Use the german Betterbird client instead!

  • Reznik@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    …and it’s build on chromium. Yes, technically chromium is open source. In reality Google is the main (afaik it’s only noticable) contributor so it’s a Google baby. And using something based on chromium strengthens Google’s ability to force or deny web technics. If you don’t want Google to control web development stop using browser build on top of chromium.

    In reality you have 2 choices: Use firefox (or some fork) or buy a mac and use safari. Every other browser empowers Google.

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      3 days ago

      3rd choice, use curl and just go full matrix mode on the HTML. “I don’t even see the tags anymore, I just see tracking cookie, javascript bloat, the download URL I am looking for…”