β² @hankg@friendica.myportal.social: In the past month I started noticing a hard push of ads for the Opera browser. Timely that @OSNews highlighted this story. God they make the people at Brave sound like down right saintly good Samaritans. As @Thom Holwerda wrote, just use Firefox already. #opera#brave#firefox
Also, #Vivaldi now has its own #Mastodon instance. I think #Brave Browser had an unofficial instance at one time, and #Mozilla intends to open theirs early in 2023.
I'm still not "there" yet, but I am doing some #PHP stuff. Maybe I'll be able to help make !GNUsocial and #Friendica competitive candidates for $ORGANIZATION deploying their own #Fediverse presence.
AFAIK, #Brave search uses its own crawler and index, as does #Gigablast. And let us not forget #YaCy. I intend to host a YaCy peer-to-peer search instance on its own VPS (well, shared with a #Searx instance, which will use it)
@billstclair I don't suggest that you reimplement your entire app in HTML. I'm suggesting that you provide a single JS-free landing page. For an example, visit the pixelfed.social login page, with JS off or blocked. As you say, browsers (like #Brave) are gradually adding controls that #MakeJavascriptOptional, and many more people are using script control plugins like #NoScript or #LibreJS. So web makers need to get used to not being able to run scripts on a visitors PC without opt-in.