Never gave up on Firefox, still my primary browser.
Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
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Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
#422Is there an extension which stores a history of all my visited tabs, also with some kind of window id in order to group them per window?
I'm not talking about the integrated history which will be lost when cleared (and may have a limit of how long entries are kept)
I've (and Google as well) found my Chrome's Activity History to be pretty useful when I need to search for something I was looking for years ago.
Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
#423Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, attacking the source of revenue that sustains a project is always a sensitive prospect. But then again, what's the alternative for Mozilla? In case of YouTube Premium we've clearly seen that even HN software engineers, demanding six figure pay, will refuse to pay other software companies a few bucks for their engineering work. Where does Mozilla find funding to sustain itself elsewhere?
I'm not a 6 figure HN/SV engineer, don't live in the US. But that's not the problem. YouTube premium simply isn't worth €168/year to me (I don't use it enough) and they'll still track me anyway wherever other people are using google analytics. I have a newspaper subscription to support local journalism and it is the same deal: the site is full of ads and just as bad as the free stuff, except I can see all the article…
As another lowly paid EU developer, I think the money for Youtube premium is completely wroth if considering all the value I got from the creators there over the years.
IMHO it's way more valuable than something like Netflix or Spotify since Youtube is not just brain-rot and entertainment, but a source of so much educational stuff on tech, math and programming, music, independent news reporting, fitness, dancing, finances, mindfulness, cooking, DIY, car and household repair tutorials, etc, so I'm curios why you would think it's not worth the money when you literally couldn't get videos on all those things anywhere else for any amount of money let alone for free(ads).
For example if I go now on Youtube, besides the usual clickbait brain rot, there's small creators from my country explaining various topics of interest on subjects from the nation's high-school final exams(equivalent to the US SAT, UK GCSE or French Baccalaureate) far better than the underpaid and unmotivated teachers usually do at class. Complex stuff on maths, physics, organic chemistry, CS, biology all explained for dummies in the local language based on what's gonna be at the exams. Sure it's the creators that are putting the effort, but Youtube made it frictionless and accessible to everyone in exchange for ads. I would have killed for such a thing to be wildly available when I was in school, and now it's for free on Youtube for all schoolkids to enjoy.
Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
#424I have been a happy Firefox user for 15 years... maybe more. I have seen people use and complain Internet Explorer in my younger days, from version 6 to 7, etc. Even though I mention Firefox to them, they stay with IE. What amazes me is how quick they transitioned to Google Chrome when it released. This was around 2009. It amazes me how quick people jump to something especially when it has a big company behind advert…
> I just don't understand why people would use Chrome Because lots of people who build websites only test them in Chrome. I use Firefox as my main browser, but there are times when I'm forced to open Chrome to do something (e.g. buy visitor parking permits from my local council) even with uBlock Origin disabled. As a non-technical user, if that happens to you even once, what motivation would there be for you to go ba…
"Because lots of people who build websites only test them in Chrome.."
Well I am not one of those people. Back in the late '00s I was testing in IE6, 7 and maybe 8 as well as Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Opera.
I remember, back then, my boss telling me to "only worry about IE" when writing a demo web application. One day I came in and my boss slaps a peice of paper down at my desk, wondering why a customer saw this on their screen. At first I was like "WTF" as it was a bunch of rectangles scattered around. The penny dropped and tried it in firefox.. same result. It was at this point I started to care about ALL main browers regardless of what anyone told me.
It is not as bad today, but my mind set is no different.
Should not be testing on just one browser.
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#425FWIW I got annoyed with chrome's distracting home screen, and pondered how long it would take for a 10+ year chrome user to switch to firefox. The answer (on macOS) was 5 minutes. I was shocked how easy it was (and, frankly, how similar it was). When you first open firefox, it gives options to import all your chrome settings (including saved passwords etc). Super cool.
> FWIW I got annoyed with chrome's distracting home screen
On macos, the Google and Firefox home screens are virtually identical: Big "Firefox" or "Google" title, seach bar, short cuts / recently used. Google is actually less distracting since it never changes.
Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
#426Earlier quoted context omitted.
So it is "extortion" if you are asked to pay for a service you use? A service that is available for free and is very hardware-intensive, mind you.
If they want to charge for it, they're free to put it completely behind a paywall with accounts requiring sign-in, just like Netflix does. The problem is they want it both ways: they want to give it out for free, but with annoying ads, but then they get mad when people don't look at the ads. Where I live, people regularly stand on the street in busy pedestrian areas and hand out free packets of tissues with a piece o…
> but then they get mad when people don't look at the ads
They aren't tracking your eyes and pause the video if you aren't watching the screen. Not saying they wouldn't do that if it was feasible...
They are annoyed that you are actively preventing them from playing out the ads in the first place, and they offered an alternative, to pay for not having the ads, at what is in my opinion a very reasonable price concidering the vast array of content you have access to on YouTube.
So they are effectively making the implicit contract explicit. Watch with ads or pay for no ads, otherwise you can happily choose to not use YouTube.
If you really think hosting video is cheap, make an alternative to YouTube.
Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
#427If you’re on Mac, try Safari. Otherwise, yes, go Firefox.
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#428Unpopular opinion: I don't care about 'privacy'.
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#429Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please try this for yourself. It does not work. Gives the same "Firefox is already running, but is not responding." dialog.
I did try it. It even works from a different VT directly logged in as root if I also specify DISPLAY: sudo -u desktopuser XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 DISPLAY=:0.0 firefox --new-window If I now switch back to the VT running my desktop, a new Firefox window has opened. Maybe your root terminal has other environment variables set that break it? A different DBUS session maybe?
Oh wow, you were right! This solves it:
sudo -u desktopuser XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 firefox
Man, you solved it!!
Thanks a 1000 times!
Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
#430I tried moving to Firefox a year ago but found that the lack of Tab Groups really killed me. There are several extensions that try to emulate this behaviour, but I didn't find that they worked particularly well. And then there are the security concerns. I guess when Chrome break uBlock Origin next year I'll give Edge a go, or one of the various chromium builds
If you like tab groups, try Arc.
I like how every single person who recommends Arc never bothers to mention that it's Mac-only.