Xanthrax

joined 2 years ago
[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

Yeah, your data is the trade away. I'm trying to fork it rn and bake in the extensions.

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (11 children)

It's just a single install. But fair point. This allows you to create playlists, though.

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I also use it to listen to podcasts/ lore videos without having my screen on when I'm falling asleep. It's also nice for driving. If you make a playlist and have an ad blocker, it WILL continue on to the next song.

I'm actually thinking of forking Firefox and making a lite version mostly geared towards playing YouTube content without ads and without restrictions.

 

It can be a bit buggy at times, but when it comes to just playing music with the screen locked, it's perfect.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-background-play-fix/

Edit: I forgot to also mention that ad blocker extensions make sailing the seas on mobile much more manageable. Extentions, in general, have been a really nice addition.

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I agree. I just worked there when I was younger. I no longer work there.

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

They do, but service providers don't like selling them. There isn't as much of a return on smaller/ dumb/ cheap phones. I used to work at spectrum, and we'd speak of the cheap phones in hushed tones like they were the boogeyman. It felt horrible because I was using my cheap android while selling people iPhone 15s.

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

What if you stored the data in an unregulated country? Check out their career page.

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Why wouldn't they? Especially after the lasafare opinions expressed by their CEO.

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I worked for multiple non-profits that made a profit. That's not how this works. It's not the function, it's the cost.

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

It's also worth pointing out the fact that they offer free services; most likely, your data is their real product. That's to be expected with, say, a social media platform, but a VPN? That is a HUGE security threat. I'm just waiting for the proton security leak. The amount of sketchy data will be choice.