I’m quite satisfied with my move away from google products. Moved from gmail to protonmail. Chrome to firefox and search to ddg. Ddg isn’t perfect though and I find myself using !g tag more often than I’d like.
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Re: No to Chrome
#22> “Setting up such a “Google free” phone requires a significant amount of time, dedication, and skill (not to mention a personal server), definitively far beyond to what I’d trust my mother to comprehend.” [0] @ project owner: I'd consider changing (or replacing) the quote to use age and gender neutral language; e.g. "[...], definitively far beyond to what I’d trust the average user to comprehend". [0] https://notoch…
The proper age- and gender-neutral language is of course 'Aunt Tillie'. /s
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#23I have been using Firefox for several years now. Energy management is still an unsolved problem on MacOS (Firefox 71 on 10.14.6). They have been making improvements in the last several releases, but "Avg Energy Impact" remains around 40 for me (when browsing web pages, higher when streaming video). I also noticed how different colors are between Chrome and Firefox. That becomes more obvious in the dark mode. https://…
that bug is closed as dupe of [1] which is marked fixed, though it's not clear to me whether the fix was to implement a flag that enables proper rendering or to do it properly by default.
[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=667431
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#24I am quite satisfied with using chrome. Once there will be suitable alternative i will gladly move away from it tho, just a breath of fresh air.
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#25Even if you have no issue with Google, this is still a good idea to encourage competition. Honestly, Chrome is not as good as it used to be anyway.
For me, Google Maps and Waze are the hardest things to kick.
And YouTube...
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Berlin based? Where's the impressum then?
Isn't that only required for a commercial website?
Technically yes, but... In front of several german courts simple web blogs and other (definitely) non-commercial projects have lost their cases against "competitors" (usually trigger happy shyster lawyers that see a quick way to make easy money). The wording of the law states that every publication platfrom that operates "Geschäftsmäßig" (like a business) is liable to have an imprint. The courts have defined the word "Geschäftsmäßig" as meaning regularly -- so it is only important how regularly you post, not if you make money with it or not.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Berlin based? Where's the impressum then?
Isn't that only required for a commercial website?
The internet in Germany is heavily policed and censored. There was a post a few days ago here on hackernews where someone from another country had their domain abusively confiscated by some german police entity.
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#28Google is masking website content into their content. We need to make a move before its too late
How?
They scrape top results and show it directly in a box (think wikipedia, imdb, lyric engines etc.) thus discouraging users from actually clicking the link.
Personally, I think it’s nice to have the content instantly available and not having to go to a website for it but I can see how for content producers this means wrapping their websites and making money out of their content.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was using Safari up until they have yanked support for extensions. The web is unusable, outright hostile place without a proper script blocker. I can tolerate a lot of things, but browsing the web without uBlockOrigin isn't one of them.
But Safari still supports extensions, surely? I’m using it with extensions, there are not stories I can see about them removing support, and their Développement pages are still up.
Safari does still support extensions, but they operate differently now.
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#30> “Setting up such a “Google free” phone requires a significant amount of time, dedication, and skill (not to mention a personal server), definitively far beyond to what I’d trust my mother to comprehend.” [0] @ project owner: I'd consider changing (or replacing) the quote to use age and gender neutral language; e.g. "[...], definitively far beyond to what I’d trust the average user to comprehend". [0] https://notoch…
If the project owner is referring to their own mother, why would they need to use age and gender neutral language?