People might knock google chrome but if it wasn't for chrome we wouldn't have chromium based browsers that are probably the best browser out there
Brave, Cromite, Vivaldi, Edge, Safari, Thorium, ungoogled-chromium, Opera - opera GX - opera neon(although China meh), torch, comodo dragon, falkon etc.... There's loads of choice out there each with their own added extras and some with really good privacy settings
You'll love this then
Google's reCAPTCHA v2, built for security, is exploiting users for profit
https://counter.social/@ecksmc/112840377775016072
Personally i use a heck of a lot of google stuff but you can lock-it-down and kinda limit what they actually get from you - problem is far to many people just don't give a dam and don't even bother to do simple stuff via account settings never mind dig in and lock-shit-down-further by other means
@Minholkin its soul destroying
Not only for those who do it but for folk who watch it and others who have to put up with it
No one comes out a winner
"These two tiers of warnings are distinguished by iconography, color, and text, to make it easy for users to quickly and confidently make the best choice for themselves based on the nature of the danger and Safe Browsing's level of certainty,"
https://security.googleblog.com/2024/07/building-security-into-redesigned.html
When downloading password-protected archives (e.g., zip, .7z, or .rar), users with Enhanced Protection toggled get prompted to enter the password before sending the file for additional scanning via Google's Safe Browsing service.
Chrome users will now see warnings alerting them of suspicious files (based on lower confidence verdicts and unknown risk of user harm) or dangerous files (on high confidence verdicts and high risk of user harm)
Chrome browser now also sends suspicious files to the company's servers for a deeper scan for users with Enhanced Protection mode enabled
@john_b 👍
Added it to mine a while back and each time I read it always meant to share here & forgot lol just saw it posted on F-Droid mastodon account minded me 😂😂 and since I'd already read it I didn't forget 🤫
@catlynne333 yeah but that 45 million a month was for access to trump should he win & he'd probably get access
Elon knows that's getting slimer each day so why waste cash when he won't get access
I do like F-Droid weekly roundup thingy they do
This Week in F-Droid (TWIF in short)
https://f-droid.org/2024/07/18/twif.html
Let's ya know what apps have been added as well apps being removed and downgraded can be handy in finding new apps as well as making sure you know what they apps were removed for and you might wanna remove them from your device
For years now & I mean years I've been using the same weather app on all android devices I've had its one of the 1st things I do is install that thing with new devices
weather widget pro
that might change now I've found
A foss weather app for #android. highly customizable
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.breezyweather/
@b4cks4w guessing a lot of users might use crypto as means of payment to proton services
Other than that idk 🤷♂️
Its pretty straight forward as well - grab the URL from the source where you download APK from and, can be F-Droid or any site really, GitHub it's the realese page URL, input it into Obtainium add app section - Obtainium will grab the APK download it - you verify using AppVerifier - then install it
Now the app is installed and Obtainium will check for future updates
Got a friend coming round cause they can't get Obtainium "app store" set up properly
"It doesn't have any apps in it"
😂😂😂
I mean, nope it doesn't you have to add the "apps" manually then Obtainium app checks for future updates
https://counter.social/@ecksmc/112636712610020124
You add apps by finding their github page or from any other source
https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/wiki
Before all that you need AppVerifier
so, Eat Your Beans but Skip Reading Dr. Steven Gundry’s ”The Longevity Paradox”: Flaws and Fruits & everything else he says\promotes
I mean, smh at some people
Got a msg from someone
Is Dr. Gundry and "leaky gut" a scam?
Obvs this person has been watching to much of Russell Brand on Rumble cause he promotes this numbnuts of a Dr daily
So my reply
my opinion everything about him is a scam. He’s probably already selling every vitamin known to man to try and make up some of the nutrients in the foods he says we shouldn't eat.
As a scientist he should know foods provide more nutrients than supplements.
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ta be aff yer heid helps