I don't want to use "X", I want to read updates from orgs and people who, unfortunately, don't post them elsewhere.

FYI web extension "Old Reddit Redirect" was just updated. Restores anonymous access and old reddit. I looked under the hood and it's just setting a "redesign_optout" cookie, so I'd say our days are numbered regardless.

My guess for privacy and anti-tracking is that trying to resist fingerprinting is, ironically, very fingerprintable.

Uh oh. Should I grab an iPhone now before those prices are raised?

Don't get your hopes up. The industry is well underway in migrating everything possible away from native apps to Electron.

People for some reason forget that for most election apps you can run it in a browser tab and avoid almost all of the overhead.

You can run slack, teams, outlook, Spotify, figma, and just about everything else in a browser tab; you get Linux support for free and you are only running one browser instance.

I shift a 1 GB electron app to a 900 MB browser tab (i don't know what it actually is, but the number of Tabs I have taking up 1 GB memory is shocking these days).

Trying to vibe as many of my own CLI toolings as possible....

Doing that helps some, but it doesn’t help the fact that web engines and the balls of mud they’re so often tasked with running are quite heavy even with just one browser instance.

Doesn't matter that's it's a myth, it's salient and has become a layperson talking point. This is an official post on nvidia.com that can be quoted: "The NVIDIA DSX reference design for AI factories has zero water consumption"

>Other Chromium-based browsers like Opera and Microsoft Edge could soon follow suit too. Although it is not specified, Edge began disabling uBlock Origin back in February

Cmon, it's in the article.

I read the article.

"could soon" is meaningless

Yes they disabled the extension at one point if you had it installed, but it was 2 clicks to re-enable it. The edge extension store shows 14m active edge ublock origin users.

I expected some kind of fallout from Google nuking uBo. I've heard pretty much nothing so far.

I'm only one person but that was the straw that broke the camels back for me. I no longer use any google software/services other than gmail and even that is just a spam folder at this point.

That change came after Google's changes around MV3 were released. I actively campaign against using Google anything at my job as well.

Yep the MV3 thing was my ticket out also here. And some benchmarks about firefox better memory usage. All their parlance about they "protecting us" is patronizing.

They're working on it.

Thinking that Gmail thinks anything about you is giving them too much credit. The only reason for any of this is the desperation to juice their AI usage metrics.