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by soundnote 3y ago
Apart from MS's obsessive Bing pushing, I'd say Windows is easily better than macOS. Explorer beats Finder, PWA/Chrome profile support is nicer, window manager is better, archives are handled natively, touchpad gestures for e
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by soundnote 3y ago
Apple problems get solved by buying more Apple products, working as intended :)
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by soundnote 3y ago
The natural scroll setting of the mouse and the trackpad are bound. You can't have one setting for one device and a different one for the other. It's maddening. Both Windows and Linux handle that easily.
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by soundnote 3y ago
Apple is quite fine with their OS being an embarassment that needs 3rd party apps to fix, people will still hail it as the best thing ever. For example, window management on macOS is trash, and the shortcuts are command+arrows which is fine
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by soundnote 3y ago
Brave did that already. Blocked the tracking ads and built an altcoin-backed tipping service whose coins they regularly buy off the market with real money.
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by soundnote 3y ago
The monstrous battery life is a big draw.
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by soundnote 3y ago
I mean, it's true. If you don't care about privacy, and are fine with using Bing for search, Edge is actually a pretty pleasant experience. The problem is that it isn't great for privacy and tries to force Bing with all manne
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by soundnote 3y ago
Actually huge. Sadly, it's still Edge, but proper uBO has to be better than whatever tampered version of Adblock they offer.
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by soundnote 3y ago
Microsoft has a growing ads business, and it's the ads division in charge of Windows and Edge nowadays, as far as I understand. The dev tools are for internal use and B2B, so the motivation is different.
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by soundnote 3y ago
One genuine performance edge Firefox has is that it can handle giant YouTube comments sections better than Chromium browsers in part because it accepts larger maximum page size.
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by soundnote 3y ago
Better in some ways, worse in others. It's less insistent on bothering you with things, but the App Store is a worse blowup than Microsoft Store, macOS's native window management is trash, the OS can't have separate natural s
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by soundnote 3y ago
It's "interesting" to see the same old lies keep on being proffered, like Brave "rewriting affiliate links".
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by soundnote 3y ago
As someone living in one of those countries, it's not a concentration camp, except maybe during COVID lockdowns.
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by soundnote 3y ago
There was a XULRunner-based media player too, I used it for a good while: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songbird_(software)
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by soundnote 3y ago
Brave actually started out as a Gecko-based project - they were using some Gecko-based Electron equivalent, if memory serves. It was such a PITA to work with that they switched to a Chromium base.
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by soundnote 3y ago
Doesn't. Brave's adblockers are not an extension, they're integrated directly into the browser so they don't care what happens with extension APIs. Same reason they can do CNAME unmasking, which uBO can't on Chromiu
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by soundnote 3y ago
The issue with those recommendations is that they are worded to sound reasonable, and that they sound more reasonable when they target people you already dislike. For example, "promote factual voices" is in principle amazing, if i
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by soundnote 3y ago
Why use Chrome when Brave is pretty much the same but with better privacy?
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by soundnote 3y ago
One of the more interesting options they provide the user is the ability to pay for an ad-free Brave Search.
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by soundnote 3y ago
It's worth noting that PrivacyTests tests default configurations. If a browser has a good suite of privacy features but doesn't have them on by default, they'll score low on the benchmark. Firefox, for example, can be harde
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by soundnote 3y ago
Brave. Seriously. Turn off a few things at first boot, it won't bother you after and is just nice and clean: https://i.imgur.com/tuMGc3c.png
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by soundnote 3y ago
It's so bloated: https://i.imgur.com/tuMGc3c.png
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by soundnote 3y ago
People here have a major hateboner against Brave. Some of it is crypto, some of it is Eich, relatively little the product itself.
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by soundnote 3y ago
Nope. No thanks. First, Firefox literally makes their money from Google ads, and has Google search suggestions on by default. So much for privacy. Second, the Foundation. A bunch of people more interested in leftist activism than in buildin
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by soundnote 3y ago
Firefox's actual, non-replicable killer feature is somewhat questionable, but: Chromium has a lower limit on how much RAM a page can consume. Now, YouTube comments sections get huge, and huge web pages are huge. Turns out, Firefox can
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by soundnote 3y ago
They lost a lot of their userbase back in the day when they started getting slower and Chrome was way faster. Now, Chrome is default on Android devices and people are used to it on desktop. Edge is default on Windows, Safari on Mac and iDev
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by soundnote 3y ago
It's definitely suboptimal.
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by soundnote 3y ago
Chromium browsers do a similar thing IME, and while I don't mind it, I don't like that the "mobile bookmarks" folder is only really accessible from the bookmark manager proper, not the bookmarks sidebar or the desktop bo
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by soundnote 3y ago
This is a big reason to avoid Edge: They have entire categories that aren't e2ee, browsing history being one of them. Chrome, IIRC, can have e2ee but the user has to turn it on. Brave, Vivaldi and Firefox offer complete, e2ee sync so
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by soundnote 3y ago
Game balance in 3rd Edition was gone from the PHB onwards, out of like top 5-7 most broken classes in the game, 3 were in the PHB (Wizard, Cleric, Druid). A lot of stuff people consider broken (eg. Tome of Battle) isn't even really a p

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