because some people have jobs that dictate they use this shite

the viral framing is completely overblown

still a massive red flag

There you go.

The short answer is: no. You can’t do this.

I spent a long time researching this after my partner insisted on having a TV in the house. The solutions you’ll see online range from “just leave it disconnected from the web” to “use a computer as the default connection”.

I opted for the latter solution. The former is a bad solution because you’ll, at the very best, be stuck with a shit interface full of ads and useless apps. Which computer you use depends on your budget and needs, but I simply don’t see a better solution than that, right now.

Nah that person will have been a “gamer” and told them to install brave

Right, but some people do live in the EU.

I understand the argument is that it would be too much work to make the browser just for people that live in the EU, but building features that most people don’t want to use seems to be their M.O, anyway.

And also, if people outside get jealous that they get to use genuine extensions in their browser, perhaps they could put pressure on apple to do the right thing. Open source is basically dead on ios, so it’d be great to see a bigger player try to do something about this.

I’m not sure that’s completely true, but you might prove me wrong; As far as I’m aware, the issue is that a browser must be rendered in WebKit in order to be available in the appstore.

For lucky users in the EU, that needn’t be such an issue any more.

In addition, I’d like to see more popular apps offered outside of the appstore to get around apple’s illegal bullshit. With luck, applying more pressure worldwide, as users outside of the EU see how good it could be if you don’t allow the oligarchs to always get their own way.

is it even a real firefox on ios?

nope. The project to port gecko to ios has been ‘in progress’ for years, but AI takes priority.

The only extension I ever used was Dash2Dock. OP, or anyone else, is that what’s used here?

Is that what gnomes dock looks like, these days? I like it.

I just think there’s a sizeable gap between “nobody” using something and the mass market appeal encouraged by corporate interests

I’m not sure I follow your point. Why is popularity necessary? Arent windows and macos already popular? If the price to pay for offering a viable alternative to those two is dealing with the likes of Dell and stripe, let alone DHH, is it really such a great option?

In other words, my personal reasons for using linux are significantly weakened by the involvement of american corporations.

The money will likely benefit Linux as a whole

I have major doubts that corporate money (and therefore influence) is a positive thing for linux

Correct, far too many.

They are cars. There’s your downside.

there used to be a time when a business had to have a proven product/service that brought consistent value to the customer.

Really, I think that time is long gone. There’s faster, greater money to be made by selling a vaporware future than there is by selling an actual product.

2026 businesses are looking back at the old fashioned model of selling things to customers and laughing out loud.

Yup. Also, in this case and many others, the reason they disabled the feature was to force people to use their “widgets”. i.e. see more ads.

Never forget: calendar flyout

It was years ago, but that straw broke this camel’s back

This is an advert.

using a duress code to erase data

Just for my information, is that possible on androids without grapheneOS?

It’s not some shadowy cabal of malicious people

It literally is.