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Waterfox to integrate Brave adblock engine, with search ads enabled by default

God, it's not hard to read an article instead of speculate in the comments.

"The new built in blocker will use Brave’s adblock library and run in Waterfox’s main browser process rather than as an extension. Kontos says this should make adblocking faster, more tightly integrated, and less dependent on extension APIs or constant upstream updates."

He also said Brave’s library was chosen partly because its MPL 2.0 license is a better fit for Waterfox, while deeper integration with a blocker like uBlock Origin would be more complicated because of its GPLv3 license.

Waterfox will still make one exception by default by allowing text ads on its default search partner page, currently Startpage, as a way to support the browser financially. The team clarified that this is Waterfox’s own revenue decision and not something inherited from Brave’s adblocking technology. Users who want stricter blocking will be able to disable all ads with a single setting, while people who already use third party blockers can keep using them as usual.

This, to me, is fine, because I change the default regardless. There's nothing stopping anyone else from doing the same. Sure, this could potentially open the door for additional "greedy" decisions down the road, but let's not jump to conclusions.

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Alright, y'all were right, fuck Proton. This was the last straw for me.

Dude, jfc calm down. You pay a little money to get premium services, instead of them monetizing user data. This is the way the world works with paid software, except they're not making money on your data and you, just you.

Maybe some context in what exactly you pay for would help too. I'm assuming you pay for a base tier of mail, bc I use their password manager too but pay for the full suite, and don't have this issue.

Maybe also a chat with support might find this to be an unexpected bug, but instead you're coming to Lemmy to the echo chamber of hate on proton which won't help.

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EU vs USA

I think too many people are too self conscious to join a protest. I think they're (protests) belittled too much to feel impactful, and a lot of that lies in the division falsely created by the media.

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YSK: Walmart online "Marketplace" store has third party sellers that Walmart does not always vet fully, or set their prices. Some of these sellers can be fraudulent in nature.

This is party much every retailer out there, this is not news.

Amazon and eBay are obvious, but Walmart, Best Buy, Staples, Newegg, Target, Lowes, etc. They've all done it to expand their online presence. You have options to filter by company name or "sold and ship by" to cut out possibly bad sellers but you'd not know to check unless you've had a bad experience returning product.

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Linux Gaming Developers Join Forces To Form the Open Gaming Collective

Gaming on Linux has already come a long way over recent years, with improvements to Valve’s Proton and more gamers switching to Linux, but the newly-formed Open Gaming Collective (OGC) is aiming to take it even further.

Universal Blue, developer of the gaming-focused Linux distribution Bazzite, announced on Wednesday that its helping to form the OGC with several other groups, which will collaborate on improvements to the Linux gaming ecosystem and “centralize efforts around critical components like kernel patches, input tooling, and essential gaming packages such as gamescope.”

The other founding members of the OGC include Nobara, ChimeraOS, Playtron, Fyra Labs, PikaOS, ShadowBlip, and Asus Linux. Related

I replaced Windows with Linux and everything’s going great
I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows

Having a wide range of distros to choose from is one of the best parts of using Linux, but shared efforts around important gaming components should improve the experience across the board, resulting in “better hardware compatibility, fewer duplicated efforts, and a more unified Linux gaming experience.” As Bazzite’s announcement post puts it, “a win for one project becomes a win for everyone.”

It’s worth noting that this will mean some changes to Bazzite, which is switching to the OGC kernel, replacing HHD with InputPlumber as its input framework, and integrating features like RGB and fan control into the Steam UI. Bazzite also added that, “We’ll be sharing patches we’ve made to various Valve packages with the OGC and attempting to upstream everything we can."