I used to use NetZero. Free dialup internet that injected ads into your web browser because HTTPS wasn’t common back then.
I used to use NetZero. Free dialup internet that injected ads into your web browser because HTTPS wasn’t common back then.
I’m really happy my Lemmy app (Thunder) has an option to not show display names. I only see normal usernames and none of that KOLONAK bullshit.
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This may not be helpful to you in particular, but I wanted to throw this out there.
I don’t like Auto Rotate because apps can undesirably rotate when the phone is in odd positions. However, I think it’s great for video apps, camera apps, and photo galleries.
Auto Auto-Rotate fixes this. It’s free and open source. When you toggle the Auto Rotate setting on or off, you’re doing it for just the current app!
So now I just rotate my phone the way I want and YouTube matches. No need to hit the full screen button.
Also, if you don’t know, in the YouTube app you can swipe a video up to make it full screen without having to use the full screen button. Of course, it’ll rotate the “natural” way first, which is what’s annoying you. Just thought I’d mention it. I sometimes use that feature when my phone is flat on a table while I’m eating or something and I don’t want to pick it up to engage auto-rotate.
To work best, Auto Auto-Rotate equires a persistent notification, but even with that off, it will work for a long time before you have to relaunch the app. Battery optimization for the app should be off, of course.
I was the first person to post on the pluriverse in 2008.
Does lemmy.world use third party cookies for authentication or something? Otherwise, I don’t see how strict mode should interfere.
Why would Lemmy not work in strict security mode when every other site works just fine? It’s just a cookie, right? How is lemmy.world special?
I definitely had the bug when double-tapping the app switcher on my Pixel 4a, but I never had that problem on my Pixel 7 Pro, nor this one:
For example, Google Pixel owners running alternative launcher apps can’t use the “select” feature seen in the Pixel Launcher’s recents menu, which allows users to select text and images in any app.
Mull, which is based on Firefox, but removes all the telemetry and stuff. I forget why I chose it over other versions of Firefox. Someone here on Lemmy recommended it.
Thanks! I just got Rethink setup last night. I was able to import my actual VPN into it, and it works great!
It’s working! Thanks! I got Mullvad configured inside Rethink, and blocked Gboard from the internet. I was enjoying HeliBoard, but it doesn’t have emoji search. ☹️ Also, autocorrect on HeliBoard was pretty bad. A combination of too aggressive and not aggressive enough at times. Plus the “swipe spacebar to select text” feature of HeliBoard never felt as good as Gboard.
Of course, now I can’t use the GIF feature of GBoard, which was another occasionally useful feature.
Man, does Rethink have a lot of options and settings. Definitely not for the faint of heart!
I also blocked “Speech Recognition and Synthesis from Google” which I think is used when you do voice typing. Voice typing is still working, so that’s good. It does most of it locally. Except I noticed months ago that if I have a very spotty cell connection, Voice Typing takes forever to initialize. I thought it was fully on-device at all times, but it turns out it’s not.
Anyone else know some other things I should block? I blocked Chrome because I never use it and I pretty much immediately saw it was using the Internet in the background when I enabled Rethink.
Nice! I’ll have to try it out.
Are there any system apps that are worth blocking that won’t make my phone less useful? Kind of an ambiguous question, I know. I just blocked GBoard, for one.
Oh, never mind. It uses a pseudo VPN to filter traffic, and I’m using an actual VPN, so its not compatible. I only learned this after setting up some rules and finally trying to enable it.
It’d be cool if they integrated a VPN client into the app.
I use KeePassDX’s “Magikeyboard” to type everything. I have an entry with every character in it as a custom field. My phone doesn’t have any other keyboard installed, so in order to use the keyboard you first have to unlock my database with a fingerprint.
Firewalled how? Custom ROM? Custom apk? Normal Android non-root firewall app? I’d like to know more.
That’s beautiful!
So you have a source for this claim?