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Huh, I didn’t realize. I’ve had it installed forever, I guess I didn’t realize. Oh well, I just switched back to Brave and I don’t even have uBO installed anymore and it’s been fine.

Do your think he knows? I think folks like him just get podcast invites and do minimal research on the host.

This seems rather alarmist, especially the youtube part. I’ve watched a few full length episodes and don’t have any of that shit in my recommended videos.

Shorts are the only thing that really annoyed me, I don’t mind recommendations or comments, and I just keep a tab open on my subs page all the time anyway.

I haven’t had the app installed since I got my phone. I don’t believe it was installed by default, or if it was I removed it immediately.

Maybe? shrug I didn’t look too hard, I stumbled across someone talking about dark reader and was like ‘I must have this in my life.’

I haven’t deleted it because there are a couple of people I might theoretically need to get in touch with at some point that I don’t have contact with otherwise.

IIRC Facebook was not installed by default on my Samsung A32, and there is no trace of it now so I don’t think I removed it. shrug Otherwise, use privacy features in your browser/on your device

Or you could just not use their toxic bullshit. I haven’t logged into Facebook in like 6 years.

Interesting, I’ll definitely have to give it a shot. I really want to like Firefox, but it just has lots of little issues that never quite get resolved. That per-page zoom thing has been all over the forums and bug trackers for years and still doesn’t have a fix.

• ublock origin, first last and if necessary only extension you really need
• dark reader
• youtube shorts block - converts shorts links into regular video player with actual fucking seek/volume controls
• youtube sponsor block - I pay for my bandwidth, I decide what gets downloaded.
• privacy badger

Interesting, I never even knew Brave had that stuff built in, i switched from Chrome years ago and installing ublock origin had already just become the default thing I do to any browser first thing by that point. Though I will note this line in the link you provided:

For as long as we’re able (and assuming the cooperation of the extension authors), Brave will continue to support some privacy-relevant MV2 extensions—specifically AdGuard, NoScript, uBlock Origin, and uMatrix

Which suggests that they’re planning to eventually be forced into Manifest V3 (or something similar) to gimp those extensions, but I s’pose I’ll give it a shot without ublock and see how it goes. Firefox has given me trouble in a bunch of ways (not remembering per-page zoom, hotkeys changing on me unexpectedly, issues with reddit/lemmy on long posts, etc) and I wouldn’t mind switching back.

I liked Brave well enough, but I switched to Firefox when I learned Google was going to force Manifest V3’s adblock-gimp into Chromium. I figure it’s a matter of time before Chromium-based browsers like Brave are forced to either adopt it or fork Chromium and maintain it themselves, and I know which of those two seems more likely to me.

The catch is now you have games in their ecosystem and are more likely to spend more time and money there.

For sure! I thought I was just going to be boned because of the GPU issues I had because ‘lol buy a different GPU’ just isn’t practical and the end of service life for Win10 is coming up in a few months and I was really not looking forward to moving to 11.

Honestly I’m not even ‘enjoying’ the OS, it’s gotten to the point for me where it’s just the way things are now, it’s kind of become just a fact about my world. There are a couple things I miss from Windows (reliable Phone Link being the primary one, I hate typing on my phone keyboard and KDE Connect SMS/Pushbullet/etc don’t always get SMS updates and such, but also something like Stardock Fences), but mostly it just works.

I used Pop for a bit and didn’t like its DE either, and also it hated my GPU (a bog-standard RTX3060) for some reason. Got frustrated, tried a bunch of Ubuntu-derived distros that either wouldn’t install or installed and wouldn’t boot (also GPU/driver-related issues, apparently), got fed up, and decided to try Nobara about a month ago on the basis of it being a gaming-focused distro with frequent updates, and I have been quite pleasantly surprised. 95% of everything I’ve tried just works, the rest requires a bit of fiddling but isn’t too bad (had to install battle.net via Steam rather than Lutris for whatever reason, f.ex), I even got my novel-writing software running pretty well under wine. At this point I haven’t booted back into windows in weeks and I think I’m just about ready to start tearing down my windows install and converting my other drives away from NTFS.

Fair enough.

This seems like asking someone to do your google homework for you. :P Just google that shit and get the specs yourself.

Do they need to? I don’t think they do. They exist to make money so I get that they want to, and they’re pretty good at it, but they could try not exploiting people for profit. But the idea that ‘it exists therefore anything is justified in order to make a profit’ is absurd.

You’re right, I missed it the first time, my bad.

I take “the first 90 days” to mean the first 90 days they’re there working

That does seem to be one reading of the information available, yes. My point, though, was that it’s ambiguous, so it can also be read as they work for free for the first 90 days of the program, then get offered a job where they work for $10/hr for 90 days, then get raised to a decent wage.

Re:bad faith/disparaging - yeah maybe. I’ve been through/around several recovery programs myself, and they always give me a scummy vibe so maybe I’m just looking for nits to pick. But 90 days free labor (if that’s what’s going on) is a lot less obviously-scummy than the year I initially thought it was, so. Though again with no mention of counselors or anything this still doesn’t seem like much of a ‘recovery program’, but rather more of a ‘get away from the triggers that caused you to drink’ program. shrug Either way it does seem to be giving people a second chance and if there’s nothing scummy going on then that’s unambiguously a good thing.