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If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web browser

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Re: If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web browser

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Post by BlueTemplar »

city41 wrote: post #116
BlueTemplar wrote: post #115

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In theory you can , but it's a mindset of "if you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail", happily pushed by Google trying to wrestle control over people's computers from Microsoft.

Yeah I agree with that. But Apple has an app store hammer, and Microsoft has a Windows hammer too. Of all the hammers, I feel Google's is the least evil of them all. They're all really bad, the state of technology today is er ... something. But at least with the web, I maintain hardware freedom and really the most freedom overall.

Is it really the least evil ?

There's a wide panoply of programming languages that can be used on Windows PCs, including specifically to make user interfaces, which are cross-platform, like Qt.

Re: If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web browser

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Post by teekert »

ornornor wrote: post #80
teekert wrote: post #23

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I recently switched from Android to iOS and this was super confusing. No plugins, except for on the OS level (like AdGuard) and then those don’t even work in that weird neutered Firefox, only in Safari :s Oh and Bitwarden does not work in FF. It it does work in Safari! So now I, a Firefox by default person switched to Safari (on iOS at least). I wish full Firefox was present.

Try nextdns.io. It blocks ads systemwide (except the YT app, and a few websites that use JS tricks to inject ads) Bitwarden works very well for me in iOS FF and any other app.

Ah, but ad blocking does not work on FireFox, only Safari :s

Re: If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web browser

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Post by ornornor »

teekert wrote: post #122
ornornor wrote: post #80

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Try nextdns.io. It blocks ads systemwide (except the YT app, and a few websites that use JS tricks to inject ads) Bitwarden works very well for me in iOS FF and any other app.

Ah, but ad blocking does not work on FireFox, only Safari :s

Nextdns blocks the dns request so it works with Firefox too. I haven’t seen an ad on ff iOS in ages.

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Post by HWR_14 »

cmeacham98 wrote: post #105
HWR_14 wrote: post #99

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Does uBlock Origin have, like NoScript, an easy way to toggle whether scripts (and other resources) from various domains are loaded straight in the browser? Or is it "modify a config text file and reload". I figured out how to block specific elements, but I do miss the ease of just turning off sources from a GUI of "everything that loaded".

Yes, here's an image of the uBlock Origin UI: https://files.catbox.moe/upzo0c.png You can see you can block by domain, host, and some pre-determined groups like "3rd-party".

It was hidden behind the advanced user setting. Thank you.

Re: If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web browser

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Post by teekert »

ornornor wrote: post #123
teekert wrote: post #122

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Ah, but ad blocking does not work on FireFox, only Safari :s

Nextdns blocks the dns request so it works with Firefox too. I haven’t seen an ad on ff iOS in ages.

Ah, ok, that is also a solution indeed. Still, a bit annoying that one is forced to use the Safari basis, but not any plugins that apply to it...

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Post by skinnymuch »

dang wrote: post #53
skinnymuch wrote: post #45

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How can I vouch for the child comment to your comment that is dead? Does any one know? I would like to know if their comment is wrong or not. I’ve been able to vouch for comments once or twice before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#cvouch

Thanks dang! Honored to have you respond to me at all :)
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