willywanker

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by willywanker 2y ago
Better off disabling advertising components, which of course needs root. There's tools like AppManager for that - https://github.com/MuntashirAkon/AppManager/
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by willywanker 2y ago
In general, this generation of application developers (not just mobile) never learned one of the most basic rules of UX, that goes back to the 90s - don't bug the user with unnecessary information and absolutely avoid using modal popup
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by willywanker 2y ago
Blackberry was primarily a corporate vendor, their phones were geared for email and Exchange server support, not end users, and their corporate users presumably weren't surfing the internet on their phones regularly. By the time of the
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by willywanker 2y ago
Another minimalism obsessed project talking of 'cluttering' up the screen. Because we do all our writing on a smartphone where screen real estate is at a premium. And the supreme irony of using bloatware max Electron to deliver th
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by willywanker 2y ago
The OpenBSD issue was pretty clear - building against system libraries alters the browser configuration and behavior, for which Moonchild would end up being held responsible. Even now there are contributed 3rd party builds on the downloads
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by willywanker 2y ago
He's moved the URL here - the site continues to be updated - https://digdeeper.club/articles/mozilla.xhtml True, no mention of Mr. Robot though I'd say that was minor compared to whatever else they've be
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by willywanker 2y ago
>a browser that replaces content on web pages. Mozilla went hardcore political and Chrome copycat long after his time. There was no such controversy there under Eich, and even now as Brave's CEO he isn't doing anything to &#x27
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by willywanker 2y ago
He was opposed to it as a private citizen, not as Mozilla CEO. His beliefs and supported causes as the former are nobody else's concern; had he been discriminating in terms of employment or otherwise making public statements it would b
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by willywanker 2y ago
The author of this is has some pretty ridiculous allegations, from blaming the browser for analytics on its homepage provider (when you can directly change the homepage to whatever you want right from the preferences without digging into ab
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by willywanker 2y ago
The toxic developer in question quit 2 years ago - things are peaceful now with the community. Pale Moon isn't a rebuild of Firefox - it's a complete fork with its own rendering engine Goanna based off Gecko 52 and developed inde
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by willywanker 2y ago
That isn't a Signal exclusive flaw. If the phone OS is backdoored, everything on it is compromised.
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by willywanker 2y ago
Or use Pale Moon, forked long ago and developed independently, that respects your privacy out of the box without needing 50 different 'hardening' Arkenfox type changes or having to keep watch every time Mozilla tries to screw over
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by willywanker 2y ago
Websites today offer little over the ones from 15-20 years ago functionality-wise. In fact they have less features in the name of 'simplicity' that results in their being bloated memory hogs with javascript.
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by willywanker 2y ago
Never could see the difference between a so called web app and a shortcut to the site in question on the desktop. It is not a standalone application when it depends on the browser runtime. Much rather prefer Mozilla's sadly vanished ap
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by willywanker 2y ago
Ancient Roman statues were designed so the heads could be detached and switched, for eg when there was a new emperor on the throne.
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by willywanker 2y ago
Not really-they don't care about this despite multiple complaints from users. As it is non mainstream browsers (having their own rendering engine that isn't Blink or Gecko) are few and far between. It's exactly the same attit
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by willywanker 2y ago
They are a gatekeeper for a huge number of websites, this effectively blocks anyone from using a browser that isn't a wrapper around Blink, or Firefox itself. As it is there are very few independent browsers given Google's absolut
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by willywanker 2y ago
>and sending me a polite email telling me to pound sand. Mostly not even bothering to inform you that you didn't make it to the interview round.
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by willywanker 2y ago
You're describing userscripts, which is what site focused web extensions essentially are anyway. Install the Grease/Tamper/Violet monkey extension and you can find scripts from Greasyfork.org, or author your own. Each script
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by willywanker 2y ago
If XUL were to continue as it does on Pale Moon, here is no need for Web Extensions given they are a reduced subset in terms of functionality compared to the previous XUL/XPCOM versions. And ironically for all the talk of making it mor
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by willywanker 2y ago
Firefox has enshittified itself if your reference point is the original Firefox of the early 2000s that unseated Internet Explorer's dominance. User customization has steadily eroded since version 4 when they started copying Chrome, fr
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by willywanker 2y ago
>you’re not the ones on the receiving end when somebody breaks their browser because they didn’t know what they were doing! about:config already has a warning when you first open it that you'll screw up your settings if you don&#x27
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by willywanker 2y ago
It's a bullshit trend that goes away from the past where the UI was customizable to whatever level of simplicity or complexity one preferred to now where the developer decides what's good enough for you (in this case a totally dum
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by willywanker 2y ago
And this is why I stick with Pale Moon. The desktop UX reached maturity years ago, Pale Moon in the spirit of pre 2011 Firefox (which introduced version 4 with many of the controversial Chrome imitating changes beginning from then) offers a
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by willywanker 2y ago
Now do population density of Japan vs the US, or even the size of all of Japan vs various American states.
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by willywanker 2y ago
Blech.
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by willywanker 2y ago
WA3 was an AOL production so of course it sucked. Buggy out of the box and introduced the media library feature. Version 5 fixed it. Also best part is the media library and extra features were themselves written as plugins so if you didn&#x
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by willywanker 2y ago
I see in this an attitude that's become increasingly common since the 2010s among developers as well as software companies regardless of open source or proprietary - "We know what's good for you, the end user and we will deci
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by willywanker 3y ago
e-readers can go for days to weeks on a full charge depending on how often you use them. Definitely much longer than the average smartphone.
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by willywanker 3y ago
Assuming there's one within walking distance for the kid.

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