Washington Post also called Ukraines attack on russian bombers "dirty"
Can you elaborate?
Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex)
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you try finding a print button?
To… save? I get that you can print to a file and it’ll save it that way of course, but damn that strikes me as really confusing for non-techies
Save or export would make more sense but printing to pdf has been the way to do it forever.
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#73What is the alternative to chrome that doesn’t crash or is not noticeably slower?
I’m using Firefox and Kagi’s Orion browser [1] on my Mac and Safari on iOS. [1] https://kagi.com/orion/
Is it easier to build a browser for MacOS? Arc was Mac only for the longest time, until they released a crippled Windows version. DuckDuckGo browser started Mac only.
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#74I've noticed that recent Chrome version does not allow me to download the pdf I'm viewing. I had to open it in Firefox. The Chrome browser only allowed me to save it to drive (cloud)
I downloaded a PDF within updated Chrome earlier this morning without problems. I would be looking at your setup to see what makes it unique.
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#75What is the alternative to chrome that doesn’t crash or is not noticeably slower?
Zen Browser works well for me. It's a Firefox fork but privacy-focused whereas Mozilla recently became an ad company and published hostile TOS changes. No issues I had when I was evaluating LibreWolf.
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#76What is the alternative to chrome that doesn’t crash or is not noticeably slower?
I feel like people sleep on safari, especially on Macs.
I continually try, but Safari is the only browser where I routinely experience crashes once or twice a month. There are also some random incompatibilities with certain websites (related to the CORS issue as mentioned in another comment) that force me back into another browser anyway.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're drinking Apple kool-aid if you think Safari isn't holding web back. Lots of anti-google people dislike Safari. Safari isn't the only non-google option you know.
Safari is far from perfect, but I’m glad they don’t implement everything Chrome does. Many of the complaints come down to “Safari doesn’t even support RunBitcoinMinerInBackground.js. It sucks!” And on the plus side, it’s vastly better at power efficiency, meaning I can use my laptop longer without being plugged in.
sure if you want to live a life stuck in the App Store and Play Store walled gardens... having a decent web browser is the way towards a truly open web
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#78What is the alternative to chrome that doesn’t crash or is not noticeably slower?
Any browser that lets you block javascript? It is weird how we now call browsers fast because they can quickly render the most cancerous content.
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Does the ad blocker prevent leaks of your information? I know it blocks a use of your information against you (targeted ads). And any external source is a potential leak (e.g. the kinds of things that CORS is supposed to reduce). But does an ad blocker specifically leak more, or just reduce the incentive to collect that information?
A full-featured ad blocker (uBlock Origin original, not the neutered Lite version that runs on Chrome now) will intercept requests at the network level and prevent your browser from requesting the advertisers' JavaScript code. Your browser not only won't show the ads, it won't run the code that was supposed to show them or even send a request to the advertisers' servers. This blocks most existing tracking methods. Th…
1st-party would likely be prevented by disabling cookies? Obviously they could fingerprint every visitor on every request, but most just set an ID cookie and check it on subsequent pages I think, since that's good enough for tracking most people (who aren't actively trying not to be tracked). Of course, that breaks things that need a session (like a cart), but depending on what you want from a site, it could be fine.
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#80Washington Post also called Ukraines attack on russian bombers "dirty"
That's one opinion from one columnist. Also, the full phase was "dirty war," by which they seem to mean one dominated by covert operations by intelligence services rather than conventional forces, on both sides.