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Multiple profiles in Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...
I know about this actually, but it's tucked in where none can find it and not really the same visibility as Chrome profiles and easily switchable
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In that case I'm glad to say I'm a happy MX Linux user. I get your point about the OSs especially windows, but what privacy issues are there running intel/amd CPUs?
Intel/AMD CPUs have Intel Management Engine/Platform Security Processor: Having full access to your computer's memory, display, network, and all input devices.
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Also, switch to something non-Chromium if at all possible. Which brings us in the paradoxical situation that if you want there to be any choice left at all in browsers then you're pretty much forced to choose firefox.
I'll switch to FF when they let the scrollbars be styled properly so my got-damn apps don't look like got-damn 1999 with those ugly ass scroll gutters. Between that and the embed situation FF is clearly engaged in some sorta self-sabotage cycle.
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Wikipedia is not funded by ads for example. Lots of other sites neither. So I would say, not the whole internet would go away without ads, but probably the worst parts and what remains is worth visiting.
But how many Wikipedias can there be? They got funding because they are large and have reputation behind them. If you tried starting up a new Wikipedia to compete, guess he much non-advert funding you'd get? Look at how quora tried and failed hard, and have to sell out to survive. Look at stack overflow these days?
They made lots of bad choices, leading to users (including me) leaving the plattform.
And in general I don't think that you need that many wikipedias, my point was, that donation funded websites work -> if people want it to work.
If you care at all about privacy and the future of a free Internet, this really should be that watershed moment that makes you take your head out of the sand. Seriously. Uninstall Chrome today and switch to something else. It’s only if enough people do it that they lose their grip and influence.
I now use Firefox Focus as my default phone browser. It's great! Lacks a lot of the gestures that make Chrome good. But it deletes tab history by default on closing the app which makes it an adequate sandbox to open one-off links in
When set as the default brower, it also provides the in-app web view to other apps (e.g. inside LinkedIn). There it works fine too (also with that cookie-deleting confidence), and it has a drop-down to "Open in Firefox Focus", which is rarely needed but I found it useful for the full experience outside the app web view. That opens near-instantly without reloading, as it just transfers the already open page state.
If you care at all about privacy and the future of a free Internet, this really should be that watershed moment that makes you take your head out of the sand. Seriously. Uninstall Chrome today and switch to something else. It’s only if enough people do it that they lose their grip and influence.
Instead of asking users to uninstall Chrome, ask web devs to make sites compatible with something other than Chrome.
As an example, I would use Links a lot more if OpenWrt forum would work.
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Based on the rubbish ads I get on YouTube on my phone I don’t think google are in any place to know what my interest even are. 5 years ago I used to get adverts for things like films which I would often watch the whole way through. Today I get adverts for phones and Chromebook. It’s like google are unable to sell adverts that actually target me and instead just throw their own rubbish I have no interest in, and even…
>> I guess they don’t have much data on me I would consider this a good thing. My wife and I were talking the other night at a friends who have an Alexa in their kitchen. We were talking about taking a ski trip out West to Colorado or Utah. We get the car to leave. She pops open her Facebook feed and wouldn't you know? She's getting ads for resorts in. . .wait for it. . . .Colorado and Utah along with the two places…
I know logically and rationally how it works in a broad fashion.
But yet I swear that sometimes it feels like something is listening to my conversations!
For instance:
the other night in my Hotel Room, I watched Last Week Tonight which was about Elon Musk.
I turn off the TV, and shortly afterwards check Instagram.
And Boom! I’m seeing Ads for Starlink.
It does freak you out a bit!
I had only my iPhone with me. So no Alexa or Google devices.
But still…. Coincidence or not, it’s disconcerting!
I recently noticed that even when using a VPN to another country and in Private Browsing in Safari and with Location turned off, Google Search still shows results based on my location!!?
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It was NOT inaccessible Look up geocities maybe, most providers gave you some free space anyhow
Geocities had ads for most of its life. It also ended up dead because it wasn't profitable anyways. Not the best example. Providers didn't offer free space, you paid for it with your subscription, and you would lose if you changed provider.
Yeah it had ads but without much targeting
Providers: you still pay for internet subscriptions; you used to get several services included for a fair price
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My experience was that it was incredibly accessible. I easily set up a web server on my home internet connection because my line was synchronous and static IPs were easily available.
> My experience was that it was incredibly accessible. > I easily set up a web server I can't believe you can write one after the other.