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

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.

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

Anyone who says anything bad about BonziBuddy is a :lib:

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:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

desktop gang

I only use smol bean applets uwu

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