MrAlex94

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by MrAlex94 11mo ago
I hope I don't come across too harsh in my criticism here, but this is in my wheelhouse and I like to keep tabs on the privacy browser market in comparison to Waterfox. > A bold technical choice: WebKit, not another Chromium clone I
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by MrAlex94 11mo ago
I can attest to that! While I never reached the upper echelons of virality that other browsers in recent memory have, I had much the same experience with Waterfox. Right place, right time gave it its initial user base: posting about a 64-bi
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by MrAlex94 11mo ago
Currently only Google, but Brave and Mojeek are going to be made available as well very soon
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by MrAlex94 11mo ago
Not quite independent as it’s a meta-search, but I developed a subscription based one at search.waterfox.net. Pays for the infrastructure costs and remains ad/tracking free.
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by MrAlex94 11mo ago
Waterfox (which I maintain), Tor Browser, Mull (based on Tor) and I assume LibreWolf as well?
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by MrAlex94 11mo ago
I understand why Mozilla have started implementing these features, it seems to have more mass market appeal than not - look at how popular “AI” powered browsers have become. But boy does it not add extra effort removing these features every
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Biome v2.3–Let's bring the ecosystem closer
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by MrAlex94 1y ago
You can see here[1], I'll avoid pasting again. But yes, can still use a Mozilla account and the website is getting a refurb - I will add a third hard thing in computer science.. letting people know all the things you've actually b
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by MrAlex94 1y ago
Just an FYI for anyone who is interested, I’ve also been doing the same for Waterfox. Mozilla have taken into consideration doing things locally, such as tab organisation and the likes (one would assume pre-GPT era and with regard to feat
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by MrAlex94 1y ago
Does it? If it’s the same WiFi chip used in other M4 Mac’s then it’s still limited to 160MHz: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/deployment/dep268652e6...
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by MrAlex94 1y ago
You and sersi are both welcome!
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by MrAlex94 1y ago
Not just `about:config`, which is limited to non-release builds, but via enabling “Secret Settings” when you enable debug mode: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/mobile/android/fenix... This allowed access f
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by MrAlex94 1y ago
While this was measured in a slightly different implementation via Oblivious DNS[1]: > The first thing that we can say with confidence is that the additional encryption is marginal. We know this because we randomly selected 10,000 domain
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by MrAlex94 1y ago
Not sure why it took so long for Mozilla to expose the setting on Android, it's been a 'secret' setting for a long time. In fact, sometimes they let features ride the rails for a little bit too long IMO. For Waterfox for Andr
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by MrAlex94 1y ago
When I rebased all of Waterfox’s changes onto the latest ESR branch, disabling AI features was my top priority. I only kept translations, and even that’s opt-in. I think most Firefox features, especially anything AI-related, should be opt-i
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by MrAlex94 1y ago
That figure from GPT-5 seems to be slightly off, according to the Irish Times: “At least 258 Irish-born soldiers have won the Medal of Honor since its inception. Of those, 148 won them during the civil war – 14 in one day when the Union Na
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by MrAlex94 1y ago
Tor has had zero telemetry since its inception and I’ve been disabling telemetry in Waterfox for as long as I can remember - which is almost 15 years. There were Firefox forks before that as well doing the same thing.
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by MrAlex94 1y ago
As it currently stands there should be over a billion devices that natively support JPEG-XL, as it was introduced in all Apple OSs since September 2023[1]. On the web alone it should be close to a billion users with support for JXL due to S
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by MrAlex94 1y ago
I maintain Waterfox, so I recognise this isn’t a great look criticising another fork. But there’s a contradiction in abandoning Mozilla over spending and leadership concerns whilst supporting Floorp, which initially used open source extensi
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by MrAlex94 1y ago
At the end of the day, before implementing support for streaming services via DRM, this was the most requested feature. Privacy is a sliding scale and the idea that it's absolute privacy or nothing else isn't helpful IMO. If peopl
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by MrAlex94 1y ago
I’ve been running Waterfox[1] for over 14 years and it’s as popular as ever. 1: https://www.waterfox.net
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by MrAlex94 1y ago
For what it’s worth, after I bought one, around five other people I know got them, varying models from the Steel HR to Nova, and haven’t been made aware of any issues. Of course, personal experience doesn’t apply to the mass of products, an
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by MrAlex94 1y ago
Would Withings[1] watches not fit the bill? I have a ScanWatch and the battery life lasts almost a month. 1: https://www.withings.com/
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by MrAlex94 1y ago
This reads very strangely to me, borderline idolatry if not just outright. It’s framed as if every single word expelled by Sam is a morsel of genius to be carefully examined before being devoured and savoured. To me it boils down to how ine
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by MrAlex94 1y ago
Although that may be the case, your privacy policy and terms of service appear to be identical. Furthermore, you have specified governing jurisdiction but have (as far as I can ascertain) provided no information regarding any legal entity t
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by MrAlex94 2y ago
I can: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43206110 (Just to avoid c+p massive blocks of text)
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by MrAlex94 2y ago
Waterfox is not months behind? We follow ESR releases fairly promptly.
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by MrAlex94 2y ago
Well the issue I’ve always found is that privacy is a sliding scale. At the time especially, everyone was after “absolute” privacy - i.e. everything Tor offers. But people were coming in to use Waterfox with that expectation and it wasn’t m
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by MrAlex94 2y ago
Well, System1 was/is a search aggregator. That falls under ad-tech but at the time no-one cared about the former and only the latter. Lots of browsers make search engines and lots of search engines make browsers, so it made (and still
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by MrAlex94 2y ago
FWIW, when Waterfox was part of S1, I’d make sure all work we did was open and there were the odd times I had our dept push upstream patches if/when needed.

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