🇺🇸 The Better /kbin update to version 2.1.1 has already landed in the extension stores!
It adds a toggle switch to enable and disable automatic theme changes to the pop-up. Apart from that, the Polish translation in the options has been improved, the file structure has been gently changed, and (FINALLY!) a bug has been fixed, which caused Better /kbin options to open every time the extension was updated (and in some browsers - even every time it was launched). This problem had been present since early versions of the extension, but the source of the problem could not be found - finally, it worked!
If you miss something in the extension or have some interesting ideas about it - reply to this post :) https://www.mstankiewi.cz/projects/other/betterkbin
🇵🇱 Aktualizacja Better /kbin do wersji 2.1.1 już wylądowała w sklepach z rozszerzeniami!
Dodaje ona przełącznik włączający i wyłączający automatyczną zmianę motywu do pop-up'u. Poza tym poprawiono tłumaczenie na język polski w opcjach, delikatnie zmieniono strukturę plików, a także (W KOŃCU!) usunięto błąd, przez który przy każdej aktualizacji rozszerzenia (a w niektórych przeglądarkach - nawet przy każdym jej uruchomieniu) otwierały się opcje Better /kbin. Problem ten występował już od wczesnych wersji rozszerzenia, ale nie można było znaleźć jego źródła - w końcu się udało!
Jeżeli czegoś Wam brakuje w rozszerzeniu albo macie jakieś ciekawe pomysły odnośnie do niego - piszcie :) https://www.mstankiewi.cz/projects/other/betterkbin
#YouTube is making the watching experience worse on #Firefox and Microsoft Edge.
I didn't believe it the first time I heard abt it, since it sounded more like a conspiracy theory than a actual thing, but it's true. Google does add 5s timeout specifically to Firefox and Edge users when they try to watch a video on YT. If you want to know more about it, Mental Outlaw make a very good video abt it (Link: https://youtu.be/v4gXhmzQztE ). I think Google did this, to get people moving to Chrome since the majority will think this is a browser issue, nobody would expect YouTube to purposely doing this. In the attached Screenshot you can see that YouTube checks the user agent of browsers to see if it's Edge, Firefox or not. You can bypass this by changing your User agent to chrome.
Edit: Due a lot of people saying a lot of different things abt it, I want to say that I'm not 100% sure abt how exactly this works, there is a inbuild delay by Google, but who is actually affected, there are a lot of different opinions abt it. I wasn't able to verify this myself in LibreWolf, but this could be the case due my intensive hardening I did and this is just a result of what I found in the code and what Mental Outlaw and others shared across social media, if you got different or additional infos abt this feel free to comment and I suggest everyone ti also check the comment section.
@voxel@privacy This video explains that it's not just #Firefox users being affected by the delay, but #Safari, #Edge, #Brave and even #Chrome itself. It also has nothing to do solely with the #browser you use, but rather a combination of that and your #ad blocker. #Google's testing this with different groups of people, that's why changing your agent string seems to help.
Is there a way to get rid of the question being posed in the screenshot below? I think the idea of installing "apps" to use web sites is utterly ridiculous and do not want to be asked this question, ever. Asking Doctor Internet how to disable this crap produced results telling me to change various Android settings (which didn't work). Installing a half dozen different browsers via Droidify didn't seem to give me any pleasure either.
I am running Vanadium on GrapheneOS, and am willing to switch browsers. Is there anyone who actually knows how to just make this question go away forever?
I recently discovered that you can get Microsoft Edge for Linux (🤢🤮) and am curious… does anyone here use Edge for Linux, or have you ever? What was your reasoning for using it?...
If you have it installed as all #Android phones are forced to, is it necessary to use #Chrome to suffer from its #privacy abuse, or does it do evil in the background regardless?
We are currently witnessing the fallout from monopolization in the browser space. Back in 2007, Internet Explorer received much criticism for its phishing protection mechanism which transmitted all visited websites to Microsoft servers. Mozilla paired up with Google and designed a different system which performed most checks locally and preserved users’ privacy. That’s what healthy competition looks like.
Fast forward to 2023. Almost all web browsers in use are either Chrome or based on the Chromium browser engine. With the competition pretty much eliminated, Google is now pushing its “Enhanced Safe Browsing” down everyone’s throats – which is a nice sounding name for “every website you visit is sent to our servers.” The Internet Explorer approach from 2007 all over again, only that now it’s Google getting all this data. And they certainly won’t do anything evil with it. Yeah, sure.
Reminder: Firefox and Safari are the only remaining browsers worth noting which are not using Google’s browser engine.
Please explain to me like I'm a complete moron how to install FireFox or F-Droid on a new android tablet without using Google Play Store or Chrome. Bottom line, I want to set up my new Samsung tablet w/o any Google involvement.
Lemmy is a Fediverse software for community-based discussion, something similar to reddit.
When you tag Lemmy communities via Mastodon, you submit your toot to respective community as a post. That’s why people are a bit confused here.
Also, first line on your post transforms to a title on lemmy, and it looks like this: “Sur #iOS, le navigateur #chrome de #google va maintenant permettre d’avoir la barre d’”. Lemmy doesn’t use formatting for titles.
I wrote this blog post to inform the people I know who aren't as tech savvy or otherwise don't put any thought into their choice of browser. Another goal is to help get enough awareness on the topic and make sure it fails.
stop using #tabs and your #browser#history to save #links. i shouldn't have to explain why, but i will. you're gonna lose those tabs when your browser crashes (WHEN.). browser history should be cleared often. don't depend on that.
There's a patch for Chromium to implement Google's "EnvironmentIntegrity" which is a power-grab to allow web-sites which are impossible to view on a free browser in case it does things like block adverts or translate or describe for the visually impaired.
More than a hundred comments on the commit in the repository: All negative, calling shame on this attempt to enclose the free web.
Quite right too. No single person is claiming to want the feature because no actual people do want it. Just the controlling brainwashing greedheads.
Firefox users will not have this code, but will that just end up meaning they don't get to view the corporate enclosed web?
Mastodon often fails to show up-to-date replies and information on posts from remote instances. Substitoot is a browser extension that fixes this, by letting you:
See all the replies to any post on your home instance. Local and remote replies are now loaded in parallel, so there is no extra delay.
Interact with all the remote posts as normal. They will be fetched to your instance as needed.
See up-to-date boost/favorite counts on posts.
(new!) See the last 40 posts in any user's profile.
Microsoft Edge, anyone?
I recently discovered that you can get Microsoft Edge for Linux (🤢🤮) and am curious… does anyone here use Edge for Linux, or have you ever? What was your reasoning for using it?...
A list of recent hostile moves by #Google's #Chrome team (Jeff Fortin T. (@[email protected])) (mastodon.social)
A list of recent hostile moves by #Google's #Chrome team;...