Delusion6903

Delusion6903 , 3 months ago to Technology in Majority of Americans now use ad blockers

I use an adblocking DNS plus UBO on Firefox

Delusion6903 , 3 months ago to Privacy in Replacement for Firefox?

Librewolf is my go-to

Delusion6903 , 3 months ago to Technology in Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time

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 , 3 months ago to Fediverse in Pixelfed introduces Loops, a Short-Form Video App

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 , 3 months ago to Privacy in Best firefox build for android?

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

Delusion6903 , 3 months ago to Privacy in Best firefox build for android?

Yeah, they need to fix that

Delusion6903 , 3 months ago to Privacy in Best firefox build for android?

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 , 3 months ago to Privacy in Suggestions for a second browser

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

Delusion6903 , 3 months ago to Privacy in Suggestions for a second browser

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 , 3 months ago to Privacy in Suggestions for a second browser

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 , 3 months ago to Privacy in Suggestions for a second browser

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 , 3 months ago to Privacy in Suggestions for a second browser

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 , 3 months ago to Privacy in Finally got rid of telegram, congratulations to me

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

Delusion6903 , 3 months ago to Privacy in Finally got rid of telegram, congratulations to me

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 , 4 months ago to Technology in 10 Reasons You Should Switch From Chrome to Firefox.

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.