Schwim Dandy

Apple made a good step in iOS 26.3 to limit at least one vector of mass surveillance, enabled by having full control of the modem silicon and firmware. They must now allow users to disable GNSS location responses to mobile carriers, and notify the user when such attempts are made to their device.

It seems like the vendor can disable this leak. If we ever get a well-rounded linux OS phone, I imagine this will be moot for those on that platform.

I’m with you. I hail from the days of dial-up BBS. I’ve gotten to watch online devolve from a genuine community of people that often disagreed but knew how to talk about it and could trust that a human sat on the other end.

I’ve been stripping elements from my online life and working my way towards reclaiming some semblance of an internet that betters my life; no corporate social networks, no lowest common denominators at either extreme end and no psychologically-tuned engagement triggers.

We will never get an honest Internet back but like you, I can reclaim my use of it on my terms.

A ton of developers have tried it but not only are they failing at acting like these apps, the apps are also forcing logins more and more often for more content. So even if you faked the app, you still wouldn’t have access to that content unless you also logged in. Just like if you opened tick tock it’s going to force you to log in. If you open Facebook, it will eventually force you to log in a YouTube hides a lot of videos behind a login.

Also, as more and more countries adopt the age verification farce, all of these apps are just going to keep getting more and more restrictive as to when they will finally show you a video.

It really is unfortunate as I would love something like this as well because my entire family shares content fear these platforms and if I want to see it and then talk to my wife about it or whatever, I have to log in on that platform to see that content.

No, I don’t think you’re going to find a solution that will satisfy your need. Google, Meta, tiktok, etc. all have the ability to gatekeep their content. Just as an example, when Youtube locks you out of viewing a video unless you are on their platform and sometimes, also logged in.

They are as big as they are for a reason and choosing not to use them will result in truly not using them instead of using them on your terms.

Regarding frontends like newpipe, Freetube, etc., those are all trying to get by on embed links, which are still controlled by Google and they fail at displaying a video more often than not with the never-ending changes that are made upstream.

Running Linux as an android app is useless.

Dumped Nova as soon as the sellout was announced. Replaced it with Octopi, which I found to be better anyways.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.otp.octopilauncher&hl=en_US&pli=1

Yeah, I’m not clicking that link.

Welcome to Lemmy.

Checks out.

Even the racists know this was nothing more than another instance of murder by police. They would have murdered her if she were any other color.

$1000 for what amounts to the processing power of a netbook with a 13 inch screen is robbery.

It makes sense, it’s a proven pool of gullibility.

I use Librewolf everywhere but android where I use Firefox. The sync feature works perfectly between the different brands. Librewolf does not currently offer a mobile browser.

If you desire that close of a carbon copy to Windows, you should just use Windows.

I moved over to Librewolf last night (except on android) due to this issue. I’m not even anti-AI, I just don’t care for the current mentality to put it into everything and using it as the entirety of your marketing schtick. I don’t need an AI web browser. I need a web browser that can navigate something like chatgpt’s web interface if I want it to.

Librewolf has stated their intention to strip all ai elements from their fork of Firefox and that keeps me off of a chromium browser so I chalk this up as my personal best-case scenario.

Why is this even mildly infuriating? Who’s that emotionally invested in a corporation and a bunch of influencers patting each other on the back?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/suggestive-seven-up-ad-two-fingers-and-thumb/

As soon as you’re forced to buy that vacuum, sure, your analogy is rock solid and it’s like actual slavery.

Never watch a video that ends a statement with a question mark In the thumbnail.

“Next week on As The Nerd Turns, watch as former friend steals all the game controllers and unplugs the snack machine.”