Too tired to sneer at the book myself right now but the article doesn’t pull punches either

Figured it’s worth posting since the book author has featured here more than once recently and has definitely been an enabler to The Shit

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    that really is a fucking annoying banner, yeah. also, lifehack: open these fuckers in temp containers or priv sessions of $browserflavour. counter cookies can’t do shit when they always die.

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        (sorry, this rant isn’t directed at you, but)

        for FUCKS SAKE, mozilla

        Firefox Focus is a free and open-source privacy-focused mobile browser by Mozilla, based on Firefox. It is available for Android[4][5] and iOS smartphones and tablets.[6][7] Its predecessor, Focus by Firefox,

        jesus christ can these people have a worse fucking product development team and/or strategy?

        this company squanders so fucking much potential and goodwill, holy shit

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        7 months ago

        it’s so good

        and it just goddamn works

        on my workstation I have that + Choosy (there are other-OS alternatives to Choosy as well), and I profile-route things as needed along with fallthroughs into complete memoryholes for things I want as little state as possible on

        (I hate the modern web so fucking much)

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      7 months ago

      true! I really need to squash the Lemmy bug that kills my session when I switch tab groups on mobile

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          I have it installed, but haven’t tried it since our instance launched! I should give it another try soon and see if they’ve implemented the admin frontend yet

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            Mlem dev here! Admin features aren’t live quite yet, but they should be available as part of an upcoming beta in a couple of weeks or so.

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              nice, I’ll definitely keep an eye on TestFlight! thanks for all your work on Mlem!