I like Vivaldi, but in my experience, LibreWolf is even better at blocking some of the worst ads.

Waterfox didn't come out of thin air, though. It still needs Firefox to provide an updated browser code so they can do their changes. I doubt they could handle a full browser standalone on their own.

And libre wolf!

PWAs

Poles With Attitudes?

I started blocking sites like Facebook, Amazon, Instagram and every AI slop in my search results and it made everything so much better.

I'm working on a website, and to ensure it had the old Internet charm I'm doing everything from scratch. Learning html and css on the go and using bright colors. I hope some friends would make their own sites at some point so we could have our own little web ring, or find strangers who are doing similar things to me. I've been using wiby.me to find random cool sites but I wonder if there are places where people who are in a similar niche can hangout (that's perhaps more active than !keepwriting@lemmy.world

It's been cyclical so far!

Check out my Myspace page, while you're there you can find me on Digg and google video! /s

I used to read a lot of comics on the internet, pretty sure I hit mid to high 60s of bookmarks. 80% of them no longer exist.

Even the newer sites for things like finding niche products have been wiped, I used Massdrop for an age to get some good tech, now its owned by corsair and sells absofuckinglutely nothing.

The modern rules of the internet are "If it doesnt make more money than god then it's not worth shit, if it does, then it's bought out by a shady conglomerate then used to harvest your data"

You’re the ATM card.

To an extent sure. But if their adding some ai MCP server to the browser etc. It's going to be way more dangerous. So for me at least of kind of a wash.

Yes Firefox has pretty much been my daily driver since before it was called Firefox. And the UI overhaul in zen definitely elevates it. I wish the Mozilla Foundation was less focused on AI and advertisement bullshit and more focused on things like UI improvements or web USB support etc. The underlying engine is pretty decent. But it's the foundations behavior that really makes it not viable for a lot of people.

Good to know as well. I don't have a use case myself so I never bumped into it.

Not OP, but it's insanely useful for microcontroller stuff

Was part of a team who created an esp32 based gadget for "regular" people at a convention, and it was super easy to set up a website that reflashed the device if they wanted to change something or messed something up

No need for users to install weird sdks, tool chains or using a terminal

No not really, once it's been forked the original can die and the forks will be just fine.

librewolf but links2 is my favorite