#Tag · bonfire.cafe

The overhead of disabling every single AI-first change in Firefox is already starting to weigh on firefox-forks.

My view on this hasn't really shifted in the last few months: unless an existing organization, with strong principles, steps forwards and commits to a hard fork I don't really see a future for Firefox.

(I think there are probably only 1-2 orgs with the combination of experience / maturity to actually pull that off, and none of them seem to be even considering that kind of future)

uebelhacker

@uebelhacker@social.tchncs.de replied · 3 days ago

@sarahjamielewis not sure whether #firefox forks like in @iode's #iodéOS can also offer "AI disable by default" or remove any #AI code, but it seems a legitimite way to go. Also, it will be an #EU country to handle such modifications. #France #digitalsouvereignity

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iodé Browser

iodé browser is based on Firefox with #telemetry disabled, trackers removed, and alternative search engines: #Qwant (default), #Brave, #Ecosia, #Metager, Qwant light, #Startpage and several #Searx instances.
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https://iode.tech/iodeos/

iodé

iodéOS - iodé

Privacy-friendly selection of apps We have preinstalled for you a selection of privacy-friendly apps, listed below. It is to be noted that we also have made the uninstallation of preinstalled apps possible with iodéOS! iodé The place to control and visualize the data transmissions from your phone. From here you can: News The News app ... Read more

https://social.tchncs.de/tags/iod%C3%A9OS

Le Alternative boosted

skariko

@skariko@www.lealternative.net · 6 years ago

Alternative a Google Search

Quali alternative a Google Search? Se volete riappropriarvi della privacy nelle vostre ricerche ecco qualche motori di ricerca alternativo!

https://www.lealternative.net/2019/10/18/alternative-a-google-search/

Dillo browser

@dillo@fosstodon.org · 3 months ago

@kzimmermann @rl_dane "most #Searx instances outright block its user-agent" you can change the user agent in dillorc and use the same one links uses, which seems to work with searx instances.

A better solution is to contact the developers to add an exception for the dillo user agent.

R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵

@rl_dane@polymaths.social · 3 months ago

I can't believe it myself, but yes, I've made #Dillo my default browser on my personal laptops. It's never been my default, even though I've used it occasionally, off-and-on, for 25 years. XD

I still fire up #LibreWolf ( #firefox fork) occasionally on those machines, but #DilloBrowser fits in this neat space between terminal browsers and "full-fat" browsers like Librewolf and #luakit.

I'm just wishing it had a "follow mode" for following links from the keyboard, and wondering if there was some way to make it use the clipboard by default, instead of primary selection. I don't quite understand why classic X11 programs use primary selection so much. XD

#SmolWeb

Klaus Zimmermann :unverified:

@kzimmermann@c.im replied · 3 months ago

@rl_dane nice! I also find myself these days running @dillo as my first browser choice for anything "plain-browsing" until either I can't load a given page or I need to use a webapp (banking, etc). And if I'm using a modest computer, Dillo is the only browser I use.

The amazing thing is that sometimes #dillo is the better choice because it will show me the content of pages that would not otherwise load in Firefox with JS disabled!

I just wish more search engines would accept it. Besides DDG lite, it seems that most #Searx instances outright block its user-agent, making searching for things besides text a lot harder with it :\

hamish campbell boosted

witchescauldron

@witchescauldron@kolektiva.social · 6 months ago

This was a programming project from 5 years ago, that did not happen at the time, though we did run an instance of #searx/ to host the code. Opening up #openweb search https://hamishcampbell.com/opening-up-openweb-search/

witchescauldron

@witchescauldron@kolektiva.social · 6 months ago