Ghoelian

Protip: you can also block a lot of those by enabling some “annoyances” blocklists in uBlocks settings.

And while you’re there, take a look at all the other blocklists they don’t enable by default. You might find something useful to you.

I’m happy if I get a bonus for free ice cream, but I’m not really disappointed that those things don’t happen everyday.

Yeah okay but I’m gonna wager a wild guess here and say you’re most likely not a dog

The person you replied to is correct, and your link confirms it:

An extension with broad permissions can access all tabs and browsing data

The extension does not just have this access, it has to request it from the user first.

Of course, an extension can request access to all browsing data, but Firefox will tell you about that before you install it. And better still, the extension this post is about, doesn’t even request this:

Yeah I’m pretty sure Firefox won’t ask for or use your location, unless a website wants it for some reason (which is almost never a good one).

Wait so you turned copilot off, yet it was still reading everything you type?

I thought Palantir made scandinavian power metal

Do you have a source for that? I can’t seem to find anything on their website, though judging by the past few release notes you’re absolutely right.

Edit: found this video. Kinda feel like this should be a big red banner on the front page though.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=E9yZ0JusME4

OK I think I see what you’re saying now:

If everyone leaves Firefox because of this, Google would probably stop paying them to be the default search engine.

I don’t see that as the biggest issue though. Once people are leaving, my guess is they’re just going to stop maintaining firefox regardless of how much money they get from Google. Cause why maintain a browser literally no one uses, instead of figuratively.

No, using Google makes Google money. That’s why they pay mozilla to be the default.

Zen had its latest release 5 days ago, and arc 4 days ago, so I have no idea what they’re talking about.

Technically Firefox is operated by the Mozilla Foundation, and thunderbird by its subsidiary, MZLA Technologies Corp. This subsidiary also took over K-9 a while ago iirc.

French evolves: it has a committee to weed out stupid.

How are you going to stop people from using these “stupid” evolutions? That’s just not how language works. If this is really something France does, I’d imagine what they’d end up with is dictionaries that don’t at all match how people really speak.

Forgot one thing: that top bar is also entirely configurable. It’s called waybar, and you can find the docs here: https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Configuration

Pretty much everything in Sway is configurable, as most of it is just written in a config file. You can use different application launchers (fuzzel, for example), you can add a notification centre like swaync, or just customise waybar with whatever modules you want. I think you can even switch out waybar for something else, but I haven’t tried that myself.

Here’s some useful defaults for Sway: (the default mod key is meta, aka the windows key)

• Mod+d: open application menu
• Mod+arrows: switch active windows
• Mod+shift+arrows: move window (rearrange within a screen, or move between screens)
• Mod+1-9: switches workspaces
• Mod+shift+1-9: moves active window to that workspace (does not activate that workspace)
• Mod+space: make the window a regular floating window. Using Mod+arrows on a window that’s floating will move that window (I think) 10 pixels at a time. You can also drag this window around with the mouse.

Lay-out:

• Mod+w: tabbed lay-out
• Mod+e: split lay-out (default)
• Mod+s: stacking lay-out

When using split lay-out (these take a little getting used to):

• Mod+b: split the current “container” horizontally
• Mod+v: split vertically

Placing windows next to each other will put them in a “group” together, which you can see by them sharing the same blue title bar thing. Using these shortcuts changes how the windows in the group are represented.

I found getting windows in/out of the group I want, and especially splitting and re-arranging groups within groups, to be a little unpredictable, but after using Sway for a while you do get used to it.

Or you could leave the mirrors as they should be, and just turn your head to check your blind spots?