LWD

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Safest way of using WeChat on Android?

I live in Canada. My girlfriend is Chinese (also living in Canada), and while we are able to communicate via SMS, her mobile carrier isn’t the best, and so there have often been issues for us with regular texting. She expressed a strong preference to use WeChat, at least as a backup option for when texting fails us. While I...

LWD,

Probably an iPhone user.

Or otherwise concerned about using an app banned by the state.

LWD,

If you’re in the US and mostly worried about one app, you can probably devote a Work folder via an app like Shelter to a GF.

LWD,

Don’t all providers have the ability to filter things?

Personally I have very few problems with DNS providers filtering out malware, that sounds like a benefit to me.

LWD,

I can do this in like 5 seconds with my PiHole and not only am I not a network engineer, I would encourage people to never employ me as such.

So for an actual business that has a bigger budget than me ($0) and more hours to devote to it than me (.02), shouldn’t it be less of a problem?

Lemmy.ml: Shouldn't Firefox have a built-in UI to export and import addon data?

Addons have to implement their own ways to backup and import data, it can be very tedious to do so when using multiple or switching profiles. It wouldn’t be possible to just copy and paste profile folders, like from Firefox Nightly to regular Firefox (since the Firefox version is too new), from Firefox to Floorp, or vice versa...

LWD,

As an independently developed tool, I bet it already exists.

I don’t think things would be purpose built to allow it in Firefox, or the line between backup/restore and synchronization would start to blur, and that opens a whole new world of problems.

Are you running a Tor Relay?

Hiya, so been on the lookout for different services that I could help host for others to benefit from. I think TOR is a great project, and I’d like to contribute. So been thinking about hosting a TOR relay lately, and wondering how people’s experience is with running one? Please correct me if I’m wrong - but as far as I...

LWD,

All you need is a web browser running Snowflake to help people connect to Tor!

snowflake.torproject.org

relay.love

LWD,

For one thing, you don’t have to struggle with a shrunken top toolbar.

There’s a good reason a significant and increasing number of browsers (including Floorp, a Firefox fork) and other applications include view-splitting within them.

There’s a reason Mozilla made Side View for Firefox.

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/…/side-view/

LWD,

Not everybody has a compositor that allows you to un-maximize, minimize, restore, move and resize two windows adjacent to each other simultaneously.

Which one supports this on Windows and Linux?

LWD,

It’s a valiant effort to allow functionality for window tiling, but like the name suggests it’s for arranging things on a screen. It can’t really facilitate two windows behalf as if they’re one window split in two.

LWD,

Floorp is just using Side View? I didn’t realize.

LWD,

I was just curious because I’m pretty sure Sidebery is used in their implementation of a sidebar, in a not-so-under-the-hood way.

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    LWD,

    Up until recently, that was literally the only way for search and content discovery on Mastodon. They’re still very important there.

    LWD, (edited )

    gives us the choice to either pay that or to pay with targeted ads,

    Facebook never offered that choice. The only options were

    • Free: All of your data gets used and sold (and you get ads)
    • Paid: All of your data gets used and sold (except for the stuff that would usually be used to show ads)

    Is it just me or Rob Braxman has lost it lately?

    I’ve never been super-impressed by Rob Braxman. I mean he’s never truly wrong in what he was saying in his Youtube videos, but his explanations are over-simplistic, a bit of a shortcut (but fair enough to reach a wide audience I guess), and mostly designed to sell his meh deGoogled cellphones and equally meh privacy...

    LWD,

    Sometimes it’s easier to sell solutions to the problems that you describe versus problems that are real. I’ve gotten that sense with his videos from the beginning, even the less extreme ones I’ve been recommended in the past. At some point you need to cut your losses, and at this point I think Braxman is more unhelpful than helpful in the tech space.

    LWD,

    I really don’t like seeing people gloating about harm just because it doesn’t affect them negatively, or treating it as justified because the victims were too stupid to know better.

    And this “good” is not correct because the data isn’t for you, even if it was from those projects.

    LWD,

    That phrase is more often used as a post-hoc justification for harm, or to gloat, than as a legitimate warning.

    LWD,

    In the US there are several laws about providing abortions to women. If one such group existed on Discord, it could be used by legal, extralegal, and extremist interests to target those women.

    Trans people just aren’t official targets of legal discrimination…

    …Well, not across every US state.

    …Not yet, at least.

    LWD,

    Discord communities are inherently gated, Lemmy ones intentionally have everything publicly exposed. A better comparison would be between Discord and Matrix rooms, where privacy expectations could potentially vary tremendously.

    LWD,

    If you want to tell me I don’t have the right to critique the browser, be upfront and simply say it.

    And tell me exactly how you expect people to contribute before we earn the right. Especially considering Mozilla does not allow donations to go to Firefox development, and the CEO is badly overpaid.

    LWD,

    Fennec and Mull both exist… Mull is closer to LibreWolf and more likely to break sites, and Fennec is slightly less so.

    LWD,

    It looks like this has been in the desktop browser since 92 (released in 2021) but a new addition to Firefox 120 and beyond. But it’s a staged release so not everybody is going to see this “experiment” at once.

    You can’t Betterfox your mobile Firefox, can you? Thank goodness for decent mobile browser forks…

    LWD,

    That’s interesting. I’ve been a Firefox Beta holdout, thinking about adopting Fennec as my daily driver, but I understand the value of sticking to the browser that receives the most timely security updates.

    The biggest downside is, it looks like the modifications aren’t intended for the mobile app, but they apparently partially work. But in a good way:

    using the base user.js on Firefox Android only improves speed and battery life, which is great because telemetry can be very battery hungry.

    YSK : Dark patterns among large companies are becoming more mainstream (youtu.be)

    While it is no secret that exploitative practices are interlaced with capitalistic tendencies, the practices are becoming intolerable. Signing up to pay usually takes only two clicks that are prominently visible whereas cancelation options are hidden away in deep settings requiring multiple clicks. Pricing often feel arbitrary...

    LWD,

    How long until that sort of thing goes the way of Bibliogram/Barinsta?

    LWD,

    Update: especially because, recently, some banks will use your transaction history to advertise to you, I feel even better jumping onto one with stricter rules regarding that

    pcmag.com/…/chase-bank-to-let-advertisers-target-…

    LWD,

    I’m just glad they’ve kept all twelve themes. “Classic Firefox” is older than “Artist Voices,” and the latter was discontinued a while ago on the desktop.

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