Much of Lemmy believes that if a person or entity does one bad thing, then the person or entity itself is bad. Of course taken to the logical conclusion this means that we would all have to live in caves to be moral. But each of those lemmy users has their own set of mental gymnastics for why their chosen set of conveniences is justified.
Firefox is obviously way worse than supporting the unholy amount of data harvesting being done by billionaires enabling them to control even more of our lives... Right?
Damn, I used to think Firefox was at least slightly less secure than Chrome and other browsers. But after learning more about data collection, I’m going to start using Brave instead. This capitalist world is crazy—many Android apps contain trackers and collect far more data than they need. It feels like nothing is truly safe because every option has its own problems. It’s frustrating that companies such as Google collect and profit from people’s personal data. Their greed seems endless: they always want more users and more data to monetize.
Not even fucking remotely. Brave is text book example of good PR and lies. They lie their fucking ASS off and have fantastic PR so that word of mouth stays positve so people dont realize how actually fucked they are.
If you think Firefox collects too much data about you. Which I doubt. You can go with any privacy focused Firefox fork such as libre wolf. Why would you go to a chrome based browser?
Some people say Brave is almost on the same level as Firefox for blocking ads, but others don't like it because it's too similar to Chrome. I'm still not sure which browser to use, so I'll check F-Droid for a more secure option
Brave is LITTERALLY chrome but with a built in ad blocker. Thats it. If you think firefox harvests your data like mad i have some bad news about brave.
Brave sucks, they have scammy built-in crypto stuff and the CEO is a bigot. They’ve also been caught doing shady stuff like injecting their own ads in place of other ads. If you care about privacy and no ads, just use Firefox + ublock, or Librewolf.
It does almost everything people need Adobe Acrobat for, and also you can make some minor adjustments to photos like cropping, and convert between formats.
YSK, PDF files can harbor significant risks, this has been ongoing for years, vulnerabilities crop up and they get patched. More crop up, meaning who knows what is currently unpatched?
I've been using pdfsam since before I remember, I know it has a funky interface, and it has premium at cost features, but for basic split and merge it's fine
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I don't get the hate in the comments. there is plenty to complain with firefox but adding the pdf features is not one of them.
Much of Lemmy believes that if a person or entity does one bad thing, then the person or entity itself is bad. Of course taken to the logical conclusion this means that we would all have to live in caves to be moral. But each of those lemmy users has their own set of mental gymnastics for why their chosen set of conveniences is justified.
Anyone more moral than me is insane and anyone less moral than me is hitler. /s
Best use of this meme ever. 👏👏👏
see also
pdfunitefrom thepopplerorpoppler-utilspackagemutool mergefrom themupdf-toolspackageWhat a cute meme template
or
how about uploading sensitive company data to a random website that merges pdfs
This is the way.
https://www.bentopdf.com/
can also selfhost
Double triple quadruple +1 on BentoPDF.
Is that additive or multiplicative?
Is that +10 or +24?
Yes.
I hope you're happy. I divided because you said 'yes' and it made me ugly!
I just now became ugly because of what you did.
Came here to recommend Bento, it's fantastic
stirlingpdf is good too for self hosting
I've been using Firefox for a while now. I don't see anything wrong with it. I don't understand why people hate it so much.
Firefox is obviously way worse than supporting the unholy amount of data harvesting being done by billionaires enabling them to control even more of our lives... Right?
Damn, I used to think Firefox was at least slightly less secure than Chrome and other browsers. But after learning more about data collection, I’m going to start using Brave instead. This capitalist world is crazy—many Android apps contain trackers and collect far more data than they need. It feels like nothing is truly safe because every option has its own problems. It’s frustrating that companies such as Google collect and profit from people’s personal data. Their greed seems endless: they always want more users and more data to monetize.
Brave is literally a crypto scam ran by a bigot that replaces publishers ads with its own, WHY would you use it 😭
Not even fucking remotely. Brave is text book example of good PR and lies. They lie their fucking ASS off and have fantastic PR so that word of mouth stays positve so people dont realize how actually fucked they are.
If you think Firefox collects too much data about you. Which I doubt. You can go with any privacy focused Firefox fork such as libre wolf. Why would you go to a chrome based browser?
Some people say Brave is almost on the same level as Firefox for blocking ads, but others don't like it because it's too similar to Chrome. I'm still not sure which browser to use, so I'll check F-Droid for a more secure option
Brave is LITTERALLY chrome but with a built in ad blocker. Thats it. If you think firefox harvests your data like mad i have some bad news about brave.
Brave sucks, they have scammy built-in crypto stuff and the CEO is a bigot. They’ve also been caught doing shady stuff like injecting their own ads in place of other ads. If you care about privacy and no ads, just use Firefox + ublock, or Librewolf.
Why not just use Firefox, though.
It isn't "too similar to Chrome"; it is Chrome. Brave is a Chrome-based browser.
Here's a really in-depth article about why Brave is sketchy. Without even getting into the CEO's politics, the company itself has done several scummy things over the years.
What I recommend is using Zen Browser with uBlock Origin.
What data collection is Firefox doing?
https://itsfoss.com/firefox-pdf-merge/
Taking screenshots of each page and stitching them together into one enormously long jpg in Gimp:
In case any Mac users are unaware, any Mac with OS post 2007 can do this natively with Preview. It’s very handy.
Ah so THAT'S what preview can do. My mother-in-law asked and I had nothing to tell her.
It does almost everything people need Adobe Acrobat for, and also you can make some minor adjustments to photos like cropping, and convert between formats.
You can do a bit with it. View PDFs, enter info in fields, mark things up, draw basic images, compose images into others, sign documents, etc.
I keep a copy of my signature in preview for work. Love it.
Preview is great for making low effort memes
LibreOffice Draw also works really well for merging pdfs
Can delete one page in a PDF in Firefox?
UPDATE: this feature is coming soon! It's in the nightly versions of Firefox
"Print as PDF", select the pages to print. That's universal.
Not quite what I wanted but it should work.
YSK, PDF files can harbor significant risks, this has been ongoing for years, vulnerabilities crop up and they get patched. More crop up, meaning who knows what is currently unpatched?
From February of this year:
https://cybersecuritynews.com/jspdf-vulnerability-injection-attacks/
I've been using pdfsam since before I remember, I know it has a funky interface, and it has premium at cost features, but for basic split and merge it's fine
While this is certainly neat, I can also highly recommend PDF Arranger. I've been using it forever and it can do all types of PDF stitching.
What in the guerilla marketing is this shit??
Yeah! This is just Mozilla trying to make you spend money on....umm....
companies have been making memes for about a decade. why are you surprised?
Im surprised it got shared by humans here
Here, I think I can help:
Well fair enough, seems like this isn't a space for me then.
No one cares Mozilla....