To give you an example, if you have no water in your house you need to report on wp. No other way. And this is the standard for a lot of services, wp is the ONLY way to ask for support.

whatsapp requires phone numbers. surely they can be called

It’s a nightmare, i really want to get rid of meta services but it is impossible for my case.

if you have tech skills, try running a matrix bridge for whatsapp for yourself. take it slowly if you need it, you are not in a hurry. your own server, federation off. keep using whatsapp as you did before, and check for a month or two if the bridge is running stable. subscribe to notifications for github releases of the bridge to know if there’s an important update.
you won’t be able to leave whatsapp behind, but at least you’ll be able to get rid of its apps that do whatever that’s not for your benefit

??

note taking apps often dont sync and don’t keep the timestamp when you “sent” it. vikunja does not work offline. a selfmessaging chat app can keep the message until it can send it

well, cannot say that masses are running from fucking 11 to linux :/

Out of curiosity - have you tried any of the fully Mv3 compatible adblockers yet?

I’m not using any chrome browsers.

and… it just works. Still blocks ads as well as uBlock ever did.

so your benchmark is what you see? that’s far too little in my opinion. I want to block tracking more than ads. but Mv3 blockers don’t have the capabilities for that anymore. Mv3 is useless for that, google knows full well what they have done.

I can’t find them now, but I saw some articles saying that actually Mv3 offers some new tools that help achieve adblock goals easier than Mv2 allowed.

I highly doubt there’s any truth in that. Mv2 blockers can do whatever they want with any asset that gets loaded.
ok, no, there’s an exception. on chrome, Mv2 blockers could not filter traffic at browser startup (when previous tabs are automatically loaded), but that’s a chrome defect and this was not an issue on Firefox for a very long time (if ever)

some wiki article s from the developer:

• https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/About-Google-Chrome’s-“This-extension-may-soon-no-longer-be-supported”
• https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-asked-questions-(FAQ)

all up to date chromium browsers support Mv3.

if you meant Mv2, I doubt they will be able to keep up with the support for long. for now it’s very easy, because all the code is still there in the engine (recently you could still reenable it even in google chrome), but once chromium starts to refactor code, to make it simpler or more modern, those changes will not be done with kerping Mv2 support in mind, and fork devs will have an increasingly harder time to patch back support for it (safely!) as time goes on.

panic about the change from Mv2 to Mv3, and also a lot of misinformation. It’s correct that Mv3 adblocker are somewhat less effective (independent tests don’t show much difference, but in change offer a way better security).

what do those test measure? only what is visible, that is percentage of ads hidden? or does it take into account all the tracking shit regular ublock origin can thwart? I don’t buy that it’s “somewhat” less effective, and neither that it is more secure.

Mv2 will disappear sooner or later,

that’s not a problem with browsers like firefox, where the webrequest api was kept for Mv3.

Only problem exist for uBO,

there are plenty of other addons that make use of the webrequest API, they are just not so well known that half of the average desktop users know it. those are affected too.

due to it’s specific structure need to be practically remade from scratch to be compatible with Mv3,

that’s false. ublock simply cannot do lots of things with Mv3 that it can with Mv2. lite is lite for a reason, and not because in short time thats all he could put together.

then your quote just brings up google propaganda. restrictions of useful features are dressed up as “security”, just like google does it again but now with android with a different approach.

I was answering forking and how realistic it is. You’re changing the conversation into specifics around chrome.

I’m not changing anything. they are powerless. if google decides to change chrome for the worse in a more significant way than UI design, they cannot avoid accepting that change.

and what can they do against the manifest v3 migration? they cannot afford to keep maintaining the code for mv2 addons. it is an important topic for efficient content blocking.

its funny you bring up edge as an alternative. brave too has opt-out telemetry and other shenanigans.

the “supposedly” fascist guy: has an opinion wants to get rid of people not like him and who did not do any wrong

So when they do just fork it?

say the same for chrome, and think again if you mean it seriously.

windows 10 works pretty well too. all things amazon work pretty well too. google’s services very rarely have bugs, even less security breaches. they are all so convenient! why are people switching to alternatives, that are sometimes worse, sometimes better?

Your argument in relation to GitHub does not take in the reality of the effort involved with migrating to a different platform, effort that is likely unpaid, has no logistical upside and stalls the development efforts of a project,

forgejo can automatically import issues, PRs, Wiki articles, and automatic pull/push mirrors can be set up to keep the repo up to date at other places.

the CI/CD system is almost the same.

all the usual features are the same or very similar, including the whole user interface.

not to mention breaking every single source code repository link across the wider internet, links that represent publicity and community engagement.

who said they need to delete the repo from github?

I think it’s admirable that a project is asking its community if it should stay or move

it indeed would be admirable if the communication did not contain offensive tones at multiple places.

and also don’t forget that they already migrated once. but in the meantime it seems they have gone back to github for reasons unknown to me.

I use duckduckgo for searches and proton for emails for 4+ years, and I have been less frustrated than with google services

well, it’s in the settings. “Include anti features” menu.

then ask a friend or a random person on the street about it. “easy for me” does not mean it is easy for the average person. the average person is lost in the settings of their phone, and they rarely turn on the desktop anymore, if they have one

no it is not easy, but there are many open instances so there’s that

installing it is quite easy, if you have some linux-fu, but if you ask my admin its not easy to maintain.

anyone successfully managed to import chat history from one instance to another? heard it’s possible, don’t know of anyone actually doing it.

what do you consider importing?

you can invite another account of yours into the DM room. then export all encryption keys in your old account, and import them in the new one, and now you should be seeing your old encrypted messages. if the room stopped being treated as a DM room after the invite, you can kick your old account and execute the /converttodm command or something like that in element web.

sure! I use the libredirect addon: https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension/ works in firefox on desktop and mobile

it redirects various privacy invading services to privacy preserving alternative frontends that are ran by volunteers. by default it only redirects youtube, so you would need to toggle on reddit too. Currently it only uses 1 redlib instance by default, you may select more to be used in the addon’s settings.

redlib and other frontends are distinct projects. their project page often has a list of public instances. here is redlib’s page: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
but you normally don’t have to look at it because libredirect updates its instance list automatically

sometimes an instance is temporarily blocked by reddit, if that happens you can quickly switch to a different instance in the addon’s menu.

redlib and other frontends usually have some cpnvenience settings, be sure to check them out. but they need cookies allowed, and they are not synced across instances.