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Delusion6903

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Delusion6903 ,

I love Signal and use it with my family which is the majority of my messaging. But I was surprised to find out the rest of my family on iPhone are missing features I have on Android. This doesn't help bring the iPhone users.

Delusion6903 ,

I use following feed the most, but now that I think about it I need to check out the other feeds more often to find interesting follows. Same goes for trending and discover features, yeah, I'm on Pixeldroid. I rarely use the web too.

Delusion6903 ,

Check out Wiremin
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wiremin.im

It's pretty private but when I uninstalled the community was getting sparse and notifications were slow. Might be better or worse these days.

Delusion6903 ,

It would be perfect except that the fingerprint protection includes forcing the screen refresh rate to the lowest common denominator. Scrolling is unbearable.

They need to report whatever number they want while always using the highest rate instead.

Delusion6903 ,

I know it's intended, but I find it unusable. Report what you want, but disconnect from the actual refresh rate. Best of both worlds.

Delusion6903 , (edited )

And that is exactly why I find it unusable. I have a 120 Hz phone slowed down to a hideous 60 Hz. This is why use Firefox instead of mull.

Delusion6903 ,

Does Firefox standard fingerprint resistance include the refresh rate? Because I use Firefox over mull on Android because of the drastic difference when scrolling.

Delusion6903 ,

Ok, that actually sounds encouraging to me. Honestly, on Android Firefox I don't see the option for resist fingerprinting. I am using Strict Enhanced Tracking protection but that isn't affecting refresh. What am I missing?

Delusion6903 ,

Ok, I've now had time to check this out. Android Firefox is set to strict Enhanced Tracking Protection which says offers fingerprint protection. If that is capping my refresh rate, then I can't see it. Scrolling is smooth.

In contrast, Mull is distractingly flashy when scrolling. There is absolutely something different going on here.

Delusion6903 ,

Cool. Do you know Elvira's handle?

Delusion6903 ,

I suppose that's why you can accept the message or not. I believe they can be reused.

Delusion6903 ,

I have given names to people on the Internet and changed names after our conversation was finished. I think that is much better than giving someone a phone number and much easier to change.

Delusion6903 ,

I don't disagree with you either. But I think that when people give their phone number to a business they are often unaware of all of the nefarious ways it will be used, whether by ignorance or deception.

My point is just that replaceable usernames are perfect for random people you meet IRL or on the Internet because it's minimal trouble to disconnect permanently when the time comes.

Delusion6903 ,

Those are the particular interactions for which I have used usernames. People I know have me in contacts. Also, iirc, if I change usernames in the middle of a conversation that conversation is able to continue until I delete it. Plenty of time to pass on a new name if desired.

Delusion6903 ,

Signal has read receipts, reactions and typing indicators. That's 90% of what any messenger needs. It also let's you schedule texts. I do wish it would do reminders and pinch to resize text though.

Delusion6903 ,

And if they force a particular DNS they're is a reason for that and I don't use that Wi-Fi

Delusion6903 ,

I use an adblocking DNS plus UBO on Firefox

Delusion6903 ,

Librewolf is my go-to

Delusion6903 ,

I'm not a fan of Meta and I don't want to join Threads. But there may be some people over there I would like to follow. At least on Mastodon, we can block any instance we choose to manually. I hate when instances make the decision for me.

Defederation should be a last resort when there are so many options here for people to tailor their own feeds.

Delusion6903 ,

They are going to need an algorithm if they want to keep people. The whole fediverse needs it for that matter. It makes for less work for the user base. User chosen or created is fine, but they need it.

Delusion6903 ,

Mull would be perfect except for the annoyingly slow refresh rate enabled by the fingerprint resistance. It needs to just report a low refresh rate while actually using a higher one.

Delusion6903 ,

Yeah, they need to fix that

Delusion6903 ,

I'll use mull again when I can scroll without the screen looking like a strobe light

Delusion6903 ,

I use Librewolf on my laptop for most browsing, but I keep Google Chrome open just for Gmail, calendar, and drive. I know what you mean about losing the damn cookies making you suddenly have to get a text to authenticate again and that sucks.

When I come across those sites I usually just pull them up in Chrome instead since I keep it open anyway. They are typically not tracking sites anyway and I'm using an adblocking DNS.

Delusion6903 ,

I'm using Librewolf. The problem is that when cookies are deleted some sites will want to text you to "authenticate" your browser again. Your name and password alone are not enough.

It gets old doing this repeatedly. And it pisses me off that they act like they are being so secure by doing this yet they use a text instead of an authenticator app.

Delusion6903 ,

Covermytracks makes never Brave look better than, say Librewolf, because Brave randomizes fingerprinting info while other browsers try to thwart fingerprinting by all looking the same.

Delusion6903 ,

It just might. But my problem might still be that I have my entire history and cookies are deleted as they age past 28 days so anything that I only rarely return to is lost. I might have to check into exceptions.

Delusion6903 ,

You're probably right. I'd rather do it that way too.

Delusion6903 ,

My family is all on iMessage. I told them if they didn't install Signal I wouldn't reply to their texts.

At first, whenever they texted I would just reply with something that looked automated like "This user is no longer available via text message. Please install Signal if you wish to communicate."

Delusion6903 ,

Does it handle the battery usage better? I had to remove Element because it was killing my battery.

Delusion6903 ,

Much like librewolf, my favorite desktop browser

Delusion6903 ,

It is my default. I use ublock and Dark Background Light Text extensions. And the reader view is better than any chromium phone browser.

Delusion6903 ,

On mobile I only use New Pipe for videos. Admittedly, I don't do much YouTube but I haven't noticed any problems on my laptop.

Delusion6903 ,

Sync works great over here. It even syncs history which is great because I use an extension on the laptop to limit history to 28 days and that becomes synced with Android without an additional extension.

Delusion6903 ,

Forgetting politics, I liked Brave. But sometimes they do seem a little shady. I'm loving Librewolf even more, though there's no Android version. It does sync with Firefox and Mull though.

Delusion6903 ,

I use Summit for now. I went through quite a few others but this one is a keeper.

Delusion6903 ,

I don't think Windows is suitable as a daily driver for most people's personal computers. For some business seeking MS support.... maybe.

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