SloganLessons

joined 1 year ago
[–] SloganLessons@kbin.social 16 points 7 months ago

As a piece of software, nothing. It’s an open source browser, and has an added bonus of having many privacy settings on by default. Not even firefox can say the same, it comes with telemetry, pocket and whatnot out of the box.

But there are some fair criticisms about the company and its administration. For example, there was an incident years ago when you signed on a crypto exchange, it would swap the sign on link for their own referral link. They claimed this was an error and quickly patched it, but I don’t buy it.

You’ll quickly notice that a lot of people on lemmy passionately hate brave. So expect a strong bias and, as a result, truths but overblown, half truths and misinformation. Don’t ignore what they say but double check them.

[–] SloganLessons@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

I don’t have a habit of sharing identifiable information on the internet, but that goes doubly true here.

While using another instance, the one with the bee theme, I deleted a comment that I made sometime sooner. Out of curiosity I checked that same thread from the other instances, and there was one where my comment was still showing up.

Now, that comment wasn’t anything special. I said something wrong and found out later, so I deleted it.

But what this means is that, if I share something I shouldn’t, I don’t trust that every instance will delete my comment.

[–] SloganLessons@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago

Strongly recommend this one. It’s also available for chromium, Safari, and iOS

[–] SloganLessons@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

1 - YMMV, as I mentioned

2- as a consequence, popular distros like Ubuntu and Fedora too. I expect other GUI's and therefore distros to follow

3- Didn't mean to imply they don't, what I meant is that they have issues and will make users jump to other ships.

4, 5 and 6, Lutris and later Steam itself when I was running out of ideas, and yes it does run on Linux as long you can figure out the correct proton/wine version or buy the game from Steam. Point here was that gaming on Linux can be convenient or very annoying, depending on the games you want to play. YMMV

[–] SloganLessons@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just correcting because your comment insinuated that google doesn’t have significant influence over android, which is far from the truth. They could as well own it.

I didn’t mean to dispute or address the rest of the comment.

[–] SloganLessons@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The Android Open Source Project isn’t owned by Google

One of those things that technically is true but in practice it isn’t. Just like chromium. Google is the main influencer of the project and it’s naive to think otherwise.

[–] SloganLessons@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Like moths to a flame lol

(I would also like to participate pls)

[–] SloganLessons@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I can see that you’re enthusiast and care about firefox, it’s thanks to people like you that these tools get better. But me, for lack of better words, can’t bring myself to care that much about any piece of software that ain’t related to my job, nevermind reporting issues. I’ll use whatever gives me less trouble in my personal time, if in the future things change for chromium, I’ll come back to firefox.

When I get home I’ll check my extensions and pass you the ones that don’t exist for firefox. Right now the only one I remember isn’t really an extension, it’s the text to speech function of Edge, that uses their AI voices.

[–] SloganLessons@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From what I remember, autoridade tributaria had some buttons or links that wouldn’t do anything on firefox. I remember suspecting it was javascript, but then noticed that Chrome didn’t have issues.

Seg social and fundo ambiental had odd behaviors but I can’t remember exactly what they were.

[–] SloganLessons@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

To be clear, I don’t like Chrome itself, I use Edge and sometimes Brave.

Depending on how the whole DRM and adblock thing goes, I might come back to firefox.

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