I just read about this extension today. Seems interesting. The description says It’s supposedly doing more than just switching the UA.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-mask/

The good thing is that Firefox has got some decent forks like Librewolf, which are worth exploring if one is okay with slightly delayed updates.

It was surprising to see this from Firefox, and even more unsettling was the fact that this was turned on by itself in my desktop firefox settings since the last update. So it was opt-out by default, while I expected this to be opt-in, just like their telemetry.

Not good. Nope.

Yep, someone thought of porting the awesome Freetube app to Android. It’s not as polished as NewPipe, but gets the job done. Especially at this time, it’s the only one that is working, having both a local API as well as option to use Invidious API.

I pulled the apk straight from their github page via Obtainium. You may want to give it a try.

https://github.com/MarmadileManteater/FreeTubeAndroid

Most Piped instances are also not working because they use NewPipe Extractor under the hood.

I have also temporarily switched to FreeTube for Android, because a few of the Invidious instances are still working fine.

The nice thing about the FOSS world is that it’s pretty easy to import subscriptions and other stuff from NewPipe to FreeTube.

I hope this YouTube fuckery is handled soon. I love NewPipe way more every time it successfully deals with the YT weirdos.

It says that Piped is affected as well. This is probably a dumb question from me, but I use NewPipe in my phone to access YT - and it did not cause any trouble yet. I heard that the Piped project also uses NewPipe Extractor under the hood (which basically scrapes YT website). So why would Piped break but not NewPipe ?

Earlier I was wanking for no reason, but now I get to showcase my c*m to investors - yaay

• CEO Steve F*ckman

Tesla should recall Musk, for good.

I don’t exactly recall when or where I heard/read this quote, but man it is dope

• “it should not be a concern when people pirate your content, it should be when people don’t even want to pirate your content”

Thank you for creating this awesome Android client for an equally awesome FOSS place (Lemmy). I am a regular user of your Voyager app on my Android phone, and I use it together with Jerboa (which is still there in my phone as the OG app for Lemmy, no offences to Voyager, lol).

The only two features that I think are lacking in voyager and will make it the best are -

(1) Show the Avatars of profiles. Currently they are not displayed.

(2) More text editing options - not just limited to Bold and Italics - please add options to strikethrough texts and quote something to reply. I do know the keyboard shortcuts for these, but having dedicated editing buttons for them would be amazing !

Once again, thanks for this awesome app !

I know. It’s Extremely Infuriating. But I found only one community for Extremely Infuriating that appears to be a ghost town.

Which is why I posted this here.

I am waiting for the day when governments will have had enough of him (unless he bought those governments because that fucker is fucking rich) - and “Elon Musk” becomes “Felon Musk”.

Yeah I agree. Let them die alone, thinking about Alien abduction and crop circles.

“Stilted”?

You sir, are one of those fucking amazing people who profusely apologize for not being a native English speaker and then blurt out 37 paragraphs of perfect English.

You have nothing to be ashamed of - your English is better than a lot of them native speakers ! And always remember this :

“You are speaking English because that is the only language you know; I am speaking English because that is the only language you know. We are not the same.”

And as to your original question - if I ever ask them “what evidence did you see which proves X happens?”, I have almost always been hit with the reply, “Oh yeah? What proof do you have that says X does not happen???”. And then I tell them the anecdote of the Invisible Dragon by Carl Sagan. Look it up if this is new to you, and for a more formal treatment, check out Karl Popper’s theory of Falsifiability.

I have personally converted at least one conspiracy theorist to being an Agnostic. So I know it works. Try them out, it’s fun.

And I also am not a native English speaker to be honest :-)

I should have mentioned that I already have theluddite.org RSS in my reader, and I do enjoy your articles. Thanks !

That lawsuit simply says : “acquire me, acquire me, O Holy Musk, acquire me…”

Good.

Now that makes sense.

…worst platform for disinformation…

Is that a double negative, or am I hallucinating ?

Europix for me above anything else. Netflix and Disney can go and self-serve their backsides…