How about all the other that have no checkboxes and you can find by snooping around in either the code or about:config ?

Which are? Genuine question. I’m not aware of those either.

There’s more settings you should set regarding privacy

Please be more specific.

The issue is that Mozilla is actively hiding these settings.

They are under “Privacy”, just as I expected where they would.

There’s one (I forgot which one) that you can’t find by searching for the title in the FF settings, you have to scroll to it yourself.

🤷

Friendship ended with Firefox,❎ Librewolf is my new best friend. ✅

A big problem with such forks (same with packages made by Linux distributors) is that there is a delay between official FF release and the release of the corresponding update of the fork. 99% of the time this doesn’t matter much but when there is a severe security issue, the patch needs to be available ASAP.

Past enshittifications of Firefox could be disabled by users. Users who know what to disable don’t need such forks then.

I’m not yet clear what Mozilla even intends. Is it just an adjustment of language of things that are already in FF and can be disabled easily? If so, I just keep the following shit disabled and benefit from earlier update releases.

Installed DuckDuckGo browser as soon as I saw the news the other day.

Oh cool, yet another Chromium variant. That’s going to be an actual change for the better.

The browser you use to download Firefox

Huh? Just type winget install Mozilla.Firefox into PowerShell / cmd.

Proper open source, GPLv3

You’re single-handedly saving this entire thread. I was about to delete it for being off topic.

Meaning separate alternative platforms for each Google product

Except for Maps Nextcloud offers it all, though. It’s not like there is any benefit of using Google Maps and GMail because there are no synergies at all.

I could do all those separately, I guess, but why would I?

You use Google Calendar as your maps app? Google Maps is separate from Google Calendar.

which ones?

Lemmygrad comes to mind.

uh there’s plenty of Russian influence here already.

Entire instances were built around it.

I’ve got a couple of reports that this is not about the Fediverse. It took me a while to be able to look at the reports and since some almost entirely Lemmy-focused discussions have taken place, so I’m leaving this post up because of the discussions.

This is not a precedent to post random off topic stuff, though.

Cybertruck is illegal in the EU, so I can’t.

Workarounds in a specific player don’t negate the fact that the format has limitations.

Aren’t there unofficial extensions to mp3 for gappless playback?

Yes and no.

IIRC an MP3 track is divided in fixed-length frames and unless the actual audio matches perfectly with the end of a frame, it’s not possible and that’s why cross-fading plugins for audio players were invented. The padding data is there either way but can be documented in the metadata section of a file.

Last I checked (and that was years ago, so I may be wrong) this approach was never perfect and prone to breaking. It’s an inherent flaw with the format where some form of workaround exists.

That said, for most use cases this is irrelevant.

A lot of people cant tell the difference between MP3 @320Kbps and a fully lossless FLAC.

MP3 has some disadvantages over more modern formats, regardless the used bitrate. It’s been a long while since I was very interested in audio formats, so I may not be up to date on some newer developments but unless anything major changed, MP3 can’t do truly gapless playback between tracks (used in live albums), for example.

Apple broke metadata compatibility with a recent update. The podcast producer I know with an explicit AAC feed decided to just redirect to the MP3 feed. Unrelated to that, they also increased the MP3 bitrate for better audio quality. The increased file size doesn’t really matter that much compared to 15 years ago and people without unlimited data can just set their automated syncs to WiFi only.

Loops is even less federated that Blue Sky, meaning not at all. (It’s on the roadmap, though.)

The fix was there, but they removed it.

Return YouTube Dislikes still exists. The likes and dislikes of RYD users are stored in an external database, so Google cannot take them away.