I tried it and it was not worthy. The thing they showed the most was tiktok, that has a decent web app and looks much better on a big display. The same applies for basically all of them.
Important note: companies can’t just build fake app stores for their own apps, but must allow other developers to publish apps on them. So unless someone builds a place for sketchy apps and they all pass the notarization process and don’t break any agreement, it’s highly unlikely
It is Apple’s fault, but the EU’s DMA will force Apple to allow alternative engines. However this raises many doubts:
- Will Apple just allow every browser in the App Store or they’ll manage to use side load (which they’ll also be forced to allow) as the only way to comply? (Probably not legal but i expect them to try, would vastly limit an App’s user base as demonstrated by Android).
- In the best scenario, wich is Apple letting Mozilla put the full Firefox in the App Store, would they be interested at all to port Gecko to iOS?
Actually there are many ways to set parental controls on device and lock them with a passcode or you could use third party solution that use the Screen Time API but are compatible with Android.
Being an iPhone + Watch + AirPods user I can say the exact opposite. The Watch is the perfect iPhone companion but it can’t replace it. Its screen is so small it makes me want to complete interactions as quick as possible. I love leaving the iPhone at home when I go for a walk and still listening music and podcasts, but it’s something that requires minimal interactions. Receiving notifications is great, but replying? terrible.
Imho Apple should be a bit braver when designing the Watch UI. Put an always accessible now playing widget, let apps create more complex widget etc. (but still, I am thinking about glanceable informations or single tap actions).
And I didn’t mention the fact the iPhone has cameras and it’s not physically attached to you.
I had to buy a new iPhone because I damaged my 3.5 yrs old XS so bad repairing was not a reasonable option. However I would have just changed the battery and kept it for way longer if it still worked.
There are proofs that in the past Apple slowed down devices, but I don’t think it’s a thing anymore (at least if you know about the toggle in the battery settings and are willing to change the battery after 3/4 years).
Every modern phone can last 5+ years of you can resist the pressure of marketing (my dad is still using a midrange 2017 Samsung and only started thinking to change it now).
You can still use the official IDCAC list or another one in uBlock. It’s not as good in big companies’ websites (like google) that show their own interactive multi page banners bc the filters can’t simulate clicks, but it’s still good enough for an uncluttered navigation in most websites.
Not necessarily. I use an other extension to delete cookies and data from every website and uBlock Origin blocks connections to trackers. So all I used to get with this extension was a way less cluttered user experience. I will now replace it with a simpler uBlock list.
I guess google still has an idea of who you are. Since you don’t use the recommendations, you should try an alternative front end, so you don’t get tracked at all.
I use an extension on firefox that allows me to whitelist channels from the ad blocking (u need to use uBlock origin). However, it puts a limit on the amount of ads and i support directly my favourite creators on other platforms.
I’m in Italy and as long as you have the phone number, you can just use whatsapp. It’s the de-facto standard and everyone has it. I really don’t understand the problem.
Imho if RCS ever takes over SMS it will eventually get to a point where it’s equally obsolete.
RCS requires carriers to support the standard and manufacturers to build features upon it that its not guaranteed will work as expected on all the devices.
As much as i hate private companies having monopolies over online communication on entire countries, at least their services are reliable, accessible from basically every device and constantly improving.
I bet a different standard will be created instead. RCS puts carriers back into the equation, while major services (or as the EU calls them “gatekeepers”) just want to have as much control as possible.
I don’t get why in the US people still use SMS.
Third party apps run basically everywhere and they don’t depend on carriers and manufacturers supporting things.
uBlock origin on firefox is just fine for me. Have you ever tried to change some settings? because there’s a lot of them and it’s easy to mess up things. just try uninstall and reinstall.
Safari’s content blocking APIs are far from powerful. Content blockers provide the rules and safari blocks what it is told to.
So you’re stuck with the (limited) features the browser exposes. Apple put limitations on what extensions can do, so uBlock would struggle on Mac and simply not work on mobile.
Using its own engine (exactly the opposite of the Apple way), uBlock can handle the most complex websites and offer more features and customisation.
Exactly. I’ve used ddg for more than a year and startpage for some months and it’s great to see a search engine that doesn’t suck, tries to be independent and has no problems understanding that i’m not from the us
Google collects so many data it is difficult to beat, but i was impressed seeing that Brave Search is just miles better than ddg and has way less problems understanding which language i’m using and providing localised results (i’m not from the us)
I did the same and i’ve had the override search engine option on for two months now to use it.
Using Google is a no for me (except really borderline situations), startpage is good but still based on google, ddg sucks and is totally unable to provide good results for my area. I can say Brave is already better than everything else except google and the search engines that use it. The “discussions” widget that shows reddit previews makes it sometimes better than everything else and this google feature will hopefully make it the best. I don’t really like the crypto stuff and many of the ideas that guide the making of the brave browser (so i don’t use it), however they have been shipping products that are simply very good lately.
Those big companies can simply rely on the amount of informations they get from their own services.
Google has a service for almost everything, Amazon knows exactly what you want to buy and like google is extending to all the aspects of your life with digital services and Facebook as well has apps people spend enough time in to obtain informations about their interests. So their ad networks could work without cookies. But they also rely on fingerprinting that’s done through the ads themselves and the analytics tools almost every website has.
MacOS 12.3 just changed that and the difference is incredible. All the Apple music screens load much faster, especially the search one that previously was not just slow but also broken
While what you said is true, iOS 12 still received some security fixes, so the total support for the iphone 5s is 9 years and 8 for the 6. Critical bugs shouldn’t be that big of a threat (considering that even up to date phones are colanders.
I 1000% percent disagree.
Firstly as a user I see no point in this browser at all. They should have partnered with Mozilla to stick to their commitment to privacy and to their effort to support open source projects.
Imho they don’t aim to customize the UX that much.
They’ll build something like their mobile browser and push for their search engine, mail protection and whatever they’ll try to sell in the future. And we should just not trust them. So many people use browsers as they are (which I find impossible nowadays with all the ads and popups) and reading that DuckDuckGo magically protected them will be enough for them.
Instead of Electron they could have just used Chromium but that is ethically terrible and an un useful effort for them (given what I said about their intentions).
And I think you should stick to Firefox (just as I’ll do).
It will be built on top of the system web view, so chromium on Windows and WebKit on macOS.
It will be minimal and lack extensions, and I can’t imagine living without extensions. And if you don’t use any I recommend you to try some.
I see no point in this browser, as it will basically be a Firefox Focus for desktop.
The reason Mozilla is implementing Manifest V3 is to maintain cross-browser support for extensions. There are many extensions that will work just fine and not having the new APIs on Firefox would mean just loosing them.
And I’m not saying this as a Google supporter, I hate them, but we have to be objective.
Also, Firefox devs are pushing forward security with better and better site isolation, cookie isolation and now with RLBox. And if they implement more stupid features like themes, it’s totally fine. People complain if Firefox has a low market share and then complain again when they implement user-friendly design things.