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The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice
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x10r4
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it has been one full year since i initially saw librewolf was connecting to googleusercontent.com every time it is launched and by chance today I had gone out of my way to use arch so i installed it again today and it is still connecting on each launch. when i had first discovered this i went searching around seeking an explanation and i remember discovering a reddit post on the librewolf subreddit where this problem was brought up and a random user simply waved any concern away. i am still very much of the opinion that if a stock ungoogled-chromium install does not connect to any site when launched then a default install of the mozilla browser fork should not connect to any site, much less one from google. how do the librewolf devs manage to perform the mental manipulations required to consider this compliant with their focus on privacy, security, and freedom? it is entirely incompetent and feels unethical considering the browser is advertised as a way to avoid having to harden your own firefox.
the first time i had tested this i had built librewolf on gentoo with whatever default flags were set but this time i installed the binary from the aur. to scan the network i use iftop as root with
iftop -i wlan0. i do not know what the browser is downloading from google but it occurs every time the browser is launched and only a small amount of data is downloaded. i do not believe the user should have to traverse about
onfig to remedy this when they can just use ungoogled-chromium from pf4public repository and not have this problem. i am never going to make a bug report because i do not care to use librewolf in entirety. any insight as to why the devs have it set up to be this way?
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I don't know. It sounds like you should make a bug report to get an answer from the devs.
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The reddit thread is pretty obvious what's going on unless it's changed:
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Wasn't the entire point of librewolf that you don't have to screw with settings like this?
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I am getting real fucking sick of browser hopping, no viable option is "great", and yet things seem to be getting worse with LibreWolf now?
Zeftax
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I'm hopeful for ladybird, apparently it is supposed to be brand new and unencumbered by all this nonsense, but I haven't looked much into it or tried it yet.
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Too early to tell but they're genuinely trying and I hope it gets to "daily driver" capability soon enough. It's a big undertaking.
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A bunch of stuff to disable on your initial launch like the chatbot, the cryptocurrency wallet, the sponsored ads etc.
They're advertising a discord server on their own website, that has never been a good sign of things to come.
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Oh yeah those. I forgot about them as it took like a minute to disable them.
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Mozilla is making Servo too, but I don't know too much about that. I just hope they finish it before we all die.
Zeftax
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I no longer trust Mozilla to make anything good. Shame about the ladybird discord, that makes me nervous too. I will never use brave because they paid people to shill for it, also it has some crypto built in - hows that useful when browsing websites?
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Disabling the sponsored ads is like 2 or 3 clicks if memory serves. What's this about a chatbot or crypto? Like I know Brave was doing crypto with stuff with some kind of token where if you allowed yourself to be served ads they'd give you some kind of currency you could direct to websites/individuals you chose. But I've been using Brave for a year now and haven't come across anything about crypto or AI in a way that's invasive or noticeable to me.
Josh mostly focuses on Cheddar, but I believe Mozilla cheese to also be low on his list of cheeses. And Mozilla is doing fucking gay as opt-out bullshit with harvesting your data and focusing more heavily on becoming an advertising agency. They're dead, and Google losing the HONOR AND PRIVILEGE of paying Mozilla's bills means they're going to get desperate and shitty before a collapse.
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https://brave.com/leo/
Tried using it, the free LLMs aren't that useful and I'm not gonna shill out $14.99 a month to get a Claude 3.5 Sonnet. You can apparently do video meetings in the browser too for some reason.
prollyanotherlurker
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Mozilla is dead and deserves it, unfortunately. Unless guillotines are brought out to fix Mozilla then it's best people, myself included, continue to hope for something independent of them.
I'm starting to think he's a Rust tranny at this point.
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some commenters on the video gave much better opinions than he did
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Wine 10 RC5 was released an hour ago. Should be the last one before 10 is officially released. Ntsync should be the next big feature after it.
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Yeah about that
I'd move over to mullvad, for a start web push notification are disabled in it by default
Oh come the fuck on, can't we just have one nice thing for once
