Uh... no? It just puts sponsored backgrounds when you open new tabs or windows notifications if you opt-in

It never replaced ads in websites afaik

Sure, that sucks, but the product is good

You can't always agree with everyone

it has better anti fingerprinting than firefox? That's nice to know

Most people never bother to read anything beyond the title of the post. Let alone click the link to the article.

Now, i don't know how everyone sees up/down votes. But I always thought that content and comments that is relevant and promotes discussion is good. And comments that aren't are bad.

Rather than a measure of others opinions.

"It just works" only works for very basic normie stuff.

I think that was @Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world's main point. Apple is great if you're a normie, but if you even think about tinkering with things, have an unusual issue on your system, or creatures forbid... want to play games, you're fucked.

My mom is an Apple diehard who has used Android and Windows in the past (2000s), but got burned by Window's shitty security and really only switched to iPhone due to iMessage being more reliable than SMS at the time. She knows a little bit of tech stuff (I guess I get it from her), but overall, she's a "normie" compared to me, so Apple (90% of the time) does what she needs.

It simplifies a lot of things

If this was me about 3 weeks ago, I wouldn't have debated this as hard. But recently my grandma had to call my mom and I to help her get her iPhone pictures to work on her Windows laptop, and she almost thought she downloaded a virus when trying to get an HEIC app. Apple's asinine proprietary file format is a plague on society, and I hated when I had to send pictures from my iPhone to my Google drive for school in HS. That's not simple, and now we have to help grandparents understand that they need to screenshot their camera pictures or else literally no website will take their damn photos.

The little things add-up for me, and so yeah, it's nice having something that "just works", but only if you literally accept everything and never complain about any of their choices.

Tbf, anything that isn't AI Windows blocks the feature. Including regular Windows.

People just need to not fall for the scam edition and they don't have to deal with this shit.

What if they always decline cookies? Or is this cookie one of those necessary ones?

Just don't use Chromium unless you for some reason absolutely have to. Mozilla is just another corporation, but they're not exactly threatening to monopolise the internet. Google is, and using Chromium directly aids in their effort to do so.

Firefox has done shit too

Firefox has injected my URLs with affiliate codes?

Media codecs and formats

Got burned by this recently, was trying to use MPV for playing a YT vid, and it had no video but had audio. Turns out Fedora comes with an open-source or smth version of H264 encoders, so I had to uninstall those packages for the official Cisco ones. But I was on atomic and it wasn't fun so I ran to forums for help.

Driver availability

Not sure if it's the driver or the kernel (maybe dual-booting? But it worked on both partitions originally...) but my Bluetooth is nuked on my Linux partition. I tried to do rfkill, btusb, systemctl, etc. and the only solution I got was to rollback to an older release of Fedora atomic because it's most likely a kernel issue. That just sucks man, having to be stuck on an older version to get my earbuds to work lol. I didn't like atomic and now I'm on reg KDE Fedora, so I'm truly fucked as that's not a rollback distro.

I still love using Fedora (every time I boot into Windows I cry) and it just makes me love my laptop like it's brand-new. Tinkering is fun to me, I'll literally sit at my desk and starve myself while trying to get something to work. But some days, I want my stuff to work with minimal tinkering, and not have to worry if it'll break when I really need it down the line.

This is about the Smart App Control feature in Win11 that takes screenshots periodically to check for "malicious activity". its basically a glorified keylogger built into the OS. Firefox should really follow suit and block this too.

Nope, but it put a closed source Mr Robot plugin without asking anyone

It's not that bad. Sure, having more choice is good, but it's not as life threatening as you make it seem

Using android and stock ROMs is a bigger problem

Brave Ads

Set up and manage advertising campaigns with Brave to increase website traffic and sales.

(ads.brave.com)

They're not actively replacing elements on a web page, but they're still getting paid to show you ads and you can opt in for some crypto nonsense.

I'm as crypto bro as they come. Fuck Brave, BAT is a pay-to-surf scam.

Sure, so? It's still opt-in, and by default it sends the generated crypto money to creators and websites you visit

If you don't like it, don't enable it? They're pretty transparent about how it works overall

They have pretty much abandoned this feature anyways

Holy shit, what a comment!

This is about the Smart App Control

It's not, it's about Recall.

that takes screenshots periodically to check for “malicious activity”

It doesn't. Smar App Control does code validation and reputation check. Recall makes screenshots, OCR's them and keeps them in an encrypted vault for the user to interact with.

built into the OS

It's not, you can turn both off at any time.

its basically a glorified keylogger

It's not, it fundamentally is NOT, because it doesn't log any keystrokes. SAC isn't even in the picture here, while Recall literally only makes screenshots, runs OCR and encrypts that.

Fuck me, where do you people get this bullshit from? It used to be "oh no, Microsoft will be making screenshots of your activity and sending them to their servers" not so long ago which, while still bullshit, was at least in the same ballpark as what Recall does.

Now you're throwing SAC into the mix somehow?

Do you consider any form of telemetry "spyware"?

What feature? Recall?? That's Windows 11-specific and hasn't even launched yet??

OK, you need to explain to me how tf does Linux block something that works only on Windows.