Netscape 4.7 which failed to work on many sites was the only alternative. (Kant remember when KHTML - later konqurer - became more usable than Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox)
- psychstudio 6y agoOh I loved Konq in the olden days. A single tabbed browser for both file system and web. Loved that thing. khtmlview was also an awesome browser component which I made use of in a few QT projects.
- nottorp 6y agoLet's remember that khtml was embraced by Apple and became (forked) the rendering engine in Safari...
- emayljames 6y agoI'd respectfully disagree, Netscape (Gecko) had better, more up to date standards. The issue was always folks not testing on other than Internet Exploder.
- Andrew_nenakhov 6y agoI actually found that the best way in that (horrible) era was to develop Opera-first. That way the amount of fixes for IE and Mozilla was much less than if choosing any of these two as firstm
- int_19h 6y agoIt didn't when Netscape 4 (which was pre-Gecko) was a thing. The IE vs NN browser war saw both adopting various incompatible non-standard features - e.g. layers in NN, innerHTML in IE - but the set that IE ended up with was closer to what was eventually standardized as HTML5/CSS/DOM.
- emayljames 6y agoThat sounds like a ruff time for devs.
- midasuni 6y agoBlink Problem was everyone had IE, websites were written for IE, activex, vbscript, etc If it worked in Netscape fine, but large numbers didn’t. On top of that, Netscape was a right resource hog.
- iSnow 6y agoI tried, but I find each and every Google Search alternative lacking. I frequently have to hunt down some bug descriptions or other stuff related to coding and Google Search is really hard to beat. Even tried Bing, lol
- Andrew_nenakhov 6y agoI'm using ddg on all my devices for ~2 or 3 years now, and it is fine by my standards. YMMV, of course.
- blunte 6y agoDdg is usually adequate for my needs, but especially with code related searches, I often have to fall back to google. I’m glad ddg exists, and it’s nice to see them improving over time.
- skinkestek 6y agoI have this workflow: - use DDG - if I can't find it, attach !g to my query and be instantly on Google - either confirm Google can't find it either - or found it this way DDG get important data to improve their technology, I avoid being tracked most of the time and I get the same results for the cost of a few seconds here and there. Yes, DDG isn't exactly amazing for anyone who used Google before 2009, but neither is the "Google" lookalike we see today ;-)
- mantap 6y agoYou can use !s instead of !g and you get the google results through startpage without going to google directly.
- skinkestek 6y agoGood point! I guess !g is just a old habit that I should upgrade now.
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- urthor 6y agoDoes it matter when they're keylogging my Android phone anyway?
- MikeUt 6y agoOne battle at a time.
- selfhoster11 6y agoThere are lots of other keyboards to choose from. Unless you want Swype like functionality, in which case only the GBoard is anything like acceptable performance.
- h0p3 6y agoYes, but obviously, there is more work to be done to secure our human rights, as you point out.