loki
Firefox being irrelevant and Safari coming to the rescue against Chrome is a pipedream. Apart from their upper management issues and community unfriendly UI department, Firefox is doing just fine imo.
Firefox’s stats look bad because they block trackers by default (enhanced protection) and most news sites and tech “journalist” take a user stats off of a tracking company (statcounter), which depends on script placed on websites to “track” users which is blocked.
Firefox users are also more likely to use superior adblocks and privacy extensions which doesn’t do its usage metrics any justice. There are also popular forks which come with these things inbuilt which are still Firefox.
Apple should start allowing alternative browser engine on iOS and also start blocking trackers by default too, since it so overwhelmingly likes to market itself as “privacy friendly” and see how soon its usage stats drop.
This is coming from a Firefox user who remebers the founding of Mozilla and the company name being a combination of Mosaic and Godzilla.
This looks neat. It’ll be sweat it it could get
- tap gestures (double tap -> launch app)
- Use app shortcuts as icons in pins (My apps shortcut instead of play store app)
- lock desktop mode
Will use this instead of Neo for a few days to see how it goes.
eyewear-free?
what does this mean?
Ad about an ad.
love the name.
These articles are very easy to write and you can see how emotional people get. You don’t need proof and it always works.
Everytime there’s an article about what “China/Russia/India/North Korea/or Whatever Says”, social media goes:
haha, so fake!
fake news
imagine believing this
propaganda bs
where’s the proof?
we only believe in hard facts
no credibility
chinese/russian bots brigading lmao
astroturfing
And then whenever there is “US Says”
so true
I know someone who knows someone who was doing this
I had a gut feeling about this
The boogeyman is real
They’re stealing our tech
They’re coming for us
We have to renounce them
They’re destroying our economy
Enemy #1
They’re ruining our western values
US is numba 1
NO FUCKING PROOF REQUIRED!! Anyone questions?
why would they release the evidence, it’s classified
I mean fuck all authoritarian regimes, but it’s funny to see how social media (especially in US) reacts to these articles and riles them up. Also great for election season.
Standard hypocrisy from propaganda rotted brains at work
If you use on android apps from the playstore, most apps are built to relay their notifications through Google’s Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM), so they don’t have to have a background notification listeners running 24/7. It also means less overhead from multiple notification listeners from every app having its own. So yes, if an app is built on top of google play services, it requires “google play services”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebase_Cloud_Messaging
If an app says it doesn’t rely on google play services, it uses an alternative notification listener or websockets, which might not be as effective, because Google is inbuilt and won’t kill its own apps, the scale of its infrastructure, and its habit of listening on people’s activity.
Add in Androids habit of killing background services, and you don’t always get your notification when the app isn’t in the foreground.
Even Signal from Playstore uses Google Play Services for notifications.
https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/g217a6/what_can_google_glean_from_signal_using_fcmgcm/
