It has already been possible to change an #iPhone's default web browser through the "Settings" app since iOS 14.
#Apple has a March 6 legal deadline to introduce app sideloading in the European Union in order to comply with the Digital Markets Act #DMA, and iOS 17.4 will add support for this. #Sideloading will allow Apple users to download apps outside of the App Store, but the change will be limited to customers in the EU.
Now is an opportunity to improve your web experience… and your safety…
• unmigrated accounts on legacy browser—such as #Safari
• pro liaison on a browser approved by your organization
• consuming, online streaming, on the all-purpose browser: #Firefox (then Settings > Privacy)
• social media on a speedy browser—such as #unGoogled (but you must update)
• online banking, health, sysadmin & sensitive stuff on a hardened browser—such as #LibreWolf or #Mullvad's browser
⚠️ Si vous utilisez des webapp #nativefier, ce projet a été abandonné en septembre dernier… Mais il y a une alternative carrément mieux !
:firefox: C’est une extension #Firefox qui se nomme «Progressive Web Apps for Firefox»
Une fois la mise en place, il sera possible de créer des PWA pour votre ordinateur en deux clics.
🧩 Chaque #PWA est un mini Firefox avec ses propres réglages et ses propres extensions (si on souhaite en installer)
Ça me permet d’avoir Grammalecte sur mon Deck du Fediverse 🤩
Petites astuces
🔗 Pour ouvrir les liens dans le navigateur principal sans avoir de popin a chaque clic, dans about:config
passer security.external_protocol_requires_permission à false
:i3wm: On peut masquer la barre d’icônes pour avoir une app minimaliste dans i3, dans about:config
passer firefoxpwa.enableHidingIconBar à true
:librewolf: Ça marche avec #LibreWolf via des liens symboliques :
A must have, if you want to browse the web without ads, trackers, malware and more. There are other browsers you could use, but with #firefox, you can install add-ons to help you mitigate all the tracking and ads. You can even install desktop only add-ons now, and supporting a engine which is not #chromium (controlled by Google) like every other major browser.
There are multiple forks available on the F-droid if you don't want to use plain firefox. This works on desktop too, I recommend #LibreWolf.
My favorite way of blocking ads, you have control over which domain the app can connect. It works like a VPN, but it does not make any outgoing connection. The bad thing is, if you want to use an actual #VPN, you can't have both at the same time and you need to disable your custom DNS.
I recommend to enable in settings > advanced options > block system apps, and individual domains too. When you open the app for the first time, it asks you if you want to block essential request for the apps to work, I recommend to enable this if you don't want apps breaking.
You android vendor may be killing the app, for this reason is necessary to add the app in the list of apps not be optimized by the system. If this issue keeps happening follow the guide from dontkillmyapp.com (advanced)
A DNS works like a translator, computers are good with numbers, but we are not good at memorizing long numbers. Computers communicate with each other using the Internet Protocol (IP), which are pure numbers. For example, your instance #IP is 104.26.8.209 but is easier to us just type lemmy.world.
A DNS is like a table where it has a relationship between keys pointing lemmy.world to 104.26.8.209, so your computer knows where is the computer is trying to connect.
Let's imagine an app is trying to connect to "https://ads-from.company.com", if you are using a DNS which blocks known domain ads it will redirect that request to "0.0.0.0" which is like sending it to a black hole. There are multiple DNS available, which different purposes, for ads, malware, porn, gambling, etc.
Have in mind that these are not full bulletproof protections, one may work better than the other, and can break from time to time. With popular services with ads, like social media, you could use alternative front-ends to their official client or website.
Here is a list of alternative front-ends and an add-on to automatically redirect to them, you have to use it with a browser and you can add as a shortcut to the home screen, better if it works like a #PWAhttps://libredirect.github.io
Pour mon #introduction, ces quelques mots à propos de moi.
Je suis un gars cis, marié depuis 12 ans, tout juste quinqua, pas papa. J'aime la marche, la montagne, les oiseaux, les soirées en extérieur autour d'un feu, les livres de Jack London, J.R.R Tolkien, Alain Damasio ou Sabrina Calvo.
Dans l'informatique depuis 25 ans, libriste convaincu (#linuxmint#librewolf).Je suis présent sur Mastodon en tant que @Beanface42 depuis quelques temps déjà, pas gamer pour deux ronds mais adepte des échecs.
J'espère trouver ici un écrin laissant plus de place à des écrits un poil plus longs (3000 signes, c'est Byzance!) et bardé d'emojis quand je fais une crise d'emojite, :neofox_amogus:
Just learned that ublock can filter search results, allowing you to shitcan pinterest and w3schools from your results, which sounds great. But ublock does not work on any modern Safari. Can either 1blocker or ghostery do this trick?
"This article isn't specifically about #privacy issues only, it's about promises that are being broken, which might be about privacy. It is also about the lack of user freedom, as in the choice to enable or disable features, such as automatic updates, or forced usage of third party services, or software that the user generally is unaware of or don't have a say about."
"Since Homebrew is supported why not Macports too?"
Me: a MacPorts maintainer, "maybe because MacPorts actually builds things from source and Homebrew thinks its OK to just be a wrapper to installing a DMG?"
That's not building jack it.sh from source. I guess it does have a little smarts insomuch as it will determine if it is Intel or Apple Silicon (meanwhile, MacPorts still supports PPC/G4/G5/etc. vintage systems. Because: it actually BUILDS THINGS FROM SOURCE, it's not a precompiled binary distribution platform.).
What a bad joke Homebrew is.
Alas, LibreWolf's build instructions are uhhh, well they don't build on macOS, they cross compile from ???
Which reads: "Archived project! Repository and other project resources are read-only"
I sincerely have no idea how people on macOS build LibreWolf from source, from the project documentation itself. Homebrew, is of zero assistance, because Homebrew: also does not build LibreWolf from source.
Is there a smart way to store browser #bookmarks (internet addresses) that is completely independent of the browser used to access those addresses? The use case is in #nixos when #firefox is broken but I have stored my bookmarks on-line with them to make them available on any device I log into with my firefox account. Can one set up a cloud or home NAS or server bookmarks service that stores the addresses & makes them seamlessly available in #librewolf#brave etc. when logged in to that server?
Ci sono più motivi, alcuni più controversi di altri ma uno che mi sembra ugualmente condivisibile è questo: manteniamo per tutti la possibilità di scegliere.
I've switched from Chrome to Firefox about a decade ago. It's just as fast and intuitive, and container tabs are a game changer. It always catches me off guard when I see its market share is so low.
Another idea to add to the mile long list in my head of ideas, soft fork Firefox and get rid of shit and do sane defaults (I hate having to tweak it every time I start with a clean Firefox). I know Librewolf exists but it breaks things despite promising not to, plus doesn't do all sane defaults.
Maintenant que #Firefox Desktop a corrigé sa fuite Blob, il réussit tous les tests de partitionnement d'état (fuite de données entre sites) de Privacy Tests ! Et ce correctif c’est également propagé à #LibreWolf.
Le moteur #Gecko de Firefox devient ainsi le premier des 3 principaux moteurs (Gecko, WebKit, Chromium) à avoir un bilan de santé impeccable en matière de fuites de données intersites sur ordinateur.
Wer einen guten freien #Browser will, mit wenig Aufwand und sauberer #Privacy-Weste ohne Zwangs-#Google, kann sich mal #LibreWolf ansehen.
Das ist ein #Firefox-Fork, ohne den ganzen Rotz. Besonders für die Leute, die Firefox ohne Bloatware, #Mozilla-Allüren, ausuferndem #Google-Kram usw. wollen, ist das eine interessante Option.
Und im Gegensatz zu den Firefox-"Reparaturhacks" (div. user.js-mods) bekommt man da eine fertige Software ohne Hickhack und Gebastel.
Last week i used Vivaldi exclusively on Windows,Linux and iPhone and this week spent back on Brave and while i like their (Braves) privacy features and believe they offer more in this regard than Vivaldi their crypto focus is a big annoyance of mine.
So today went back to Vivaldi and one major annoyance really is how adress url autocomplete works so the upcoming 6.2 update should adress that and can´t come soon enough.
And no reader view on iPhone yet in Beta. Submitted a FR for it through TF feedback but im assuming it will come at some point. Oh, and sync of search engines does not work but hopefully it is also being worked on.
But Vivaldi on iPhone is shaping up quite nicely
And secondly why is there no merch shop in EU? 😅 I´d be happy to support with a purchase. But shipping and tax to get anything into Sweden from USA is a bit too much for me. Your HQ is next door (country wise) so not having shipping within EU is a bummer.
Just discovered that both Librewolf and Floorp are available through Flathub..
Librewolf I’m familiar with and have no special reason really to install more than try it out again since it’s been a while. I’ve already removed much of the junk from regular Firefox. And the OOTB experience of LW i don’t need, I use Mullvad Browser to cover that.
Floorp will be a new experience. Looks interesting and it gives me a Vivaldi:esque feeling. Always a bit iffy using something as important as a browser from someone new.
YouTube can't stop showing me AI deepfake ads (www.spacebar.news)