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doublepepperoni [none/use name] @hexbear.net

1y ago

The coolest new Hexbear feature is the INSTALL HEXBEAR pop-up that sits on top of my inbox

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Delet chrome install firefax
- Show me the firefax
- firefox is dogshit on mobile
  
  imagine not having adblocking on mobile
  
  I use firefox focus for basically everything on android. It hasn't skipped a beat since release and has all the adblocking and anti-tracking built in.
  Feel the breeze in your hair and step away from chrome
  
  Firefox is great on Android. When was the last time you tried Firefox for Android? It has had major overhauls to its underlying code. To be clear, Firefox on iOS is a totally different story because on iOS it isn't actually Firefox due to Apple requiring all third party browsers on iOS to be Safari running a UI skin rather than having their own engine.
  I use it instead of Chrome because unlike Chrome it lets me run all the add-ons. Since it lets me run add-ons like Ublock Origin and already just doesn't load a lot of the JavaScript tracking code websites use, it also is more responsive than Chrome, pages load faster, and uses less memory. Most importantly Firefox on Android let's me run the Dark Reader addon, so websites don't look like shit and browsing uses less battery.
  Brave isn't a legitimate alternative even though it allows add-ons because it's not just Chromium based but is a Peter Theil backed user data harvesting and cryptocurrency scheme that just lies to their users with privacy theater bullshit.
  
  Apps not having adblock is dogshit.

Install Hexbear or you're a revisionist
- Why would I need a separate program to look at a website
  
  It's a link to Hexbear that opens in the browser from an icon on your homescreen, all browsers have this (like on Firefox for me in the pic below). Idk why your browser is asking you to do it though, lol
  
  It's a PWA. On Android it's just a bookmark to the website in Chrome but with some extra features. I use Mastodon that way, it's way better than any of the apps

Well? Install hexbear

:hexbear-chapochat: Install Hexbear                  Install
hexbear.net

you should do it, it's just like BonziBuddy but with a communist bear that warns you whenever you wander into an online space tainted by liberal revisionism
- oh man, flashback to installing BonziBuddy and getting yelled at by my dad
  
  Anyone who says anything bad about BonziBuddy is a :lib:

What browser is that? It's weirdly pushy for a PWA.
- Looks like chrome. Its generally very pushy to install pwa's
  
  Software needs to putting shit overtop of whatever is on your screen for anything that doesn't demand immediate attention unless it was deliberately initiated by the user.
  I actually like that it gives some indication that you can "install" a site when it has a PWA, but there is no goddamn need to block the main content for that.
  There are so many better ways of doing this:
  Remove useless fucking home button that functions almost exactly like the "New Tab" button for 95% of users. Then expand the settings icon in the URL bar into an "Install PWA" chip.
  Recolor the overflow menu icon to match your system's accent color (or just blue) and put a little alert dot over it. Then have it be the first option in the overflow menu.
  Don't overlay the website with a popup, but expand the topbar down, shifting the content window below without obscuring it. Better yet, slide in similarly from the bottom, so it doesn't shift the entire page content down.
  This behavior could be reused for any of the things Chromium-based browsers shove in your face. Reader mode, permission requests, download completion notifications, etc. could all use these mechanisms instead of getting in your way. Modern software is so antagonistic to users.

This is a feature of your browser. Hexbear/lemmy is able to be "installed" as a pwa: a progresskve web application. Your phone's browser still runs the website, but it allows for more local storage features (iirc) and for the website to appear more app like to the user.
- to elaborate: this is a good feature because it provides an alternative to installing "official apps". majority of these being proprietary data vacuums sending all kinds of weird telemetry like what angle you hold your phone at to godknows who.
  so for example instead of installing corporate apps, go to its website in the browser and "install" it as illustrated. You can use the mobile version of the website but it has an icon in your launcher and the browser interface is not available. It doesn't have the full amount of access to your device that a regular app does, but it has more than a website would. For example you can use "share" to send something to a PWA (if it was created properly). Whereas if you just have hexbear.net loaded up in a browser tab you can't "share" from another app that way. PWAs can even work offline.
  https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web_apps/Guides/What_is_a_progressive_web_app
- desktop gang
  
  I only use smol bean applets uwu

yes install hexbear into my Brak thussy
- Brakloaca?
  
  how did you know

Android user located

GOOD thread I will now install Firefox, Ublock and Hexbear thanks comrades

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