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Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by FergusArgyll »

jacquesm wrote: post #480
FergusArgyll wrote: post #473

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- People who are employed by "the people on the receiving end of the regulations" and therefore get lower wages than in the US Switzerland is the outlier, after the US it's a pretty steep drop. this is adjusted for Purchasing Power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_w...

Average wage is a very narrow view of what ultimately translates into quality of life. You couldn't pay me to live in the US. I've gotten very close to immigration, but after seeing up close what kind of predatory situation a new immigrant into the US lands in I figured it isn't for me. Though I totally understand why you would want to move there if you are from a country in Asia or Latin America. Then it is a huge s…

That's fair, but pretending there's no downsides to regulation besides for some uber-wealthy owners isn't

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by albertzeyer »

JonathanBeuys wrote: post #371
pmontra wrote: post #296

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I didn't test it but probably DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus \ DISPLAY=:1 \ sudo -H -u normaluser \ --preserve-env=DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS,DISPLAY \ firefox I'd add -H to the options of sudo to make it set the home to normaluser's one. I assumed that your DISPLAY is :1, which is what my Debian has set for me. That's another variable that you could read from the environment of Firefox. You migh…

Whe don't you test it? It takes less time than to guess and have a back and forth via HN comments.

The parent gave all information which should help you in figuring it out by yourself now. The message it, it should work with the right env vars, and you have multiple example env vars to check for (DBUS related, DISPLAY, etc) and Google for. This is your work now.

(You could also test the extreme case: Just copy all the env vars.)

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by jacquesm »

FergusArgyll wrote: post #481
jacquesm wrote: post #480

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Average wage is a very narrow view of what ultimately translates into quality of life. You couldn't pay me to live in the US. I've gotten very close to immigration, but after seeing up close what kind of predatory situation a new immigrant into the US lands in I figured it isn't for me. Though I totally understand why you would want to move there if you are from a country in Asia or Latin America. Then it is a huge s…

That's fair, but pretending there's no downsides to regulation besides for some uber-wealthy owners isn't

Let's have some of those downsides then.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by Barrin92 »

seanthemon wrote: post #57

Highly recommend brave (with all the crypto nonsense shut off), it's a pretty fast browser, nice features and works with chrome extensions. I've used it successfully for the past 3 or something years

>Highly recommend brave (with all the crypto nonsense shut off),

That's essentially Vivaldi. Also stores your data in Iceland for people who care about that kind of stuff and has some pretty good QoL features build in like tab tiling.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by FergusArgyll »

jacquesm wrote: post #483
FergusArgyll wrote: post #481

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's fair, but pretending there's no downsides to regulation besides for some uber-wealthy owners isn't

Let's have some of those downsides then.

wages, adjusted for purchasing power see the wiki link. innovation suffers. more government intervention is needed. I'm not saying these are slam-dunk, but there are upsides and downsides to everything and one doesn't have to be a millionaire to be anti-regulation (I am not, and I am) EDIT: moved a period

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by williamdclt »

mrweasel wrote: post #400
vasvae3 wrote: post #212

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You are annoyed with chrome's distracting home screen that shows your most visited sites but you are not annoyed with firefox's distracting home screen that shows your most visited sites plus some ads?

It continues to surprise me that people use the home screen, regardless of it being Firefox or Chrome. New window, new tab, I always set that to a blank page, in my mind that should be the default.

It continues to surprise me that people don't make their "new tab page" useful, it's probably the page you see the most everyday. Make it your own, put your bookmarks in there or whatever is useful (I use https://start.me/)

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by tim333 »

jpc0 wrote: post #391
masfoobar wrote: post #148

I 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…

> What amazes me is how quick they transitioned to Google Chrome when it released. When Chrome originally released firefox was better than IE but chrome was head and shoulders above both of them. Moving to Chrome from firefox at the time was a breath of fresh air. Nowadays there's very little difference, there was a short period of time I found Firefox faster but now I doubt most users would be able to tell the diffe…

Same here plus you get used to whatever you use in terms of how the commands and extensions and the like work. I've got Chrome, FF, Safari and others and tend to go with Chrome as it's what I'm used to. Also with FF I'm not sure how to translate the text from foreign languages. I tried some extensions but nothing so far works quite like Chrome where you just right click anywhere and click translate.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by MikeRichardson »

xvector wrote: post #393
ta1243 wrote: post #311

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Adverts are a theft of time and attention, they are manipulative brainwashing by companies with more resources than the majority of countries.

Ads are fine. I've discovered so many fantastic products through them (did my research before buying, of course.) And they are also the only business model we have been able to think of that enables the free flow of information on the scale we see today. Unless governments step up to foot the bill for Maps, YouTube, Reddit, etc, ads are all we've got. I've never seen an ad that "stole" my time and attention. They are…

Oh, ok. So next time I get one of those full page ads that darkens the entire page - I should just concentrate really hard at reading the barely visible content. Maybe it will go away if I scroll really really fast.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by tclover »

7373737373 wrote: post #97
bilekas wrote: post #20

I love Firefox, but for some reason I can't pull away from Brave at the moment for my daily driver. Time will tell how long they can hold out against the changes that will eventually filter into chromium. I see the future of adblocking etc being put back to the network side, things like piHole should get a 'new' lease of life.

Pi-hole will never be an option for the 99.99%

Pi-hole doesn't work for youtube ads unfortunately

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by londons_explore »

aembleton wrote: post #348
londons_explore wrote: post #156

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> they can't maintain Manifest v2 on their own The code for manifest v2 is really very simple (when you know that functionality for manifest v3 must remain available) - maintenance of it as an unmerged patch would be pretty straightforward. I suspect such a patch could be just 10's of lines of code - you're simply changing the condition list under which a web request can be blocking or not.

Isn't it about keeping the manifest v2 API running?

It isn't a server API or anything... It's just some code in chrome, and it has to remain because it's still allowed to be used in Manifest v3 but for a narrower scope of usecases.

(Note - I'm specifically talking about the controversial WebRequestBlocking part of the changes - the rest of the manifest v2 to v3 migration is largely just like a python 2>3 migration - there is equivalent functionality for everything).

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