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  • One tweak I was talking about is changing the user agent, which is absolutely something Firefox users on here and many platforms talked about doing to rectify changes that broke some functionality.

    I don’t know when did I do that last time, but it was years ago. there are some snowflake services like ms teams that need this, unfortunately, but again, that’s because teams is not developed to web standards, it is developed for chrome.

    Neither of those last 2 statements are false. Use Brave, use Firefox, hell, use Edge if you like it, and it works for you. I know what works for me.

    that’s fair. but above, you were spouting false statements en masse, possibly discouraging people from firefox. despite not risking to have ad blockers by default, I can confidently say that firefox allows more comprehensive filtering without tweaks, and with stability.



  • Tinkering - I remember when the ad blocking addons stopped working due to a Google change.

    once again, and I wont repeat this anymore: this did not affect firefox. only the google controlled chrome.

    Edits and tricks to make Firefox look like Google to the web page,

    I don’t understand what you mean here. there is no need to make firefox look like “google”

    Firefox compatibility- Even users in this post say they have a backup browser when Firefox doesn’t work."

    yes, because certain corporate software’s developers not only fail to test with anything but chrome, but they use non-standard web APIs that only chrome has implemented, and nothing else.

    and before I need to repeat this point of mine too: this is not firefox being not web compatible, but chrome being not web compatible.

    Look, I’m not here evangelizing an imperfect browser.

    that I see, you are instead here to speak false statements with such certainty as an LLM does





  • I think it’s great for those who don’t mind extra layers of tinkering/having control on how the browser uses it’s privacy functions.

    except that you don’t need to tinker. firefox is simply just not doing anything risky, anything that could easily break websites.
    you want ublock? install that 1 addon. that’s not any more tinkering than setting a dark theme, or the language.

    Firefox, unfortunately, isn’t 100% web compatible,

    that’s funny because that’s not how I know. as I know, firefox is more up to spec than chrome, but chrome often has its odd nonstandard behaviours which web devs take as standards simply because that’s the most popular browser, and developing for its quirks is easier than developing for standards and also supporting its quirk at the same time


  • About the addons and stuff breaking, I constantly see posts about this adblock isn’t working because Chrome broke something, this addon is no longer updated, google broke this so that addon doesn’t work.

    well yeah, google has intentionally broken all effective content blockers. that’s the fault of chrome. firefox is fine.

    firefox will never be able to add built in support for adblocking. reasons include that websites would not just happily drop support for firefox, but some would even put in work to block it entirely! a 3rd party fork can do that, but the main thing can’t because of what will follow.

    By the way, you seem focused on Firefox, I’m not attacking Firefox,

    I’m not focused on firefox, I’m against anything chrome. firefox is not good, its the least bad, but in my eyes there’s a large difference between it and chromium. we need more engines.

    I’m calling out every browser that needs addons to create a more secure and private browsing experience.

    I think having this built in is a very dangerous move for a browser that wants to become popular, and does not want to be blocked by sites.

    if all you want is to not need to install anything manually, librewolf has ublock preinstalled.

    but I’m not confident about the content blocking abilities of brave. I get that it hides ads, but is that’s all it does, or does it also block the resources from loading, tracking scripts from operating? because ublock origin is very effective with that, with its large toolset, if the blocklists utilize them



  • Firefox/Chrome - you need all kinds of addons and pihole type setups to do the same thing.

    bullshit

    you need a single addon, ublock origin. enable additional builtin blocklists according to taste.
    you can have additional addons for additional functionality. does brave have libredirect built in? does it block and redirect google AMP sites by default? does it have a feature to only delete cookies regularly for specific sites?

    and let’s not forget the elephant in the room: ublock is not working anymore in chrome! google made it so that you can only use the inferior lite version, that can only load much much fewer filtering rules into the browser.
    I don’t know if brave kept supporting mv2 extensions, but if they do, I guarantee to you that it won’t be that way for long. it has been relatively easy sailing so far because google did not actually remove support, but it will be lots of work when finally google does remove it, and they’ll be needing to patch it in for every new version

    pihole is not used for firefox, and that’s never been its use case. It’s for everything else that uses the internet, but cannot have something like ublock origin: various software, windows itself, android and apps there, smart home and iot garbage.
    Honestly this statement of yours proves to me that you don’t know what you’re talking about.

    All these tools break with updates, whether they are the browsers or addons/tools themselves.

    I have no idea what you are talking about. anyone else?





  • they were selling wd red (pro?) drives with smr tech, which is known to be disastrous for disk arrays because both traditional raid and zfs tends to throw them out. the reason for that is when you are filling it up, especially when you do it quickly, it won’t be able to process your writes after some time, and write operations will take a very long time, because the disk needs to rearrange its data before writing more. but raid solutions just see that the drive is not responding to the write command for a long time, and they think that’s because the drive is bad