Rds1983 Posted March 20, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted March 20, 2021 Has anyone tried Duckduckgo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted March 20, 2021 Administrator Share Posted March 20, 2021 50 minutes ago, Rds1983 said: Has anyone tried Duckduckgo? Do they have a browser? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted March 20, 2021 Moderator Share Posted March 20, 2021 They got a browser app, I just downloaded it onto the tablet. Seems fast. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rds1983 Posted March 20, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted March 20, 2021 3 hours ago, limpid said: Do they have a browser? 2 hours ago, blandy said: They got a browser app, I just downloaded it onto the tablet. Seems fast. It was this which caught my eye and made me consider them. No ideas how genuine it is or of any other browsers/search engines are as privacy friendly (asking here was the first research I did!). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 I tend to use DDG now, but it turns out tracking and building profiles it is part of building a great search engine, because DDG is passable at best. It's good enough, most of the time, but harder work to get results anywhere near as relavant as Google's. Once you've used Google services for a while and they know who you are, where you are, and the things you usually click on, you don't really need to be very good at using a search engine anymore. DDG is taking some getting used to. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rds1983 Posted March 20, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted March 20, 2021 1 hour ago, Davkaus said: I tend to use DDG now, but it turns out tracking and building profiles it is part of building a great search engine, because DDG is passable at best. It's good enough, most of the time, but harder work to get results anywhere near as relavant as Google's. Once you've used Google services for a while and they know who you are, where you are, and the things you usually click on, you don't really need to be very good at using a search engine anymore. DDG is taking some getting used to. So what you're saying is use Google to find decent porn and DDG for everything else. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted August 15, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted August 15, 2021 On 17/08/2017 at 14:36, Tegis said: So, with Firefox 57 breaking a truckload of good extensions, is anyone going to switch? I checked mine and all but X-notifier will die. Most dev's I've seen will abandon it because 57 will not allow the deep digging they require. I'm a bit sad frankly. On 17/08/2017 at 20:31, Tegis said: To answer my own question, Waterfox will continue down the XUL/XPCOM trail, so support for addons will continue there. Mine are working at first glance. If the addon-devs will keep up and continue remains to be seen On 23/10/2018 at 14:09, Tegis said: My Waterfox started behaving badly on some sites, different Google services especially ground to a halt. Found (inferior) substitues for my extentions on Firefox. It's bloody fast, I'll give it that. Well, here we are again, Firefox devs doing their outmost to piss me off. For the last 3 years I've been a happy camper and most stuff works. Now they've added a new UI called Proton and it's....well its not nice. A bookmark junkie like myself was introduced to a lot of spacing between the bookmarks rendering it to a scrollfest. Time to try waterfox again I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NurembergVillan Posted September 19, 2021 Moderator Share Posted September 19, 2021 On 19/03/2021 at 19:07, NurembergVillan said: Welcome back to the slowest moving thread on VillaTalk! I've just downloaded and started using Brave, a Chromium-based browser that doesn't do all the nefarious bits Chrome does. First impressions are good. Looks like Chrome, uses Chrome extensions, loads very quickly and uses less memory. Exactly 6 months on, by coincidence, and I'm still using Brave on both my laptop and now my phone. Top quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted September 20, 2021 Administrator Share Posted September 20, 2021 15 hours ago, NurembergVillan said: Exactly 6 months on, by coincidence, and I'm still using Brave on both my laptop and now my phone. Top quality. How much do you pay to content creators out of interest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NurembergVillan Posted September 20, 2021 Moderator Share Posted September 20, 2021 8 hours ago, limpid said: How much do you pay to content creators out of interest? I've had it set to auto-contribute since I first started but have just checked and no auto-contributions have been made. This means I'm currently sitting on $7.42. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted September 20, 2021 Administrator Share Posted September 20, 2021 5 minutes ago, NurembergVillan said: I've had it set to auto-contribute since I first started but have just checked and no auto-contributions have been made. This means I'm currently sitting on $7.42. It's going to kill all the sites that depend on advertising revenue. Shame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NurembergVillan Posted September 21, 2021 Moderator Share Posted September 21, 2021 22 hours ago, limpid said: It's going to kill all the sites that depend on advertising revenue. Shame. Of the sites I frequent, most of them are for shopping. The ones that aren't are either huge (like Twitter and Facebook) or I make voluntary contributions to them (like VT and Futbin). For once I've got a fairly clear conscience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted September 22, 2021 Administrator Share Posted September 22, 2021 12 hours ago, NurembergVillan said: Of the sites I frequent, most of them are for shopping. The ones that aren't are either huge (like Twitter and Facebook) or I make voluntary contributions to them (like VT and Futbin). For once I've got a fairly clear conscience. I assumed so, I suspect that's not true of most users though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NurembergVillan Posted September 22, 2021 Moderator Share Posted September 22, 2021 11 hours ago, limpid said: I assumed so, I suspect that's not true of most users though. Absolutely. Finding the line between privacy and accepting ads as a necessary evil can be tricky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 I’ve just upgraded to iOS 15 and it has Safari with the url box at the bottom. It’s really weird but makes sense on a mobile device. It’ll take some getting used to. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted October 20, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted October 20, 2021 On 15/08/2021 at 12:50, Tegis said: Well, here we are again, Firefox devs doing their outmost to piss me off. For the last 3 years I've been a happy camper and most stuff works. Now they've added a new UI called Proton and it's....well its not nice. A bookmark junkie like myself was introduced to a lot of spacing between the bookmarks rendering it to a scrollfest. As of FF 93 you can undo it and get proper spacing of the bookmarks, wohooooooo. (though considered unsupported) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/compact-mode-workaround-firefox And a pic if the article goes poff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 (edited) On 17/10/2021 at 08:48, Genie said: I’ve just upgraded to iOS 15 and it has Safari with the url box at the bottom. It’s really weird but makes sense on a mobile device. It’ll take some getting used to. There’s an annoying downside to this on VT as the popup notifications which appear at the bottom of the screen are obscured by the url address bar. @limpid Is there anything that can be done about that? Edited October 31, 2021 by Genie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted October 31, 2021 Administrator Share Posted October 31, 2021 3 hours ago, Genie said: There’s an annoying downside to this on VT as the popup notifications which appear at the bottom of the screen are obscured by the url address bar. @limpid Is there anything that can be done about that? it'll get fixed at some point by the developers. Surely even Apple aren't so controlling that they won't let you turn it off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 11 hours ago, limpid said: it'll get fixed at some point by the developers. Surely even Apple aren't so controlling that they won't let you turn it off. It actually looks like someone somewhere has fixed this already. Notifications now appearing above the url bar 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted November 1, 2021 Moderator Share Posted November 1, 2021 11 hours ago, limpid said: Surely even Apple aren't so controlling that they won't let you turn it off Settings: Safari: Tabs: And make your choice from the 2 options. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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