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[–] airglow@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Between these two options DuckDuckGo Browser is at least free and open source, while Vivaldi is closed source, which makes DuckDuckGo Browser the better choice.

Firefox and its forks are better than both. Firefox's Gecko engine is independent of Google and Apple, while Vivaldi uses Google's Blink engine and DuckDuckGo Browser uses either Blink or Apple's WebKit engine depending on platform.

[–] airglow@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The paper does not recognize fluoride as a neurotoxin in its current application in Europe:

Overall, despite the remaining uncertainties, and based on the totality of evidence the present review does not support the presumption that fluoride should be considered as a human developmental neurotoxicant at current exposure levels in European countries.

[–] airglow@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The article you linked explicitly concludes:

Overall, despite the remaining uncertainties, and based on the totality of evidence the present review does not support the presumption that fluoride should be considered as a human developmental neurotoxicant at current exposure levels in European countries.

[–] airglow@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

(and possibly Snap)

I hope they exclude Snap from the default installation. Don't want an OS with built-in support for Canonical's closed source app store service when Flatpak is decentralized and FOSS on the server side.

[–] airglow@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Bypass Paywalls Clean removed the paywall on this article for me on Firefox for Android.

[–] airglow@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Hey, I think you're totally right to challenge a statistic when it looks questionable. Censuswide didn't release the full data publicly, and the survey was commissioned by the Ghostery ad blocker, so there's reason to suspect that the data is biased.

I trust the YouGov data more, since YouGov is also a credible pollster and the data is being provided as market research data for businesses. However, since I don't subscribe to their data service, I don't have details of the methodology here, either.

[–] airglow@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Frankly, I'm not sure about the quality of the Censuswide survey.

Market data from YouGov Global Profiles shows that 51-52% of people globally (in "48 markets") use ad blocking on at least 1 device. That percentage is 45-46% for people in the US.

My point is that when a significant proportion of internet users have ad blockers, they're not just niche tools anymore.

[–] airglow@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Mull has defaults that improve privacy at the cost of performance and website compatibility. They maintain a list of changes that you can reverse through about:config. If Mull seems slow for you, consider re-enabling the JavaScript JIT.

[–] airglow@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Over half of all Americans use an ad blocker. It's time to recognize that average users do block ads.

[–] airglow@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Most types of ads can be blocked with uBlock Origin, while only some kinds of paywalls can be skipped with Bypass Paywalls Clean. Ads are the most privacy invasive monetization solution and with ad blocking becoming more common, I don't think ads are a sustainable way to fund content in the future. Still, I would prefer to see voluntary subscription and donation options rather than hard paywalls.

[–] airglow@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Tusky has been working very well for me on Android. There's also Ice Cubes for iOS. Both are free and open source.

[–] airglow@lemmy.world 56 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Any details on that? The full uBlock Origin works well on mobile and I don't see how a lite version with reduced blocking effectiveness could be more useful.

 

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