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Mostly, but it’s not perfect.

URL’s can have tracking/surveillance/data harvesting codes appended to them. This option removes those.

They should allow a backdoor, but only on UK Parliament members’ phones.

That’s slightly different. You aren’t paying them to store that specific content, you are paying to rent space in their service. They guarantee that space to be available for whatever SLA they have and for as long as the service exists. If they shut down the service, you are still SOL on that content if you don’t have it backed up locally.

Contrast that to “buying a digital movie”. You are paying to access that content, at that time, and as long as it’s made available on whatever service you paid for it. The latter part is the kicker. My argument is that if I can’t download it in a usable format independent of the platform “selling” it, I didn’t buy it. I rented it. Buying digital movies is just renting them for a longer time frame, unless they let you download it.

I always argue with the less tech savvy people in my life that it’s like buying a car vs. leasing a car. If you buy it, it’s yours, period. If you lease it, it’s not truly yours. You have to give it back when the lease is up, or buy out the lease. You don’t truly own it until after that. The media companies just don’t offer the “buy out the ease, later”, part. While Microsoft retired the whole service, these companies also have this issue when they let media agreements expire with content producers. You buy a movie, but then they decide not to renew their agreement with Paramount? You just lost access to that movie.

Ad companies are getting butt-hurt because the pages you are referencing are being seen even less, due to AI scraping by search engines. So now they are going after:

1. The consumer using an ad blocker. Last amount of protections/rights, easiest target to vilify.
2. The search engines, for stealing content views where ads would be placed
3. The publishers for allowing users that use ad blockers.

If you don’t own the storage, you don’t own the content. You’re just renting it.

Any level of UI element transparency is hard nope from me. Based on your screenshot, it looks like Apple was listening, on that front.

They’ll criminalize personal VPN users for non-work purposes, next.

Challenge to Google Chrome

Uses Chromium as the base

So basically they are doing exactly what Google is, and what Microsoft is with Edge.

Elon pushes directly to main

Crap like this is why I set mine to about:blank

I’m so happy with Voyager being a really good replacement for Apollo. If you use it, donate to the dev. Building apps this good, solo, is hard.

Does SSH have to be your only way? Could you deploy something like Tailscale? Can you restrict the allowed IP ranges on SSH with a firewall rule?

Mozilla’s approach to Manifest V3 prioritizes user choice and control, offering developers more APIs and supporting both Manifest V2 and V3. This contrasts with Google’s approach, which limits extension functionality and will phase out Manifest V2 by mid-2025.

YoutubeDL-Material would fit the bill

I’m on LibreWolf. What made you switch?

Just having the video player be the same across all sites is a win, I don’t even need the multi-threading or pre-cache entire video to love this.

Until you get hit by a card skimmer. Encrypted NFC is safer than a physical card.

Yup, and you can sue Sig Sauer if someone shoots you with one of their guns. You’ll lose due to having no basis for their culpability, but you can try.

Wow, TIL.