burgundymyr

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'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] burgundymyr@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

This is sadly a much more likely scenario

Mozilla tells extension developers to get ready to go mobile • The Register in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] burgundymyr@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

TIL, that's a great tip! cheers

Mozilla tells extension developers to get ready to go mobile • The Register in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] burgundymyr@sh.itjust.works -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I replaced the YouTube app on my SO's phone with a Brave Browser YouTube link (Brave includes both features out of the box) because having to sit through ads when they wanted to show me a video was driving me nuts...

I use Firefox because of tamper monkey, buy Brave is my go to easy solution for friends so I don't have to explain about installing extras.

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Does anyone wish they had a pet but also know that taking care of a pet is too much executive functioning for them right now? (sh.itjust.works)
 

It's sad 😞

Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity on the platform in c/technology@lemmy.ml
[–] burgundymyr@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is the message they are sending to users:

Hey u/username,

We will soon begin rolling out changes to Reddit's User settings. It is getting a refresh that includes changes to ad personalization, privacy preferences, and location settings.

As part of these changes, we are retiring a setting that you have previously turned on that limited how we used your activity from the Reddit platform to personalize ads. We have replaced the setting with a new option to select categories of ads that you may not wish to see.

More details are available in our announcement and help center.

These changes are rolling out starting today and you may see the changes over the next few days.

I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app. in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] burgundymyr@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

Seriously email your IT and/or privacy team at the university level. I work at a university and that would be removed ASAP for sharing PII. If you're in the US or UK it's a major violation of your privacy. Unfortunately most IT offices aren't involved in many of the decisions and many of the people making those decisions are complete ignorant to the situation.

Why do you use firefox? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] burgundymyr@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

It's by far the best mobile browser that let's you run tampermonkey and uBlock on Android and it's not close. I haven't found an add-on that let's me run video/audio in the background, so until then Brave stays installed so that running YouTube with no ads and the phone locked is an option.

Aside from that, Firefox gives fantastic customization options, runs well, and is less vulnerable to attacks specifically because it has a smaller market share and it makes more sense to target Chromium based browsers.

Over a quarter of Lemmy users use Sync (based on a poll) in c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world
[–] burgundymyr@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's crazy to me how small the Jereboa usage is. It didn't collect or share data and has a great interface. What are these other apps giving that makes you want to use them? Genuinely curious on what I'm missing out on.