yoasif

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[–] yoasif@fedia.io 8 points 3 days ago (4 children)
[–] yoasif@fedia.io 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't feel like talking to posts proxied from reddit.

[–] yoasif@fedia.io 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Given that Eich was the leader of Mozilla for a short while but he found it hard to stay kinda makes me think Mozilla's leaders are currently better (or at least more acceptable). Can you point to leadership at Mozilla as "bad"?

[–] yoasif@fedia.io 4 points 3 days ago

Opera GX has promised to keep MV2 in their code. So I'll just keep using that until I see something different. The other thing is that Opera GX has built in ad-blocker which is pretty much on par with third parties.

I couldn't find a source for either of these claims. Can you help me out?

[–] yoasif@fedia.io 1 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Not trying to be obtuse here, but why are you pruning your history in the first place? Is someone auditing your browsing history? I'm personally not interested in removing my browser history for the most part - and certainly not frequently enough to notice this limitation.

[–] yoasif@fedia.io 2 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Why not just open private browsing windows if you don't want your browser remembering those pages? Are you deciding afterwards that you want to forget those pages?

[–] yoasif@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago (8 children)

I don't think I can clear my history without it closing all of my Firefox instances and making me reopen everything.

That's not true - are you using always private mode?

[–] yoasif@fedia.io 26 points 4 days ago

Firefox can't fix all the broken sites in the world, but they do investigate issues reported to https://webcompat.com

You can help by reporting sites that don't work for you.

[–] yoasif@fedia.io 6 points 4 days ago

It basically wasn't. The original developer allowed a fork on platforms they weren't interested in, drama ensued and eventually, the Apple thing happened anyway.

uBlock became uBlock Origin once the "origin"al developer took over the project again.

[–] yoasif@fedia.io 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Untrue. Safari never had the real version of uBlock Origin (it was always a port) and it lost many features when Apple moved to a new extensions framework (much like Google). See more: https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158

[–] yoasif@fedia.io 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I'm asking you what the misinformation is. Is this harder to investigate because the software is closed source? In my mind undoubtedly yes. I know it was harder for ME to investigate because it wasn't open source - no open issue trackers, SCM repository, whatever.

So please tell me why what I said was misinformation - I'm really curious.

 

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