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Exactly. I’ve used ddg for more than a year and startpage for some months and it’s great to see a search engine that doesn’t suck, tries to be independent and has no problems understanding that i’m not from the us

Google collects so many data it is difficult to beat, but i was impressed seeing that Brave Search is just miles better than ddg and has way less problems understanding which language i’m using and providing localised results (i’m not from the us)

I did the same and i’ve had the override search engine option on for two months now to use it. Using Google is a no for me (except really borderline situations), startpage is good but still based on google, ddg sucks and is totally unable to provide good results for my area. I can say Brave is already better than everything else except google and the search engines that use it. The “discussions” widget that shows reddit previews makes it sometimes better than everything else and this google feature will hopefully make it the best. I don’t really like the crypto stuff and many of the ideas that guide the making of the brave browser (so i don’t use it), however they have been shipping products that are simply very good lately.

But Google Captchas aren’t any better

Those big companies can simply rely on the amount of informations they get from their own services.

Google has a service for almost everything, Amazon knows exactly what you want to buy and like google is extending to all the aspects of your life with digital services and Facebook as well has apps people spend enough time in to obtain informations about their interests. So their ad networks could work without cookies. But they also rely on fingerprinting that’s done through the ads themselves and the analytics tools almost every website has.

MacOS 12.3 just changed that and the difference is incredible. All the Apple music screens load much faster, especially the search one that previously was not just slow but also broken

While what you said is true, iOS 12 still received some security fixes, so the total support for the iphone 5s is 9 years and 8 for the 6. Critical bugs shouldn’t be that big of a threat (considering that even up to date phones are colanders.

I 1000% percent disagree. Firstly as a user I see no point in this browser at all. They should have partnered with Mozilla to stick to their commitment to privacy and to their effort to support open source projects.

Imho they don’t aim to customize the UX that much. They’ll build something like their mobile browser and push for their search engine, mail protection and whatever they’ll try to sell in the future. And we should just not trust them. So many people use browsers as they are (which I find impossible nowadays with all the ads and popups) and reading that DuckDuckGo magically protected them will be enough for them.

Instead of Electron they could have just used Chromium but that is ethically terrible and an un useful effort for them (given what I said about their intentions).

And I think you should stick to Firefox (just as I’ll do). It will be built on top of the system web view, so chromium on Windows and WebKit on macOS. It will be minimal and lack extensions, and I can’t imagine living without extensions. And if you don’t use any I recommend you to try some. I see no point in this browser, as it will basically be a Firefox Focus for desktop.

The reason Mozilla is implementing Manifest V3 is to maintain cross-browser support for extensions. There are many extensions that will work just fine and not having the new APIs on Firefox would mean just loosing them. And I’m not saying this as a Google supporter, I hate them, but we have to be objective. Also, Firefox devs are pushing forward security with better and better site isolation, cookie isolation and now with RLBox. And if they implement more stupid features like themes, it’s totally fine. People complain if Firefox has a low market share and then complain again when they implement user-friendly design things.

Here you can find many FOSS utilities: https://github.com/serhii-londar/open-source-mac-os-apps Also, check r/apphookup on reddit for discounts (every day there’s a couple iOS apps that are made free and they’re often compatible with the Mac too thanks to Catalyst). If you have an iPhone you can use the Pager app and set monitors for the subreddit to receive notifications.

Eventually you can pay for a SetApp subscription (10 whatever your value is + 3 for any additional device).

If you just opened the article, you would have read that it uses the system-provided engine, so WebKit for MacOS and eventually Microsoft-flavoured Chromium for Windows. Imho they shouldn’t waste resources on a product that no one asked in an already competitive market since they’re not adding anything new.

To block on a DNS level on iPhone and Mac I use Lockdown which is open source and lightweight. Recommend it to everyone but the initial setup is a bit long because the built in filters are too scarce.

Apple’s behaviour killed many extensions. I use [Bloquealos](https://apps.apple.com/it/app/bloquealos/id1554895615) on iOS and the rare times i use Safari on Mac, but I recommend you to try Firefox on Desktop. It’s not as efficient as Safari but it doesn’t eat your battery like chrome and with the right extensions the overall user experience gets perfect. I can’t imagine abandoning all the extensions now that i’m used to. Also container (enhanced -again- with extensions) are revolutionary.

I have a 2015 Pro and even if Safari uses less battery, I feel the same thing about Firefox. It is fast and smooth and has less bugs than Safari. However the thing that made my laptop feel cool again is the overwhelming amount of extensions available. There are so many of them and they really improved the ux. Safari has way less and most of them are commercial projects by big techs that collect datas or paid extensions by indie devs that I still can’t 100% trust because they’re closed source. Most of the extensions you find with the search bar on firefox is open source.

Microsoft said in a blog post that they’re working on Apple Silicon support (i don’t know if they already released it) and much better integration with the finder. Articles look really promising.

These MacBooks are definitely worth the money. They cost a lot but they are not overpriced.

You don’t have to consider just the CPU and GPU but the whole SoC. CPU is impressive and GPU is good, but for standard workloads some PCs may give you slightly better performances (on the GPU side), at the cost of needing the power adapter to show that. However, for some specific workloads (especially the ones involving ProRaw video) the custom modules in it make it perform better not only than a Mac Pro, but than every other machine in the market. There is also the Neural Engine that could be more important in the future.

You may not need those modules, but it seems like we are forgetting this are laptops with screens, inputs and more. These machines have one of the best screens, with high DPI, high refresh rate but most important the miniLED technology which brings true HDR. And that’s something very pricey.

Far from defending Apple, they could sell this laptops for less and we would all be happier, but at the end of the day these machines are worthy in every aspect (specific cases aside).

I agree with the ones below who say that it’s because of economy of scale, but I also think they made this choice because we’ll see more at the WWDC and in the next years. Apple keeps saying the iPad is a computer, when in fact it isn’t. But the iPad is capable of many things the Mac can’t do. It has the pencil, it can become more portable when used alone, it has 5G, cameras, the lidar and more. As long as they can sell both, they’ll keep doing it, but I think at some point 13” Macs (at least the Air and the cheapest Pro) will be replaced by the iPad, when it will have a better software. After the Apple Silicon announcement many choices started making sense, and in a similar way this iPad will be a way to test in which direction the computer market will take.