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Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by michaelt »

jacquesm wrote: post #599
michaelt wrote: post #587

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> But that's fine isn't it? To a Brexit supporter, the French, Dutch and Irish people were all opposed to the constitution/treaty, and other countries would have rejected it as well if their referendums hadn't been cancelled, and yet it was forced through anyway by a body that considers voters an inconvenience to be worked around. When Brexit supporters call the EU 'undemocratic' this is what they are referring to. O…

Well, if that's what they believe they are comically misinformed. As it was the main reason that constitution would have been a good thing is that it would - hopefully - create a more level playing field. But the UK already had an exceptional position within the EU, and now it has none, with all of the downsides of being outside of their nearest neighbors and largest trade bloc. It's going to be a long road back to i…

> Well, if that's what they believe they are comically misinformed.

Ah yes, you've just reminded me of one of the other issues: Some Remain campaigners had difficulty engaging with people who were on the fence about the EU without calling them ignorant yokels.

> It's going to be a long road back to inclusivity and if and when that happens you can bet that it won't be the nice exceptional situation that was there before.

Absolutely agree with you here - Brexit was such a bloodbath politically a UK re-entry won't be on the cards for a generation IMHO.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by 2devnull »

medo-bear wrote: post #509
jacquesm wrote: post #455

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I've come across many anti EU persons and there are some broad categories: - the uninformed, they have no idea about how the EU came about or what it does, but they're against it anyway - the people on the receiving end of the regulations (anti-trust, advertisers, marketeers, bankers, data sellers etc). They have a very good idea about what it does, but it interferes with their preferred way of getting to more cash.…

What about the people who see the existing EU as an anti-democratic bureocracy

Right. I think some people simply prefer less concentration of power. I suspect it boils down to personality, maybe the big five traits largely determine where one sits with respect to freedom/control of other peoples.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by RamblingCTO »

poszlem wrote: post #508
rollcat wrote: post #398

The article is bollocks. Recommending Pale Moon in 2023 is plain irresponsible. No process isolation/sandboxing for tabs/websites/addons, playing constant catch-up with Firefox on implementing security fixes/mitigations (made more difficult by how far back the fork has happened), disregarding all the optimizations that brought Firefox closer to being on par with Chrome (which translates to higher power usage). In my…

The reason for the article is not to give a good recommendation to people but to promote Tuta (looks like an ad campaign that started about 2 weeks ago: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=tuta.com ).

Just came to comment this. Didn't they have a breach or something? Was also on hackernews. Pretty pathetic article, no idea why this content lands here. @dang any insights if this is authentic?

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by 2devnull »

jacquesm wrote: post #577
medo-bear wrote: post #558

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> they somehow believe that as smaller countries in a much larger world that they would be able to do better than as a bloc Yeah colonies too would have been economically much better off today had they not experimented with national liberation, but thats not how people think. They dont want to be paying taxes to a place they see as foreign. Nor do they want foreigners telling them how to do things. You are aware we a…

I'd rather be dominated in a political arena than in a military one, which is pretty much the alternative. At least as it is the small countries can throw their weight behind the larger one that has their interests most at heart. As far as colonies are concerned, that's a very thorny issue and also even further off-topic, and for NL (where I'm from) it is a very much embarrassing issue.

“I'd rather be dominated in a political arena than in a military one”

Is that really the only choice nations face? Just a binary eu or no eu, domination either by treaty or by military force? What about diplomacy?

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by volsa »

zxt_tzx wrote: post #579
volsa wrote: post #478

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> Or if you're on macOS, give Arc a try. Tried it and immediately deleted the app again. Seriously, asking users to create an account which isn't skippable is just plain dumb?

I understand why you feel this way, but this seems to be the trend for all the latest generation of "polished" software and I think they do this so they can retain users. (Another example that comes to mind is Warp, the terminal written in Rust.) To be fair, as an Arc user, by logging in, I can keep my tabs synced perfectly across my personal and work laptops, which is worth it for me.

> [...] I think they do this so they can retain users.

They lost me as a potential user within the first 10 seconds and I'm probably not the exception here. No idea how you want to retain users if you lose them before they even get to test your software.

> To be fair, as an Arc user, by logging in, I can keep my tabs synced perfectly across my personal and work laptops, which is worth it for me.

I can do that with Firefox, Chrome, Brave or any other browser as well without being forced to create an account.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by silisili »

wccrawford wrote: post #386
silisili wrote: post #86

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Brave Rewards, which is what you are complaining about, is opt in.

They saw it by default, which means it's "opt out".

It isn't. It asks you on install if you want to enroll.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by skeaker »

insanitybit wrote: post #536
fyokdrigd wrote: post #287

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yet huge ux changes between chrome updates are fine? *ponderingfaceemoji

Are there UX changes? I haven't noticed any.

Do you not see the irony in this? By admitting that you don't notice the (real and fairly recent and large) UI changes in Chrome you've just dropped all credibility from any argument you might have had about caring about the UI being different.

Firefox is really not that different. Even the keyboard shortcuts are the same.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by gorhill »

nickelpro wrote: post #365

It's weird to me that no one on Hacker News has pointed out the MV3 version of uBlock works fine. At least I haven't noticed any difference except for the rare minor annoyance of cosmetic filtering (which gorhill removed for political, not technical reasons) Whatever you feel about the politics surrounding MV2 and webRequest, MV3 is by no means blocking uBlock, or ending adblock on Chrome across the board. That's FUD…

> rare minor annoyance of cosmetic filtering (which gorhill removed for political, not technical reasons)

Please clarify.

No political motivation went into uBO Lite. It supports cosmetic filtering just fine -- it's a matter of picking the appropriate filtering mode.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by [deleted] »

tentacleuno wrote: post #601
FirmwareBurner wrote: post #435

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But that wasn't an objective analysis, that's just your highly opinionated opinion with which I found some flaws in, as in you're wrong about several statements. >Google's Chrome does not do this, and searching on google.com only asks for sharing of data with Google itself. You mean sharing your data with Google THE ad-company which then shares your data to advertisers? How is that any more private? >And in true Micr…

> No it's not, you can change it. Aside from the big blue Bing button in the user-chrome (and the MS sidebar), and the fact that switching your search engine in Edge involves jumping through a surprising amount of hoops, as opposed to Chrom[ium/e]. I haven't counted the number of steps, but it's definitely more than Chromium-based browsers -- they seem to have intentionally buried it in Settings (it's right at the bo…

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