I use it but it is slow with notifications and I don’t like the way both sides have to agree to deleting or self destruct messages.

No. Wife and kids only use the Big tech apps. I think ads and tracking don’t bother them as much as they do me.

New ubo feature: if page does not grant permission to block ads then entire page is blocked.

When I come across a paywall that is not circumvented by simple script blocking I don’t even bother to try anymore and I remove these suggestions from my feed.

Absolutely. Too bad that even unobtrusive ads still can’t be trusted not to have trackers.

“The growth of dark traffic undermines the ability of publishers to fund the production of quality content, or even operate as a business. We must recognise users are not the main driver causing this.”

“It’s demonetising publisher content at scale without user consent.”

They act like we don’t know what we are doing and want the ads. People who block ads in browsers like ddg and brave choose those browsers for that reason.

I use Firefox with Phoenix on the desktop so the standard profile is just a little less strict than librewolf and the hardened profile is a little more strict. https://github.com/celenityy/Phoenix

I was using (and really liked) Librewolf until I heard that they were having trouble keeping up with Firefox updates. Now I’m using the Phonenix configurations for Firefox and keeping the FF updates separate from the privacy configuration settings. Avoiding forks lets you get the best of both worlds.

https://github.com/celenityy/Phoenix https://codeberg.org/celenity/Phoenix/wiki/Comparison

I’ve been on mastodon for 8 years and it’s ok but it can’t catch the masses. It has been paralyzed from advancing by a vocal minority.

It shouldn’t take 6 years to get search and quote posts. They also need optional algorithmic feeds.

Bot?

No mention of phoenix here? I moved from Librewolf over concerns it wasn’t keeping up and this project does much like the arkenfox stuff does by using the current firefox and just changing some settiings and policies so you are never behind the latest version of firefox. Check out their comparisons: https://codeberg.org/celenity/Phoenix/wiki/Comparison#safe-browsing

I used librewolf until there was some concern about them updating in a timely manner.

Now I used Firefox with Phoenix to maybe get the best of both worlds and IronFox on mobile.

I tried Jerboa and Voyager on Android before settling down with SUMMIT. I haven’t found a reason to change since.

And that’s when I leave Bluesky too. Meta goes down within a month and the clock is ticking for Bluesky. I’ll stay in the fediverse.

It allows no external browser and if you leave the app and return the page automatically refreshes so you lose your place.

Fair enough, but so far that hasn’t bothered me. I’ve used librewolf for a year which seems to have most of the same hardening and it doesn’t break the particular sites I use.

So far, the only site that didn’t work was bsky and the solution was a simple permission.

I just installed it without difficulty and it apparently auto updates after that but I am interested in the other criticisms. Where did you read them?

Correction. It does.

It looks like Ironfox doesn’t use Firefox sync?

And also if you don’t show email or phone number anywhere, as I don’t either.

I really don’t mind the single spam I’ve gotten so far and I accepted the request just because I enjoy playing with them.

SimpleX seems pretty nice but I had enough trouble converting my family to Signal. Did you there isn’t feature parity between the iOS and Android versions?