DuckGuy

The last bullet point might be the most impactful. Google should know the rules by now.

I really do wonder why more people aren’t using Delta Chat.

Anyway. I remember using Session for a few months a couple of years ago. Something about the interface was bugging me. It felt sluggish.

I removed it and it was a pain.

YouTube’s pricing is a mess. Here’s a quick breakdown of their offer here in France :

• YouTube Premium (so video + music): 12€/m

• YouTube Music Premium (music only, obviously): 10€/m

One would assume based on this that Google values YouTube at only 2€/m per user. But anyway, let’s take a look at their family plans for a laugh:

• YouTube Premium (6 users): 18€/m

• YouTube Music Premium (6 users still): 15€/m

Let’s put aside the price discrepancy. 18/6 = 3€/m per user. All signs point to Google being ok with making between 2 and 3€ per user per month, yet such an offer doesn’t exist. Hell, make it 4€, even. People would flock to it. But no, they’re just being greedy.

Sideload uYou+ or set up Yattee. If you don’t know how to do any of those things, look into DNS based ad-filtering like ControlD and install Video Lite. Or skip the DNS part and only install Video Lite, but you’ll see in-app ads unless you pay the $12/y subscription.

Obviously not.

If you’re saying this because Snowden said wait he said on Twitter, I’m sorry but I wouldn’t know. Not because I didn’t try to read the article, I did, but because my custom DNS flagged cointelegraph.com as being malignant and blocked it. True story.

Edit: cointelegraph, not “cointelegram.”

Kind of explains why he isn’t posting there then, doesn’t it?

Because it isn’t secure at all?

Heh.

They silently dropped that motto eons ago.

You’re welcome :-)

Is wipr an extension?

Yep. It isn’t a full-on app like Adguard.

what’s the privacy like

Here’s the succinct privacy notice. Nothing whatsoever is collected.

is it open source

Pretty sure it isn’t.

People suggesting DNS filtering are missing the point. Yes, people should do it, but for cosmetic stuff you need a browser extension.

Anyway. I used to use Adguard. Like you, I noticed how slow it was making Safari. Worse, sometimes it simply wouldn’t work even though it was supposedly active.

I gave Ghostery a try. It worked. No slowdowns or anything. Then I settled for Wipr. You can’t add custom lists to it, but at least it works as intended and doesn’t seem to slow down Safari.

I only ditched Ghostery because I don’t exactly trust them. Otherwise it was working perfectly, too.

PS: I am obviously also using a custom DNS server. I’m a ControlD customer.

I didn’t hear anyone complain when Firefox added pocket support

People did. I did. Firefox’s Pocket integration is always the first thing I disable on a fresh install. You’ll always find people complaining about the tiniest things :-)

Ohhh. So anon doesn’t know how to spell, I see.

"It’s already installed… as a Snap package."

Their lifetime offers come and go, actually, because otherwise they would bankrupt themselves.

hands feel even

Strangely enough I know exactly what she meant by that. Over a decade ago I used to do this thing with words and sentences. Take the word “word”, for example. W goes to the left. O goes to the right. R goes to the left and so D goes to the right. We ended on the right, so it’s fine. But if we ended on the left, then I had to add another word and turn this little mental exercise into a decent sentence.

Sentences were kind of cheating, though, because even if I ended on the left then I just added a dot, which would fill a single “spot” and so make me “end on the right.”

Yep. Convoluted, I know. It used to keep me up at night.

sun my balls

Sun his balls?