• notepass@feddit.de
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      11 months ago

      That one is on apple tho.

      Hoping for more EU intervention on those tools.

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        11 months ago

        Although I agree that Firefox should be freed on iOS, but should chrome?

        A significant amount of browsers on iOS would probably move to blink/chromium the first chance they get(like they do on Android), which only serves to strengthen Google’s monopoly in the space.

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          11 months ago

          The alternative would be … The EU rules that only webkit and Firefox are allowed on iOS…? That’s not happening, nor should it. (Fuck Google still though, I agree with your stance there)

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            11 months ago

            Better than apple doing whatever the fuck they want. Imagine Microsoft would have only allowed IE based browsers on windows. We would still be in the IE days, because why put work into something when you can just force people to use it?

            At least with chrome it is used because it is a pretty competent engine.

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              11 months ago

              I mean if I was dictator I would do this… But some people would hate me for it and they’d have a decent argument to make. It won’t happen… But yeah, fuck googl cannot be said enough

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          11 months ago

          Yes, equal ground should be given to all. Unfortunately, you’re right about Chromium but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t play fair.

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      Genuine question, why stick to ios in that case? I can see a normie who is unaware of these stuff keep using apple since their use case isn’t that complex and apple gives a decent baseline.

      But, ios legitimately sucks because it’s so restrictive and here your personal productivity is going down because of it.

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        I used Android and its variants for 10+ years. With each version you had to do more and more battle to somewhat safeguard any shed of privacy. It was exhausting.

        So I bit the bullet and chose the lesser of two evils. Apple > Google.

        Happy so far.

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      11 months ago

      Don’t worry, you guys will soon get sideloading. Hopefully someone ports it to iOS

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        11 months ago

        Wow, yes it is!

        Just tested Firefox Focus, Vivaldi, Opera, DuckDuckGo, and Safari with Hyperweb (non-optimized adblock configuration admittedly).

        Orion blocked more ads out of the box than the rest. Impressive. Says it supports some Chrome extensions too. (Didn’t test.)

        Interesting there’s no default search engine. There is an extremely gentle prod towards Kagi by listing all other search engines under “Ad-Supported”.

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      11 months ago

      What do you mean? How does Firefox behave on iOS? There is no extension support, or what? (I’ve never used iOS.)

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        11 months ago

        Browsers on iOS just use WebKit. So chromium or quantum aren’t allowed. So all the work Firefox is doing for android isn’t compatible

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        11 months ago

        yeah, i don’t think the app store allows it. or it may be related to the fact that firefox has to use the safari engine on ios

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          Whaaaat? Damn.

          Nowadays I tend to feel fed up with Android and switching to iOS crosses my mind sometimes, but the more I hear about iOS, the more I appreciate Android.

          Seriously, WTF?! A web browser is a pretty essential tool, I can’t believe a real Firefox version cannot be installed.

          I guess, my long term solution will be some Android-fork.