Lemongrab @ Lemongrab @lemmy.one

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Yes, I know that. Some people may need to take extra precautions when going outside. The reason for my original comment is that "outside" does not equal "more private" in many circumstances.

Humans need sunlight and it helps to release dopamine and vitamin D. Important.

Public library would be less private than just pirating the book. Public spaces tend to be thoroughly captured by stray security cameras (often with terrible Security). Impossible to avoid going outside lol so most likely fine.

scary

Embracing 😳

The ancient one. How was it reading from clay tablets lit only by the light of a ghee lamp.

Imagine having a refractory period

Making a post in the privacy community with the tittle "truly independent browser" and a github link makes it seem that this project is related to privacy somehow. Nothing on the github has anything to do with privacy. There is no reason to believe the Dev has any intention to add privacy protection features. It is just another web engine. The only reason gecko has a lot of its anti fingerprinting is because of upstreamed features from the Tor browser, not because gecko's developers engineered them. So my question is still "how does this relate to the privacy community instead of the open source community".

AGPL for the WIN!!! Sadly licensing only works if we have competent laws to protect small developers. The enemy doesn't play by their own rules.

All I was saying is it isn't ready for use as a browser, it states on the github that it is in pre-alpha. It doesn't have the threat model goal of protecting fingerprintable metrics. Using this over security and privacy hardened firefox, even in the future once all the web standards are supported, will worsen your privacy. There needs to be intentional development of anti-fingerprinting measures.

I like choice, this isn't ready and OP should have added more context then just a title and a github. This is not a privacy browser, this is a tech demo.

But it is when you call others stupid for having the belief in a god.

Echo chamber in like a theoretical sense? It looks dead silent, even dead, to me. I should mention I think its a good thing. Maybe my instance defederated at some point and I'm "missing out" on all the fun hate speech? /s

Well if I take things seriously, I always knew that the soldier grabbing the coffee from the women was rude. I think it is better to ask forgiveness and feed the poor hungy sewerman than honor social norm and let him die of caffeine withdraw.

Yes, by educating I mostly mean word of mouth. But also sharing of user friendly guides like PrivacyGuides. An alternative browser can only disrupt Google's control on the web by gaining significant market share, which requires convincing and converting users to the better software alternatives to Chromium. We must educate because we are the tech educated minority, and we require the assistance of the majority to oppose googles unilateral control. I think Gecko is a better option to put development time behind (or better yet Servo), or abandoning many of the privacy invasive web standards and creating a new internet (which of course would never see wide use).

TLDR: We need the majority to be more educated about tech or things will keep getting worse regardless of a new browser engine or anything else.

My point exactly. It isn't ready and OP gave no context for why this relates to privacy. Better suited for the open source community on Lemmy.

This is true. I agree that developers should use more inclusive language in their documentation. I mostly just thought people saw the other post already.

"Singular they" has been common in english since somewhere in the 1300s. Idk how it is confusing, and even if it is, do those individual's opinion outweigh like grammar? If people are confused they can learn, lest they be confused forever. "They" in this instance would be replacing "he", so I think the benefit is clear. Or avoid ambiguity by just saying "the developer" (cus I think it was Dev documentation iirc).

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Maybe it was referring to the browser itself? Therefore "it" would make things much less confusing.

I was only commenting that this post has been posted already twice, once in a closely related community. I have already had to argue with people supporting the Dev's choice to be bigoted. I will just scroll past, just not excited to see more transphobes crawl out of the woodwork.

It think the discussion of this issue has been thoroughly explored in your other post on the "free and open source" community. People know about this now. Is there anything else to cover? All that will be talked about is either "wow, that was an overreaction from the Dev, they seem close-minded" or "you should separate the tech from the developer" or people (bigots) just saying they think he made the right choice.

The discussion is stale.

The only reason Firefox still has any market share is probably because it is old enough. I highly doubt this browser will ever stop google forcing a new web standard. We need to educate the general users to make better tech decisions if we want change. We can stay hopeful about this engine. Still would have liked it if servo was getting more development.

It seems more nuanced than that. Reading over the pull request I saw that brought up, but the "they" was referring to a developer receiving a feedback from the application in some way.