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[–] myxi@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I was ignoring the 92% percent part of it in my original comment when I said "not even open-source" because I think pretty much all privacy advocates know that it is built on top of Chromium.

I am not sure what your true source is, but mine is this from where I am quoting:

We don’t publish it under an open-source license and only release obfuscated versions of it. The obfuscation is partly there to improve performance, but it also very much is the first line of defense, to prevent other parties from taking the code and building an equivalent browser (essentially a fork) too easily.

While they release the source code of the UI elements, it seems that they only release a obfuscated version of the UI source code, which I am afraid won't go well If I want to easily "audit and go through". Though it's possible they have now changed their minds and my news sources are outdated.

[–] myxi@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago

I use Vivaldi + AdNauseam (though they have a built-in adblocker which I have disabled.)

[–] myxi@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago

Try Kiwi Browser and Yandex Browser.

[–] myxi@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Websites become less profitable

That's why I use AdNauseam (a fork of uBlock but with a nicer philosophy).

[–] myxi@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It isn't even open source. I don't trust it, but it's my primary browser because I love its customization stuff and because it's Chromium (I have a potato laptop and Gecko is known for higher memory usage).

[–] myxi@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Kiwi Browser and Yandex Browser lets you use any Chromium extension, and Firefox Nightly, with some hacks, lets you use any Firefox addon available on the webstore.

Firefox's stable version also comes with uBlock.

[–] myxi@feddit.nl -2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Flatpaks are slow and take more resources. It is only useful for the riches who can afford 16 GB+ RAM and TBs of storage.

[–] myxi@feddit.nl 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Flatpak just sucks for us with potato level hardware. It is much slower and crashes. Some things just didn't work until I got mine built from source using AUR scripts. I had checked the memory usage, the flatpak version of EasyEffects took much more memory than the native one. I don't want Linux to become Windows with this Flatpak nonsense that wastes my desktop's resources more than it should. Whenever I played music with EasyEffects flatpak, my CPU usage went up literally 80%, but with the native build, EE now does not go beyond like 5% CPU.

Any package that will force me to use Flatpak, I simply won't use it at all, or find some workaround. I will not donate a single penny to the project itself, but I will to the one who found the workaround.

[–] myxi@feddit.nl 0 points 2 years ago

Maybe because it was free and you were hungry; who wouldn't love a burrito for free?

[–] myxi@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Helix text editor.

[–] myxi@feddit.nl -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hello, I want you to know that Linux Mint has some issues:

  • Their site was hacked twice and a malware-infected ISO was being distributed.
  • They have a mixture of repositories where they get certain crucial things from Ubuntu's repositories; this can cause trouble.

That being said, you may want to give Ubuntu officials a try instead.

[–] myxi@feddit.nl 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Full-body aches due to shivering from a high body temperature. However there can be other serious reasons, for those you should consult a doctor.

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