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[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm on the same boat. But my "what the actual fuck?" moment came when (for those unfamiliar with it) YouTuber Idubbbz came out with a sincere apology for many of his videos that used extremely racist or ableist terms. While aware that his apologies did not automatically translated into being forgiven by the memebers of the groups he insulted, Idubbbz still felt it was important for him to apologize.

And in this situation, Penguinz0 just said that "Idubbbz shouldn't have apologized and it felt like he was exaggerating the whole thing". Way to inject yourself in something that did not involve him at all. Also, that really told me the kind of person Penguinz0 is: someone who dismisses others suffering when it's not his place to do so and someone who just goes off his own gut feelings alone.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

That's not true. The rich are extremely rich and with immense amount of power and influence, while the working class has little to nothing. That's capitalism working perfectly as designed, my friend

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh my bad then. I'm not familiar with Gboard having never used it unfortunately. I don't think then that you can use multiple languages all at once. I can only say that AnySoftKeyboard is very customizable and as far as convenience goes, one can easily change languages with a swipe. You can also add your own exceptions and abbreviations in different languages

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

It does! You can download the additional languages and then configure it how you want (a very common one is to swipe on the space bar)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I stopped using Startpage because they regularly limits service access to IPs reserved for VPNs or Tor and it was immensely annoying having to prove that I'm a human each time I searched for anything.

Have you also heard of SearXNG?

I’d be also curious to know what annoyed you about DDG or Brave search.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Source? Your ass?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Very fair point. My bad, I expressed myself poorly. What I meant with 'targeted ads' was to show ads not on the browser itself but to people who might be more easily convinced to use Firefox. For example, there's a huge amount of viewers on YouTube that are tech-oriented. Nobody is stopping Firefox from sponsoring creators, videos or even collaborating with them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

~~Targeted ads~~. Promotional campains to make people more aware of Firefox/why it's better. Be more present online (instead of passively depending on the userbase). Take inputs from the community and actually doing something with them rather than saying "k" and then doing nothing. Those are just some off the top of my head.

Edit: as pointed out by a kind user, targeted ads was a poor choice of words. I explained myself better below in the comments

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ugh...you can dislike Brave or its disgusting CEO all you want but stop with the misinformation. The crypto stuff is entirely optional and Brave continues to be rated as one of the top browsers in terms of privacy.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

I mean...yeah? Is anyone surprised or shocked when Paramount Pictures releases a new movie? It's literally Google's whole business idea, they sell your data.