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- So which 3rd party app dev is going to be the first one to reverse-engineer the private mobile app API, create an unofficial 3rd party app, and then use their existing frontend to package together a premium service?
- Is there a convenient app for viewing Instagram without an account?
- What are some of your favorite apps that are not on the play store?
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Barinsta app
Read here.
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Ways to visit social media sites without logging in
as others have suggested, you can use libreddit and teddit for reddit. linkedin has no alternatives at the moment. and i don't think there will be. same for facebook. also, facebook is very hostile to the idea of alternative fronrends. they have sent cease and desist letter to the developer of barinsta(an Instagram client).
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Barinsta login: challenge_required
Barinsta is no longer maintained and I'm not aware if any open source alternatives similar to Barinsta.
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Privacy Redirect: Redirects browser requests to privacy-friendly alternatives
Add to that list:
- Sending a cease and desist to the student who developed a FOSS Instagram app: https://github.com/austinhuang0131/austinhuang0131/issues/2
- How to fuck one year of work in 10 minutes
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Barinsta has been taken down by Facebook
Cease and Desist
- Cease and Desist from Facebook to Barinsta, a FOSS Instagram Client
uBlock
- Apr 24th is JavaScript Naked Day – Browse the web without JavaScript
- Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads
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Some notes on Firefox's media autoplay settings in practice as of Firefox 124
Check out uBlock Origin's per site switches [1]
[1]: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-...
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Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive
If ads, in particular on YouTube, are the problem, anything Chromium-based is probably only going to get worse and worse (see [1] and [2]). So that basically leaves you with Firefox and Safari.
I work for Mozilla (speaking for myself, of course), so I'll leave you to guess which I'd recommend :P
[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
[2] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-oppos...
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X.org Server Clears Out Remnants for Supporting Old Compilers
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
Or if on mobile, it is well worth it to look up adblock options for the browser you use.
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Mozilla thinks Apple, Google, Microsoft should play fair
What are the compelling advantages of Chrome nowadays?
Chrome is working to limit the capabilities of ad blockers:
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2023/11/chrome-pushes...
Whereas a compelling advantage of Firefox is that uBlock Origin works best in Firefox:
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
Advertising networks have often been vectors for malware. Using an ad blocker is an important security measure. Even the FBI recommends ad blockers:
https://www.malwarebytes.com/malvertising
https://theconversation.com/spyware-can-infect-your-phone-or...
https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221?=8324278624
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Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default
> It allows for 30,000 dynamic rules
That is not what we mean by dynamic filters. From https://developer.chrome.com/blog/improvements-to-content-fi...
> However, to support more frequent updates and user-defined rules, extensions can add rules dynamically too, without their developers having to upload a new version of the extension to the Chrome Web Store.
What Chrome is talking about is the ability to specify rules at runtime. What critics of Manifest V3 are talking about is not the ability to dynamically add rules (although that can be an issue), it is the ability to add dynamic rules -- ie rules that analyze and rewrite requests in the style of the blockingWebRequest permission.
It's a little deceptive to claim that the concerns here are outdated and to point to vague terminology that sounds like it's correcting the problem, but on actual inspection turns out to be entirely separate functionality from what the GP was talking about.
> Giving this ability to extensions can slow down the browser for the user. These ads can still be blocked through other means.
This is the debate; most of the adblocking community disagrees with this assertion. uBO maintains a list of some common features that are already not possible to support in Chrome ( https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b... ) and has written about features that are not able to be supported via Chrome's current V3 API ( https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as... ). Of particular note are filtering for large media elements (I use this a lot on mobile Firefox, it's great for reducing page size), and top-level filtering of domains/fonts.
- uBlock Origin – 1.55.0
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In 2024, please switch to Firefox
> "Its happened before"
> That's not an argument
It's a subheading to "2. Browser engine monopoly". The subsection's purpose is describing how bad things were during the IE monopoly to reinforce that it's something to be avoided.
> in fact you could counter-argue that IE left a lot of technical debt
That would be agreeing with the article, unless I understand what you mean.
> On top of that, the internet was very different back then.
In a way that now makes it harder for truly new competing engines to pop up due to increased complexity of the web.
> I'm still not convinced, why would I change my browser?
The points made in the article are:
* Increased privacy, opposed to willingly giving your data to an ad-tech company
* Helps avoid a browser engine monopoly which would effectively let Google dictate web standards
* It’s fast and has a nice user interface
Onto which I'd add:
* Content blockers work best on Firefox (https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...), doubly so when Manifest V3 rolls out
* Allows more customization of interface and home page
* UX improvements, like the clutter-free reader mode, aren't vetoed to protect search revenue as with Chrome (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37675467)
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Ask HN: Is Firefox team too small to do serious security tests?
Advertising networks are vectors for malware:
https://www.cisecurity.org/insights/blog/malvertising
https://www.malwarebytes.com/malvertising
https://theconversation.com/spyware-can-infect-your-phone-or...
So if you're concerned about security then you want the browser with the best ad blocker.
uBlock Origin works best in Firefox:
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
What are some alternatives?
privacy-redirect - A simple web extension that redirects Twitter, YouTube, Instagram & Google Maps requests to privacy friendly alternatives.
VideoAdBlockForTwitch - Blocks Ads on Twitch.tv.
libreddit - Private front-end for Reddit
Spotify-Ad-Blocker - EZBlocker - A Spotify Ad Blocker for Windows
iceraven-browser - Iceraven Browser
bypass-paywalls-chrome - Bypass Paywalls web browser extension for Chrome and Firefox.
duckduckgo-privacy-extension - DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials browser extension for Firefox, Chrome.
ClearUrls
AdNauseam - AdNauseam: Fight back against advertising surveillance
uMatrix - uMatrix: Point and click matrix to filter net requests according to source, destination and type
brave-core - Core engine for the Brave browser for mobile and desktop. For issues https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues
bromite - Bromite is a Chromium fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser!