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I have a few to recommend...
Firefox - Stop giving an ad network all of your data on a silver platter.
Affinity Photo - Good photo editing software with perpetual licensing.
digiKam - FOSS photo organizing software
Strawberry Music Player - A fork of a fork of amaroK, good music player!
VLC - Watch any video file.
Kodi - Consume your media library, in style!
OpenRA - Play the original Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert as well as Dune 2000 on modern hardware/software for free.
Unreal Tournament 2004 - I have bought this game three times, the original CD release on 6 discs, Steam and GOG. This is to my mind the best arena shooter ever, the original CD release even came with an official Linux installer.
they can be found on openra.net
That is a horrible abuse of the term "arcade shooter"
You are completely right!
UT2004 is not an arcade shooter, it is an arena shooter, sorry about that, thank you for correcting me
Minor warning about Strawberry Music Player:
If you are looking for a completely free local music player on windows or mac without paying, I'd skip this because both versions are tied to patreon last I checked. I know as a fact the windows version is, but not 100% sure on the mac version since I don't have a mac.
I personally think it's good enough if you feel like paying for it so they can keep developing it, but it's good to keep this kinda stuff in mind.
Tied to patreon how?
I was on Clementine before but development seems to have stalled
Currently, at least for the windows version, you need to be part of the patreon if you don't want to have to build from source. Right now I can get on my desktop and load Strawberry (which I got before this started happening) and it'll tell me there's an update for the windows version, the one I have because my desktop currently runs win10. If I click the button to update, it'll take me to their patreon account and ask me to support them if I want the precompiled update.
I'd build from source on windows, but that sounds like a nightmare, so I just haven't been able to update.
Ah, I had no idea, thanks for letting me and others know!
I hope you don't mean stock firefox.
What is wrong with stock Firefox?
I hope you are not calling it worse than Chrome, because that would be insane.
Hmm yeah. Not as bad as chrome but not that better. At this point, I use Librewolf because it allows uBo and has mozilla spyware removed. Mozilla pretends to be privacy-friendly. They aren't your friend.
telemetry is not spyware.
Google collects data because their business model depends on them knowing as much about you as possible. Mozilla collects the data they need to fix bugs.
Funny
You should look at their privacy policy. You'll be shocked at how privacy invasive they really are.
i have. which part do you find objectionable?
Well then, you should know that they aren't any better. They track and spy on users, and also put ads into the browser itself.
answer my question.
The answer is the entire privacy policy.
Oya oya, it seems like you havent read the privacy policy or even bothered to put the entire thing to a summarizer.
why should I put it into a summarizer
but if you had to pick? since you've so obviously studied it.
Sure:
so the local-only recommendations based on anonymized data about things that ublock stops, and the opt-out malware scan?
thank you for replying with something substantial. thankfully this is all stuff that's inconsequential and/or easily disabled.
np, have a good day
you posted asking for software, and now just arguing about Firefox?
go find your own software then, jesus christ. did you just come looking for a fight? you don't ask for people's opinions then shit on them.
When did I ask for software??? I think you're confusing me with the OP.
yeah, sorry. the M threw me off for a sec.
All good.
Well yeah, they are a company, I have never thought of them as a friend.
I would like it if they released an annual "Firefox Pro" version, the only difference would be that Pro version would be branded as "Firefox Pro" and a badge in the about dialog.
You would pay €20 for it, and Mozilla could rely less on ads, and focus more on privacy.
Why not just a donation?
Why not get rewarded for it as well?
yeah ok. It's not like nobody rewards donators
Really? What does Mozilla do?
I genuinely have no idea
wdym? we were discussing donations. no?
if you are back on the privacy topic, let's just say they aren't as privacy-friendly as they say they are. I wouldn't be using anything firefox-based browsers if other usable alternatives existed. their sandboxing is pretty bad on android. which is also why, for example, grapheneOS ships vanadium, which is a chromium based browser.
You just claimed that donations are already rewarded, I am asking how.
no no, there seems to be a misunderstanding.
I said:
I referred to others like FSF that reward users by giving them something. For example, Signal gives badges in their app.
Ok, so Mozilla does nothing?
Then why is my idea bad?
I just personally don't like it.
Ok, that is fine, you don't have to like it.
It is just an idea from a guy who is not even on the same continent as Mozilla HQ is