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The company behind Opera browser also runs a loan shark operation (www.spacebar.news)
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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 36 points 9 months ago (2 children)

uh have you tried xydfgq-blurble browser it's my home brew fork of chromium and firefox i call it "chromefox" which is also my fursona

thinking of changing the name to something lighthearted, marketable and non-objectionable like "GNU-Scrotum"

i am the only maintainer and i keep up with 110% of security issues

we are not in the android store as the oppressive statists at google said that if i ever switched on this uh "piece of shit" in a built up area theyd cut my nuts off, but

ignore the FUD about chromefox spilling your bank account and leaking your tastes in hentai and fucking your cat it's all LIES FILTHY LIES by THAT BITCH ANDREW he is SUCH an asshole

anyway free software stallman was right peace out

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 23 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I just curl pages and render it all in my head. It's easy with my 10 Morbillion IQ

[–] self@awful.systems 11 points 9 months ago

the only reasonable way to interact with the web is to write a shell script that mails the source to each page you try to view to the 2001 laptop you insist on using even in spite of freer modern options, I said, reaching for delicious foot skin to chew

[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@swlabr @dgerard curl? Coward. I wrote my own client using awk, head and date

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Lmao look at this chud actually trusting awk, head and date

[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@morrowind I created my own binaries by flipping the switches on the front of a PDP-11 though, I don't trust gcc, and neither should you

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago

flipping the switches on the front of a PDP-11

lmao, look at this chud actually trusting random hardware. I only use custom designed, hand made (by me!) computers which I flip switches on to program. I also mine the materials myself, and went back in time to make make sure they were acceptable before being created in a star or something.

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[–] self@awful.systems 9 points 9 months ago

this post is like a specially crafted basilisk for parts of my brain and soul I normally refuse to acknowledge

[–] MrCookieRespect@reddthat.com 36 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I mean don't use anything besides Firefox, pretty obvious.

[–] SurpriZe@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Vivaldi has been great the whole time

[–] Fish@midwest.social 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Some websites don't work with Firefox. That's why I use Brave as a secondary browser.

[–] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I’ve been using FF for over 15 years at this point and I have never, not even once, ran into any issues with any site that I went to. Now, is the website you are talking about shareable by you? I don’t want it if it’s a bank or something that could some how be linked to you. I just really really want to see a website that doesn’t work on FF. I’m not trying to come off as a dick or anything, I am genuinely interested to see what it looks like and how it behaves.

[–] Fish@midwest.social 2 points 9 months ago

I'm in school right now and have to use the Cengage website. There are lab modules that don't work with Firefox.

[–] Lekip@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago

Not sure if it's still the case and replicateable without an account. But on enscape3d.com you can't submit tickets from FF for example

[–] Truck_kun 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

https://www.pge.com/en/accessibility/supported-browsers.html#tabs-281f6d0cf8-item-5d2127a6b9-tab

Soon as I login, I cant do anything, always some invisible pop-up or something trying to load endlessly while I see my bill below, but cant click anything. Even got a notice the other day that my browser is not supported.

I have a net metering credit that covers my bill, so not a real issue for me, but still frustrating.

[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 4 points 9 months ago

if its brave devs vs loan sharks I'd have to go with the loan sharks

[–] MrCookieRespect@reddthat.com 4 points 9 months ago

Then these websites can go get fucked. I'm not using them, and when its my bank i walk my ass to my bank and cancel my bank account there.

If you require chromium, you make people use a less secure browser because your company sucks Google dong. Fuck that, fuck them fuck it all.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 34 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

My advice of "stay away from anything a youtuber tells you to use" is becoming more and more vindicated every day.

[–] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It’s funny you say this as I was telling my SO after seeing the Opera GX browser on some YouTubers screen in the background that that automatically made me wary of their content because Opera isn’t all that great, let alone a “gamer” specific version of said browser. Then this news of them being shady came out like a week later and I just had to point that out to my SO as a crazy coincidence that we were just talking about it!

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

Fucking wild.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

*through sponsorships, genuine advice is fine

[–] li10@lemmy.ml 14 points 9 months ago

Yesterday I was installing some cracked software on my laptop and accidentally installed a straight up virus as I clicked the wrong download link.

I’m gonna need to re image the machine, but as far as I can tell all it actually did was install Opera…

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 9 months ago

I was wondering why they had an office in ZA*, with a designer and a couple of people that seemed like project and business managers

but that almost certainly explains it.

(* it's in Green Point, CPT. I'm struggling to find an address listed online, "cape town opera" is a not-lightly overloaded term)

[–] AcausalRobotGod@awful.systems 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is it still the midst popular browser in Belarus?

[–] zogwarg@awful.systems 3 points 9 months ago

Not since 2013! https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/belarus/2014 still has a large presence though. (20% in poland!)