are there any working instances nowadays? Invidious is better on that front.

weird because invidious is harder to maintain

It shouldn’t be normal that this data is stolen and sold. That is 100% the problem, not the fact that people track things on computers.

it shouldn’t be, but that’s the world we live in. we can’t change it anymore.

that’s the part I understood that way:

But no, matrix is not fediverse, it’s not compatible and will never be (my opinion) because the commercial entity behind the matrix standards has no intention to open up that much the matrix ecosystem.

Yes Matrix is not compatible with AP. Just a fact, not a judgment.

of course, I don’t debate that. but you brought that up as a conclusion of matrix not being open. and it does not make sense. matrix not being compatible with AP is not because “matrix is closed” (whatever that means), but because the own protocol of matrix works vastly differently. its an entirely different thing. both are competing protocols for communication services. surely bridges could be developed, but these just cannot be “compatible”

I think there can be a difference. github encourages this behavior, even provides the tools for it. but if the forgejo community stands strongly against it from the beginning (users reporting true slop, moderators deleting and banning them, admins defederating from intentional slop sources), then maybe that kind will stay away from the platform

But no, matrix is not fediverse, it’s not compatible and will never be (my opinion) because the commercial entity behind the matrix standards has no intention to open up that much the matrix ecosystem.

not compatible with what? ActivityPub? that’s no different from XMPP

and which part of the matrix ecosystem is not open?

that probably depends on the blocklists used, like with ublock

fingerprinting can be based on detecting what resources are blocked, and sometimes also how are they blocked. but blocking will become the baseline, so nefarious companies will have less of chance to tell the difference

still it wasn’t blocking ads, and even I as a poweruser was not aware that I could add externally maintained ad blocklists

Waterfox has a much smaller market share and much smaller budget, and was able to clear this with search partners just by promising not to block ads on them by default.

my point is not actually about search providers, but more generally websites intentionally breaking support for gecko based browsers. waterfox itself is too little, most developers don’t even know about it I think. but firefox is the flagship/reference gecko browser, with more of a measurable number of users. if they implement a good ad blocker in the base browser, that could discourage advertising related sites from serving/supporting this browser.

brave is different in that it uses chromium, which the sites just happen to support already because of chrome. but firefox support is often not a priority even today

Rust is faster than JavaScript

isn’t ublock’s filtering compiled to webassembly?

Actual ad blocking is something Firefox users have been begging Mozilla to do

seems a bit dangerous though to risk for a browser with so small market share

where I live its mandatory for all sales to be registered live with the tax office

can I ask which continent?

oh yes I would

how do serial numbers get on the blacklist?

how do you do that on samsungs?

what is your recommendation?

no they didn’t, yes it could have happened:

1. GCC: exists, not too good messages
2. rust gets made
3. rust gets popular
4. gcc error messages get improved by good example of rust

gcc is not a dead project. it is continuously maintained. its improvements can be influenced by other projects like rust

I think they didn’t enshrine the right to end to end encryption, it’s just that they did not renew the temporary law allowing voluntary scanning for tech companies

yes, it was that the phone was saving notifications to a database, because the notification history feature was not disabled by the user. but that affects non-push notifications too, and it only becomes a problem when your phone is compromised (malware, including police malware)

but if you don’t trust your phone with not leaking your notifications, you shouldn’t trust it not leak what you typed in and what you watch on it either, because the operating system has access to all of these too. in that case you are looking for a better phone brand, maybe even a custom rom that’s known for privacy