Of course it is easier, however, the point was that it is lazy…

I didn’t know about the gliding for special symbols and numbers. Thanks for that.

Oh no, through this article I found out about Bandcamp’s enshittification. I like that Website to obtain music…

Ay, also am using that one

Sadly, when researching problems or interests, often Redditposts have useful info.

Until they decide its opt-out or remove the option to choose altogether.

There is also the option to selfhost a Joplin server, or pay the devs for Cloud Sync.

Does Joplin do what you need?

Yes.

I do not think they are called drivers, but yes, installing the needed codecs should work. I just did not find out how to do it properly.

I did not really solve it. I looked around for a bit but found no good solution. The only thing that sort of worked was to copy the stream URL in Jellyfin and paste it into VLC Media Player, which could play the videos okay. But that was not really satisfactory for me.

In the end I installed a new OS on my PC which already came with the codecs to decode x265 preinstalled. I installed it for other reasons but it fixed also that issue and now I can play any video in the Jellyfin Media Player. I did not try if it also works in the browser. The OS I am now using is called Nobara.

I had a similar problem. For me it was because some of the videos were encoded with x265 which some client devices could not decode properly. Therefore the server had to decode them but it was not fast enough to do it.

I guess that is why on the Android device the videos are smooth, it can handle the decoding.

I went through switching recently. Anytime you log in somewhere I would change the email of that account, and integrate it i to a password manager while being at it.

Bit by bit you become more independant from Gmail.

As a bonus I also started using a service like AddyMail or SimpleLogin, so that I have different emails for different accounts. Quite easy to use.

Mullvad has it was well.

FreeTube still works flawlessly.

Just check the post of the last week or so. Feels like there are plenty about brave.

I am using metager, but am not sure what qualifies as ‘best’ as I did not do much comparison.

MetaGer for me, run by a non profit and you can choose to pay for search results to be ad-free and get more search options.

As it says also in your quote, they just don’t share IP and search term together. More detailed description from https://www.ecosia.org/privacy under “What data do you share with search results providers?”.

For example, when searching for “tree” on Ecosia we forward the following information to our partner, Bing: IP address (to a separate fraud detection server, so your search term and IP address are never sent to the same server), meta-data on your device that is necessary for the result like screen size, search term, and some settings like your country and language setting.

I mostly agree with you about wanting to use a browser that is ‘[…] secure, privacy-respecting […] innovative […] caters to needs’ etc, however I disagree that using Firefox amounts to a lost philosophical battle. I also disagree that you can simply fork chromium if Google decides to implement harmful features.

Since Chromium is dominating the browser market, most (web)developers do only take chromium compatibility into account, making other alternatives less attractive. This leads to more domination of Chromium, making people dependant on its use. Most people will not bother with looking at other Chromium browsers and will just use Chrome as they are already doing today.

At that point, Google, who contributes the most code to Chromium by far, can implement any number of harmful but profitable features into the project. Downstream browser makers would then be required to maintain their own fork if they do not want to incorporate these features, which I am not confident is economically viable.

So I do not quite understand why privacy- and monopoly-conscious people today opt for a Chromium based browser while there are perfectly good alternatives that are not primarily based on the product of a giant (ad) company like Google.