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Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by shiroiuma »

jpc0 wrote: post #426
shiroiuma wrote: post #268

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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 concider…

Or, I can simply decline to watch (or even load) the ads, just like I decline to look at the ads in those tissue packs that are given to me on the street. I have no moral obligation to watch any ads on video that is freely shown in response to a normal HTTP GET request.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by esperent »

bjord wrote: post #446
esperent wrote: post #408

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All Chromium-based browsers have a feature that I can't get through my day without. I can write click on any website and say " translate this page into English ". I use this feature around 20 times a day, sometimes more. It's painstaking to do this in Firefox, even with extensions. Once every year or two I try switching to Firefox, then I remember this is the reason why I don't use it and I go back to Chrome. The day…

ask and you shall receive (as of firefox 118) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/website-translation if you need a language they haven't developed a production model for yet, you can install the beta version of the add-on, which supports more languages https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-translations-ad...

Oh nice! Good to see they are working on it. Unfortunately it's only for 8 European languages to far, and the beta version only adds 4 more.

I need Vietnamese. I guess I will have to wait another few years for that. But still, it's progress.

I wonder if they will add the option for cloud providers. While I love the idea of the added privacy of doing it locally, pretty much everything I'm translating is publically available so privacy is not important to make compared to the quality of the translation.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by esperent »

ghusto wrote: post #432
esperent wrote: post #408

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All Chromium-based browsers have a feature that I can't get through my day without. I can write click on any website and say " translate this page into English ". I use this feature around 20 times a day, sometimes more. It's painstaking to do this in Firefox, even with extensions. Once every year or two I try switching to Firefox, then I remember this is the reason why I don't use it and I go back to Chrome. The day…

It's build into Firefox. If you're on a page not in your default language, a translate icon will appear in the URL bar. Click, done :)

Yeah, I see they added that in the last but one release. However it's only for a tiny number of European languages, and not the one I need which is Vietnamese.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by esperent »

K5EiS wrote: post #464
esperent wrote: post #408

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All Chromium-based browsers have a feature that I can't get through my day without. I can write click on any website and say " translate this page into English ". I use this feature around 20 times a day, sometimes more. It's painstaking to do this in Firefox, even with extensions. Once every year or two I try switching to Firefox, then I remember this is the reason why I don't use it and I go back to Chrome. The day…

I use this extension, it even lets you highlight text and translate just that too. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/traduzir-pagi...

Wow, thank you! That actually works really well.

I've tried quite a few firefix translation extensions and all of them either open a new tab or a popup, this is the first one I've seen that translates in place.

OK, sold. Switching to Firefox today :)

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by esperent »

malermeister wrote: post #439
esperent wrote: post #408

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All Chromium-based browsers have a feature that I can't get through my day without. I can write click on any website and say " translate this page into English ". I use this feature around 20 times a day, sometimes more. It's painstaking to do this in Firefox, even with extensions. Once every year or two I try switching to Firefox, then I remember this is the reason why I don't use it and I go back to Chrome. The day…

The latest Firefox now has that functionality. Firefox translations also have the added benefit of being 100% on-device, your data doesn't have to go to a Google server somewhere.

... for an extremely limited number of European languages. Great to see progress though.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by blibble »

jacquesm wrote: post #667
blibble wrote: post #665

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plenty of bankers there too

Ok, so for some odd reason everything in your surrounding contradicts everything that I've been able to dig up on what powered Brexit. I'm happy to believe that this is your genuine interpretation of what happened but I'm going to stick with mine because it appears very much that that is what the aftermath has confirmed: that finance + wealthy parties put up the money that financed the Brexit campaign and that they a…

> I'm happy to believe that this is your genuine interpretation of what happened but I'm going to stick with mine because it appears very much that that is what the aftermath has confirmed: that finance + wealthy parties put up the money that financed the Brexit campaign and that they are the ones that stood to gain from it most.

where did you get your information exactly? a section of the high quality British press?

there's your answer

remain had almost the entire British establishment behind it: the government, the civil service, all large political parties, most of the media, the City and all other industry. these groups mostly had their own self-interested reasons for wanting to remain ($$$ at risk dependent on the result)

leave had Aaron Banks, Farage and maybe a dozen other prats. they also had their own self-interested reasons for wanting to leave ($$$ at risk dependent on the result)

in terms of access to resources, remain absolutely dominated leave by several orders of magnitude

this was one of the reasons it was such a shocking result

> That the economy as a whole shrunk doesn't seem to have impacted them much

it didn't shrink as a whole, it's larger than it was in 2016

and since 2019 it's grown more than its France and Germany (peer nations), in both absolute and relative terms

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by nickelpro »

gorhill wrote: post #619
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.

I'm misremembering from the initial "uBO Minus" release [1]

[1]: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/a559f5f2715c58fea4d...

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by rattray »

volsa wrote: post #478
bad_user wrote: post #100

I keep seeing Edge mentioned as a worthy alternative, and I just don't get it. First, all Chromium-based browsers will eventually block uBlock Origin for the sole reason that they can't maintain Manifest v2 on their own, and they all rely on Chrome's Web Store anyway. This won't happen immediately because Manifest v2 will probably stick around for longer because of enterprise users, but the writing is on the wall. Th…

> 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 disagree with this decision by Arc, and had the same reaction you did, but I just want to note that I'm very glad I gave it another shot months later – it really is a fantastic browser, much better than FF or Chrome.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by gorhill »

nickelpro wrote: post #677
gorhill wrote: post #619

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> 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.

I'm misremembering from the initial "uBO Minus" release [1] [1]: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/a559f5f2715c58fea4d...

This was the first commit, and the commit message is accurate about the technical limitations of this first version.

If you want cosmetic filtering and other advanced filtering in the current, more mature version, you need to explicitly grant host permission for either the site or everywhere.

Re: Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

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Post by cpeterso »

Semaphor wrote: post #326
eloisant wrote: post #246

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The way profiles (or tab containers) work in Firefox sucks compared to Chrome honestly. I could never find a way to open in the correct profile from external applications.

Containers are amazing imo. And profiles? -P "profile name" is not that hard.

You can also create and switch between multiple Firefox profiles by entering about:profiles in the Firefox address bar.
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