Slimy lobbyist: Sure I’ll hold your robe and… whoops how did that big wad of cash get in there?

Firefox is alright, it served me adequately after Opera got sold off, but Vivaldi is so much better.

Even though it’s based on a fork of chromium Vivaldi has an extremely strong focus on innovation as well as privacy, they’ve commited themselves to working around Mv3 for instance and their in-built ad-blocker is absolutely top notch but you can also install uBlock Origin to work with it in tandem on their desktop browser if you want.

And even though it’s extremely feature rich, with speed dial, ad-blocker, password vault and side bar being some of their out of the box features all their power user functions are opt in through the settings where you can choose to stack your tabs vertically or enable mouse gestures (couldn’t live without these) and a whole bunch more, it really offers everything you could think of and probably a whole bunch more.

Vivaldi for instance. If you’re looking for innovation and an iron clad focus on privacy in a heavily modified chromium fork, you really can’t get any better.

Bonus points if you used Opera back in the day as it’s effectivley Opera 2.0.

Vivaldi is what you’re looking for, not sure about their ios support but I know it syncs between android and windows flawlessly and it has it’s own built in ad-blocker that you can also install ublock on top of on the desktop but I’ve never once gotten a popup on mobile just using their ad-blocker, and it blocks a bunch of ads too.

It is based on a chromium fork but they have an extremely strong focus on both privacy and innovation but it isn’t one of those browsers that have everything switched on from the get go, they have an amazing set of core features like speed dial (which I can’t live without), ad-blocker and a really handy sidebar that contains all the stuff that’s usually mooshed into the top bar, however their advanced settings are all opt in so make sure you have a good dig through the settings and turn stuff like mouse gestures on.

Except for Vivaldi, ever since the Mv3 news came out they’ve always said they’re going to go around it. Here for instance one of the developers talks about there intentions going forward.

Vivaldi too is technically Opera 2.0 as it was created by Jon von Tetzchner who was the co-creator of Opera, and Opera (until the chinese consortium sale that is, after von Tetzchner had left the company) was always synonymous with privacy and innovation.

So even though Vivaldi is a fork of Chromium I believe from everything I’ve read about the guy, Jon von Tetzchner is 100% commited to his principals. Like one of my favourite von Tetzchner stories is from when Opera 8 came out and he said if it got to a million downloads over a weekend he’d swim the Atlantic, so when Opera 8 smashed the million downloads instead of trying to welch out on the bet he followed through, didn’t make it very far but he still did it and I feel that says a lot about his character. Here’s the best article I could find about it as it was back in '05 and Opera seems to have nuked it’s old news articles.

The low cost of the subscription model can’t pay for all the content that is normally made by that industry

This is where economies of scale comes in though, especially in tech where you’re offering an ephemeral product. Even at say US$10 if you get a million subscribers (not too hard to do, netflix had many times that number at their peak) that’s US$10 million dollars. Which you would think should be more than enough to punch out a bunch of relatively low budget productions, pay your neccessaries and still leave you a good chunk of change I feel.

Otters are fucking savage too, they will otterly mess you up.

I like using imperial and metric interchangeably on small measurements, like saying an inch is way easier than 2.54 centimeters, same with foot and 30cm, and most people get what you’re saying especially when I was doing construction/engineering. Beyond that though it does get a bit silly and very arbitrary.

Just seems like companies are making short sighted choices for cost reduction over thinking about the potential long-term repercussions for putting their intellectual property and untimely their fates, in the hands of third party.

Welcome to late stage capitalism baby! It’ll only be a short stay though because these assholes are going to implode the planet looking for their next quick buck.

Maybe take out a new domain name? New-pipe.net perhaps.

I’m pretty sure it alreacy has it, check the settings. (Just checked it’s in Settings->[Username] Settings->Show Read Posts)

Mark read on scroll though is the setting I’m waiting for but will probably have to wait for Boost that will no doubt have all those kind of more advanced settings like it did for reddit.

I’m thinking I may have to. I’ve been watching some videos with the I Am Legion mod, which really improved the longevity of the first one for me, and it looks amazing.

It should be, I fully agree, unfortunately we live in a digital panopticon.

Eeeeh, I could but Techland has long been one of my favorite little studios so pirating one of their games just doesn’t feel right to me.

Also piratebay hasn’t been relevant in years and is most likely chock full of all kinds of nasty malware now, try 1337x instead. They’re probably the best of the lot now rarbg is no longer with us.

Dying Light, absolutely fantastic pakour zombie smasher with one of the best cities in gaming. Bought it originally (on a disc) many years ago and played it so much the disc died and I was inconsolable until Epic gave away the ultimate edition and I was finally able to play The Following DLC.

Now I go and look at Dying Light 2 on Steam and wish my stupid country wasn’t so damn expensive, even on sale at 50% off it still costs almost as much as a brand new AAA game in the states. Regional pricing my ass, we always get stung so hard for tech down here.

I was thinking the same thing, then i remembered I’m just useless…

You would think that, but the big banks made out like absolutely crazy from the derivatives and then got to seize a whole swathe of land they then sold on for even more money or kept for themselves and used to artificially inflate the rental markets while at the same time curb stomping their competition thus giving them a much larger piece of the pie after everything shook out.

The real own goal here is the poor saps who thought they were getting a cheap mortgage until the interest rates started going up and up.

Before jumping ship from Chrome completely try Vivaldi, it’s built on the Chrome engine (so you can continue using your extensions and what nots) but it’s made by one of the guys that created Opera but jumped ship before it got sold off to big money.

So like old Opera there’s a huge emphasis on not only pushing what a browser can do (Opera pioneered speed dial for instance and tabs too iirc) but privacy and security as well.

I’ve been using it for a while now with Firefox really not being able to scratch the itch left by Opera and I’m really impressed with just how good it is for being built on Chrome.

I couldn’t agree more, I have no problem with charging for API use they paid to develop it so charging for it is more than fair enough, but setting the price at literally millions of dollars (for the likes of Apollo) is absolutely absurd and then giving the affected parties 30 days to figure out what the hell they were going to do is so dishonest and underhanded. And then spez’s completely out of touch comments basically calling us all idiots that are just going to fall into line because the lord says so was the smega sprinkles on the whole shit sundae.

I reckon there are two factors at work here, the profit imperative and enshitification. The profit imperative relates to how corporations have to make exponential profits every single year (and as we all should know you can’t have exponential growth in a finite system.)

And enshitification is a result of the profit imperative, with all the corporations trying vainly to keep the profits rolling in they have to cut quality, be it through replacing ingrediants with inferior ones or pumping in the sugar so it’s harder to taste the wood chips, killing third party alternatives for viewing your site to keep all the ad revenue to yourself, putting out unfinished products and charging top dollar while treating your users as unpaid testers.

Or any other of the million shitty practices corporations can think up to keep the economic perpetual motion going, it’s all going the same way in the end though because you can’t get blood from a stone and as a great man once said “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”