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SpellforceFan said:
Are there any advantages of Librewolf over let's say Waterfox? I'm using the latter, mainly because it is more focused on privacy and its main dev interacts with the userbase on plebbit (had a few interactions with him, he'd respond to queries and help diagnose issues). All I've heard of Librewolf (and Palemoon coincidentally) is that their devs are drama queens and trannies.
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Librewolf follows Firefox builds very close to the upstream, 3 days with the lastest patch. Meanwhile Waterfox's last update was two weeks ago. Waterfox's main page looks like modern web shit, so I trust it less. Librewolf doesn't have any female anime profile pictures under their "core contributors" section, so the tranny part at least seems false for the core team.

Don't see how waterfox is more 'focused' on privacy than Librewolf, they advertise about the same. It also doesn't appear to have an adblocker installed by default, so Librewolf does much better with uBlock origin pre-installed.
 
Yandex Captcha Solver said:
It also doesn't appear to have an adblocker installed by default, so Librewolf does much better with uBlock origin pre-installed.
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Good, I don't like shitware that ships with dozens of plugins by default, regardless if they're useful or not. I'm not a nigger, I can make my own decisions.

As for WF being behind on updates, it still gets security hotfixes as fast as reasonably possible, it's just the soy features that Mozilla foundation implements that are delayed.

Really the only thing that's inexcusable and unforgivable about Waterfox is that the dev is bri'ish.
 
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do any of these do more than toggle a bunch of about config options and include plugins? Not dissing them, genuinely curious. Much of the breakage you see with those vis-a-vis chromium browsers is usually by them toggling off webgl and widevine DRM in my experience. If you revert those parts they should work fine with everything.
 
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Betonhaus said:
I just run Edge for Linux? It has pwa support and is stable and fast.
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I assume you mean Microsoft Edge? I wouldn't trust Microsoft with anything on my computer.

For a Chromium-based browser, I'd say use the actual Chromium browser - it's just Google Chrome but without most of the Google stuff. I only use it for those few stubborn websites that don't play nice with Firefox or those based on it (like the GrapheneOS web installer or Android flash tool). Chromium also comes extremely barebones, so anything else you have to add yourself, which I like. That's one of my issues with the likes of Brave - where it tries to give you way too much upon fresh install imo
 
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Mister Uno said:
I am actually impressed how decent Firefox on mobile has become. Hell I switched to Firefox on desktop to and I honestly like it more then Brave. Think the latter is trying to do too much.
It's criminal how some sites require you to have a chrome-based browser.
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It doesn't run like shit anymore, so that's nice. I do have two issues with it:
Phantom tabs that do nothing when tapped in tab overview.
Going fullscreen in video often glitches out and kicks me out to home screen, going back and pressing fullscreen again works, but it's annoying.
Mind you, I'm using Pixel with latest Android so there's that.
Ability to play media in background is nice.
 
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For those who are searching for a good terminal emulator, especially under windows, I recently found WezTerm to be very nice to use: https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/index.html .

It has multiplexing, is pretty fast and I did not notice any particular limitations (also can display images within the terminal, which may or may not be useful for you). It seems somewhat slower than Alacritty, but has more options (e.g., the multiplexing).
 
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Personally I use Firefox. I don't know why I am sticking to it despite its getting heavier and clumsier with each major update. I've briefly run through ProtonMail website and the charges they are applying to their services is... well... funny to say the least. For example they ask nearly 300 Euro for family plan. For such money you can buy small, used NAS, buy domain and host your e-mails personally without third-party involved. If someone is looking for such service and have sufficient amount of cash to spend I doubt there are connoisseurs of protection for their offsprings and spouses.

I have major e-mail address for official stuff and I am forced to migrate it to other service because amount of literal spam and junk I am receiving is frustrating. If it was due to my wrongdoings or omissions I wouldn't change e-mail address but the number of data breaches from third-party websites that in someway gathered my e-mail address causes this flood of literal shit. As summary I may say I am moving to some paid e-mail service from Yahoo-alike site.
 
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TerribleUser09 said:
Personally I use Firefox. I don't know why I am sticking to it despite its getting heavier and clumsier with each major update. I've briefly run through ProtonMail website and the charges they are applying to their services is... well... funny to say the least. For example they ask nearly 300 Euro for family plan. For such money you can buy small, used NAS, buy domain and host your e-mails personally without third-party involved. If someone is looking for such service and have sufficient amount of cash to spend I doubt there are connoisseurs of protection for their offsprings and spouses.

I have major e-mail address for official stuff and I am forced to migrate it to other service because amount of literal spam and junk I am receiving is frustrating. If it was due to my wrongdoings or omissions I wouldn't change e-mail address but the number of data breaches from third-party websites that in someway gathered my e-mail address causes this flood of literal shit. As summary I may say I am moving to some paid e-mail service from Yahoo-alike site.
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Wouldn't services like SimpleLogin or Addy be useful for you?
 
Does anybody know whether there is any good alternative for NFC card payments that's not Google Wallet or Apple Pay?

I am using a rooted Android and Google Wallet refuses to work on a rooted device with a custom ROM. Whatever trick I try to hide root from the app, it simply won't work.
So, is it really impossible to have NFC payments and be in control of my device at the same time?

Switching to Apple is obviously not an option.
 
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YazeePro said:
Whatever trick I try to hide root from the app, it simply won't work.
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I recommend checking out this thread on the Play Integrity API https://xdaforums.com/t/info-play-integrity-api-replacement-for-safetynet.4479337/

It's what they use to determine if your device is rooted or running a custom ROM. There's a module for attempting to bypass the checks and a cursory search indicates Google Wallet only requires up to MEETS_DEVICE_INTEGRITY so you could use it in conjunction with this module for NFC payments on your rooted device. https://xdaforums.com/t/module-play-integrity-fix-safetynet-fix.4607985/

Though I have to ask: Do you trust literal strangers on XDA Forums enough to run their code as root on a device you're using for payments? I'd rather pay in cash or use a plastic card as a last resort than trust these weirdos.
 
S3y88 said:
is proton mail + vpn worth it or should i get mullvad instead ?
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If Proton's "Mail Plus" or free plan is sufficient for your needs, I suggest go with Mullvad instead as then it's $2 cheaper. Mullvad is an extremely good VPN and has some cool features like SOCKS5 multihopping which Proton does not support.

What I like about SOCKS5 multihopping is that once the tunnel is established, you're actually connected to every Mullvad server all at once. Essentially you can jump into their network at a close and convenient server, then exit your traffic at another server in an entirely different place. There's no limits on this, you can hop from place to place as quick as you can press a button.

I use this with SwitchyOmega on Brave to hop from proxy to proxy whenever I have issues with rate limiting or GeoIP https://github.com/FelisCatus/SwitchyOmega

You can use FoxyProxy on Firefox to do the same thing too. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxyproxy-standard/

Mullvad has an article explaining how it works https://mullvad.net/en/help/different-entryexit-node-using-wireguard-and-socks5-proxy
 
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Flaming Dumpster said:
If Proton's "Mail Plus" or free plan is sufficient for your needs, I suggest go with Mullvad instead as then it's $2 cheaper. Mullvad is an extremely good VPN and has some cool features like SOCKS5 multihopping which Proton does not support.

What I like about SOCKS5 multihopping is that once the tunnel is established, you're actually connected to every Mullvad server all at once. Essentially you can jump into their network at a close and convenient server, then exit your traffic at another server in an entirely different place. There's no limits on this, you can hop from place to place as quick as you can press a button.

I use this with SwitchyOmega on Brave to hop from proxy to proxy whenever I have issues with rate limiting or GeoIP https://github.com/FelisCatus/SwitchyOmega

You can use FoxyProxy on Firefox to do the same thing too. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxyproxy-standard/

Mullvad has an article explaining how it works https://mullvad.net/en/help/different-entryexit-node-using-wireguard-and-socks5-proxy
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Thanks for the info, is there a way to buy proton mail without card/paypal ?
 
Is anyone here having issues with Tartube downloading comments? Tartube downloads videos just fine, but for whatever reason since starting about over a month ago, I have been unable to get the comments to videos that I download. They might not all be roses and sunshine, but I do find some value in the discourse of some videos that I watch, either for adding addendums to the video itself and providing other clarifications in addition to that, or just general banter that adds to the other half of the video itself.

Thus far, I have been unable to figure out what is causing the issue. I checked on the github for Youtube-dlp and Tartube, but there does not appear to be any mention regardless.
 
S3y88 said:
is proton mail + vpn worth it or should i get mullvad instead ?
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My only real issue with Proton Mail is that while their Android app technically doesn't require Google Play services, it's crippled without it - main thing being notifications are broken. So you can use the Proton Mail Android app without Gplay services or a replacement for it, but no notifications is a pain. I prefer Tutanota.
 
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