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Bandwidth isn’t free of charge

Especially the type of bandwidth where you can host felony contempts of business model without getting a life sentence.

and hosting

But it needs a server too?

So should those users switch to a Mac or something else?

I'm starting to see more and more sites want to block them too.


You have to use Discord to login?


https://support.apple.com/en-us/121430

* Navigation (in some countries and regions1) –– choose another app instead of the Apple Maps app to use when opening links for a location

I don't have this option in the US.


Possibly an EU thing then, I’m in France.

However, when I use Google Maps, I do have the behavior described elsewhere in this thread: it constantly bugs me to open the links in chrome (which I’ve never had installed) even though I always click “use default browser”. Googling something in safari also regularly prompts me to install chrome.


IRC/Mastodon


Firefox is still there, but Mozilla is adding AI slop to it too. I’d love to see an extension to disable all that stuff, or ideally get rid of it and make it an extension


Zen browser is pretty minimal in terms of bloat carried from FF

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41303974


How come Zen looks a lot like Arc? https://arc.net/


It's heavily inspired by Arc


Inspired by arc, but still supported.


Just use LibreWolf on desktop and IronFox on Android.

They basically strip out all the anti-privacy, anti-user "features" from Firefox.


+1 for Librewolf, but this is the first time I've heard about Ironfox.

https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox


You can use Librewolf, or the Firefox-based browser from Swedish VPN company Mullvad.


Check your luggage for fries


Yes it makes very little difference if I can see all your public published blog posts on a WordPress site by iterating the number.


Security by obfuscation is theater.


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