oh god, it’s spreading

you set up your own address with the block lists you want through https://my.nextdns.io

yeah, I keep seeing some graffiti calling people to pay by cash in order to “stop NWO” around here. yuck.

I prefer NextDNS for blocking ads and trackers, you get to choose your own blocklists and white/blacklist domains of your choosing if you run into some problems.

AnySoftKeyboard

Flohmarkt is probably the closest thing https://codeberg.org/grindhold/flohmarkt

he won’t see this, my guy

https://fosstodon.org/@sponsorblock/110803883664782262

it also whitelists ad blockers from working on some, presumably “partnered”, websites.

quick, do your own homework.

you need to change the “Preferred video quality” in the preferences to “DASH (adaptive quality)”, then you’ll be able to pick higher resolution.

I do miss the tab bar, it would be great to have it on the tablet. I can’t comment on how differently the browser behaves now regarding storing loaded pages in memory though, because most of the time I’d have an underpowered phone that would kick out everything out of memory when switching apps anyway.

It was also much smoother

now that’s just rose-tinted glasses speaking. I remember how absolutely abysmal old Firefox’ scrolling was, and how they’ve claimed multiple times that they’ve improved it but it was still horribly sluggish compared to Chromium browsers. I’ve been using Firefox Preview (and then Nightly after enough performance improvements have landed on it) for about a year just to have acceptable experience on mobile.

the only available solutions are wrappers for the mobile website, like SlimSocial.

nope.

I haven’t heard of any research results that have proven that phones or apps are actually listening to people’s conversations, and am only aware of a research that has proven the opposite: https://gizmodo.com/these-academics-spent-the-last-year-testing-whether-you-1826961188

WhatsApp is now in Meta’s hands

it’s been owned by Facebook/Meta for almost a decade, so I’m not sure it warrants using “now”.

no, but you can just save the post for checking it out later.

use the tunnel located in your country?

https://torrentfreak.com/private-internet-access-to-be-acquired-by-kape/

Some have pointed at Kape’s history. The company had previously operated under the name Crossrider and was active in the advertising space. Among other things, it installed toolbars with ‘potentially unwanted software.’ While the company has since switched to a focus on cybersecurity, this past has made some people suspicious.