pomegranatefern
@pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works
I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing. New to the Fediverse, literally just picked the instance that seemed the most frictionless. Progressive new urbanist vegan in New England.
- Comment on An Arctodus simus that has been affected by the tapeworm parasite, by Hodarinundu 5 days ago:
On the one hand, perhaps this is my own fault for browsing all while eating spaghetti. On the other hand, what were the odds.
- Comment on Anyone have the "resist fascism by making mistakes" copypasta? I can't find it because the internet sucks 1 week ago:
Are you thinking of this?
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 2 weeks ago:
Got it on both IronFox and LibreWolf. Not perfect, but neither was Brave dark mode. Probably going to have to disable LibreWolf’s anti-fingerprinting feature just so I can tell sites to use dark mode, though.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 2 weeks ago:
I got the export step on my own, but I swear IronFox does not have the Manage Bookmarks option anywhere. Starting to think I’m just going to need to grab a Mozilla account, upload my bookmarks to LibreWolf on desktop, sync bookmarks, and pull them to IronFox that way.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 2 weeks ago:
I hope WaterFox pans out for you! Do you mind sharing the issues you had with LibreWolf?
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 2 weeks ago:
Currently trying mobile IronFox. I’m liking the privacy options and how stuff like unlock origin is literally included in the setup process. Their dark mode is nice and they offer a lot of compatibility options.
Two biggest downsides I’m seeing so far (I’ll see about keeping this updated as I go):
- Can’t seem to figure out how to import my bookmarks from Brave, and I have looked extensively.
- No tab groups (not the end of the world, but it was a nice feature)
- Clears your browser history by default on close, which may be undesired behavior. (I personally tend to use incognito for most things and then transfer sites over to tabs in non-incognito (cognito?) modes if I want them available regularly, so for me this was undesired.)
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 2 weeks ago:
LibreWolf looks promising. No mobile app, but they recommend IronFox for that, so I just downloaded that to play with. Thanks!
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 2 weeks ago:
I have been using Brave for its out of the box ad and tracker blocking. I’d been uncomfortable with the new AI features and had always been skeptical of the crypto integration, but it wasn’t until this post that I realized it was appreciably worse than Firefox on those counts, nor how bad the people running it are.
Obviously, I’m now looking for other options. I’ve seen some good recs for desktop browsers elsewhere on this post, but what I’m not seeing is a lot of good mobile browser suggestions that will have the desired features. What would the folks here suggest for an e/OS browsing experience with similar or better privacy and ad blocking options? I know there’s Firefox, but A. With all the AI it keeps pushing, I’m sure there has to be better and B. I do also have mobile Firefox but have found it substantially less usable for my habit of browsing with a zillion tabs both non-incognito and incognito, so I mostly had only been it when I couldn’t get a video to play in Brave.
I am, obviously, willing to run de-Googled Chromium, but if something else is going to actually support 100+ tabs in a performance fashion I’d be happy to totally de-Chromium too.
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- Comment on Cold and expensive vs hot, cheap and eco-friendly: the contrasting histories of home heating in the UK and Sweden 5 weeks ago:
District heating systems have fascinated me since I learned about them and I wish I could find more information on things like the financial costs and work involved in converting existing neighborhoods to block heating, etc. I don’t like having single points of failure, but the idea of having some kind of central heating station for every square mile or something seems like a happy medium and I’m curious how the numbers actually play out.
- Comment on The Internet Didn't Fail. It Was Taken. 5 weeks ago:
This looks super interesting and is new to me; definitely going to check it out, thanks!
- Comment on The Internet Didn't Fail. It Was Taken. 5 weeks ago:
It’s far from a perfect solution at this point, but I’ve been quite curious about the reticulum mesh network recently. I was looking into it as a disaster resiliency thing, but LBR, is this not also a disaster of a form?
