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I’ve always been a Firefox fan, and I used it exclusively for quite some time. However, I had to switch back to Brave after they blocked clipboard managers from seeing what you copy in private windows, and there was no way to turn it off. I know about profiles and containers, but this is something I need for my workflow. Now that Brave has proper containers, I’m running out of reasons to miss Firefox other than my ideals.

I wish they had an always up to date guide on what each about:config option does.

You can please some of the people, some of the time.

Adobe keeps me on macOS, otherwise I’d love to use something like Ubuntu as a daily driver.

Looking up how much things used to cost? I too like being depressed.

I have, but very rarely. I could count on one hand how often I’ve needed to dig back more than half a decade ago.

Back when I used Gmail I just kept everything personal and work related but when I moved away and started paying for email storage I took a different approach. It didn’t make sense for me to pay considerably more storage for something I almost never use.

I ended up backing up all of my emails outside of the last 5 years and stored them on an offline drive where I can reference them as eml files if I ever need it.

Going forward once a year I’ll export and purge the oldest year in my account.

Yes and they’re very transparent about it.

https://mullvad.net/en/help/partnerships-and-resellers

The way I initially read this headline my brain thought that this privacy extension was going to stop spying on users. Confused for a moment there.

They say they'll support MV2 "as long as possible".

Damn, he pulled a “Secure Custom Fields” on Automattic.

Wake me up when it's 26.1 o'clock.

Yeah - honestly - if it's not Mullvad or iVPN I'm out.

I always thought the feature sounded interesting - but - Nord just isn’t a company that screams trustworthy to me, so I never bothered to try it. I’d definitely never store my passwords with them. I’m surprised that’s not their least used feature.

Last time I looked into it — last year - the only one I found was Temporary Containers and from what I read the developer unfortunately passed away.

Glad to see someone forked it though, I might give that a try again.

I am, yes. It worked as I described up until I think October of last year.

I’m logging in and out of client accounts - often for services that don’t do delegate access - so private windows work nice for me to make sure that I’m always cleared out of what I was working on before changing to a different project. Often I copy things in private windows that aren’t secrets, it just happens to be how I used the feature.

Containers and Profile are great - but - I’m not trying to have 50+ of them at work, much easier to flip open a private window.

I acknowledge my usecase is unusual and for most I think the feature makes sense - I just want to be able to turn it off, an about:config would be fine.

Does Firefox still block clipboard history apps from accessing private windows with no way to turn it off? Haven't used Firefox since that change.

I'd say that's lucky. I'm using "Masked Email" on Fastmail with a personal domain and I still find that I get blocked from signups from time to time. I assume they're looking for some sort of pattern?

Yep, Safari blocked it as well.

If only Adobe gave a shit about Linux.

Reddit seems to shadow ban anyone, anywhere, anytime these days. No reason needed.

Yeah, I was using my own (used Pobox for SMTP in Gmail) — admittedly that made the transition easier.

What bothered me about Gmail was that it was central to my life and if something were to happen and they locked my account they have zero support.

With that out of the way I feel perfectly happy with FM — no need to go further down the paranoia hole.

I started the get itchy about so much of my life sitting on Google about 5 years ago, so I decided to take the leap to Fastmail and haven’t looked back.

Didn’t need to do anything special for the migration. The in house importer they offer pulled over 80GB in a day and I was set from there.

Fastmail isn’t going to give you end to end encryption - but - I think just shedding a major Google service is a massive win privacy-wise.

I remember briefly looking into Proton but the search was awful.

Still, I’d imagine the company would still have to comply to the laws where they’re based not where the location of the hardware is.

Familiar with Seedboxes but do you really get off worry free just because the hardware exists in a different country (probably on leaseweb)? Wouldn’t it matter where the company was based itself or is the biggest hope that you’ve become too much of a pain in the ass to deal with?

Same. I’ve been using it exclusively on macOS and iOS for a few years now. When you first open it they do show you all those features but as ochronous said you can completely disable them. If they forced crypto and AI on me I’d be out in a flash.

Because “Lately I use Zen” isn’t as catchy of a title.

I work at home 99% of the time but occasionally it's nice to get out of the house and see the world of the living.

Little overpriced but I've found Loop Earplugs to help working in coffee shops, etc. Muffles out most of the sound but not everything, enough to focus but not fly off your seat if someone taps your shoulder.

Fool me...twice?