In 2024, please switch to Firefox

Post by cmrdporcupine » Sat, Dec 30, 2023, 9:52 PM UTC

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The only site I've found behaves terribly in Firefox is LinkedIn. Weird pauses on page load that lock the whole browser (not just the tab) for like 5-10 seconds. No idea what they're doing to make this happen, but it's odd. Which is, well, fine, because LinkedIn is mostly a dumpster anyways.

This prompted me to check LinkedIn after months of having it parked in a tab and it worked with no problems. When I have problems with a site it's usually because I'm blocking most JavaScript with uMatrix and I have to find the correct combination of scripts to make the site work for me without having to give away my soul to the gods of tracking. As a software developer, it's been years since a customer told me that…

Post by latexr » Sat, Dec 30, 2023, 10:46 PM UTC

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It only does it if you have a paid account , which is clearly not what the original commenter was referring to. It’s your prerogative to not block ads and to spoon feed all your watch data to Google for easy monetisation and tracking, but it’s clear the original comment wasn’t talking about that route. YouTube is clearly not “the perfect app” in that person’s view when it requires an extra paid service and a higher l…

What I realize is the content you’re so brazenly feeling entitled to cost money to produce, and the idea that your loss of privacy justifies your theft is absurd. You’re not starving, this isn’t food.

Post by verwalt » Sun, Dec 31, 2023, 12:08 AM UTC

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My main Problem is that fn+E won't open the emoji picker. I have to go to another app, insert an emoji there and copy it over. I tried switching to Firefox like 3 times this year, but there's always something putting me off. I really really want to though.

If this is on macOS, what about ⌘ ^ SPC to get the emoji picker?

Post by culi » Sun, Dec 31, 2023, 3:37 AM UTC

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> What matters for the end user is the experience. If using FF will lead to a poor experience on certain websites, then why recommend it? Because holding that against Firefox is exactly what Google is counting on. And the more you recommend it the harder it is for Google to continue its anti-competitive practices. The more you fall a fool for Google's (or Microsoft a decade ago) practices, the worse the experience fo…

Speaking of adblock experience with Firefox (and uBlock origin), Google has managed to slip ads into my Youtube experience. So far I can skip them after watching the first 5 seconds so it's not too bad. Before that they had a popup that would timeout after 15s (?). At that point I tried disabling uBlock on Youtube but found the ads stacked up to much longer, so the 15s delay was more acceptable. As expected, this wil…

Post by latexr » Sun, Dec 31, 2023, 4:06 AM UTC

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The only absurd thing is your assumptions about other people. You have zero idea if I even watch YouTube, which creators I support or how, or what my feelings are on the matter. Understand that I’m not advocating for not supporting creators, that argument is entirely in your head. No one is after you.

The position that what I said is in any way problematic is the position that creators should not be paid for their work, whether you understand that or not. More importantly, you need to learn what the “royal you” is. It’s not literally about you, specifically.