substantial price hike

it’s €50 more expensive than the FP4 with the same RAM/storage configuration on its release (€650 fot 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage).

it’s called Embrace-Extend-Extinguish and yes, that’s what people are concerned about.

but… you’re already in here.

Neither is Kbin, which doesn’t even have mobile apps

not everything needs a mobile app, sheesh. both kbin and Lemmy have great mobile websites.

but no one uses Mastodon and also it’s so haaaaaaaaaaaaaard

man, I wish. my bank’s app used to have its own built-in contactless payment option (and it would even appear in Android’s “default apps” section as a payment handler!) but then they moved to Google Pay “due to a popular demand” :/

or use Consent-O-Matic to automatically reject all the non-essential cookies https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/

because it gained popularity back when mobile plans didn’t include free SMS, back in the feature phone era.

…bookmark it in your browser?

from https://beehaw.org/comment/80030:

uBO, of course. note: you guys don’t need ClearURLs with this list added.
LibRedirect for automatically opening Youtube, Twitter, TikTok etc. links in their privacy-focused front-ends. I just make sure to disable all the instances by esmailelbob since he’s a little homophobic shithead
Buster for automatic captcha solving
Consent-O-Matic automatically clicks through cookies banner to deny all the cookies that aren’t necessary, which I like better than just hiding the cookie banner
Redirect AMP to HTML because fuck AMP and fuck Google

if you replace the “youtube.com” with “piped.video” in the URL, you get all the videos with no ads, no tracking, and no distractions.

add the IzzyOnDroid repo URL to your client: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/repo

“hey its me ur brother”

Alternate Player for Twitch still doesn’t let any ads through https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/twitch_5/

we should have collectively realized way earlier

some people have, but whenever you’d mention it, you’d be met with “lol take the tinfoil hat off”, “but we’re already using [for-profit platform] why would we move when everyone’s here” and “but it’s haaaaaaard”.

NEAT

A word on reddit, blackouts, & effective protesting: https://piped.video/watch?v=U06rCBIKM5M

wish some reddit mods participating in the blackout watched it.

https://reddark.untone.uk/

it’s not really open source - only the modifications are. the base is still the normal, closed source client.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys