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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • Because the “you wouldn’t steal a car” nonsense scares a lot of people off

    Because some people want to support the creators of content but digital downloads from iTunes or whatever are more expensive than getting a month of a streaming service

    Because there is a level of convenience of having thousands of hours of content at your fingertips without having to store content locally or finding it on a “dodgy” website. Setting up torrents / usenet is more work than giving someone your credit card number

    Because a lot of people don’t know where to find content and if they did they don’t know the difference between a 480p avi vs a 2160p HDR DV MKV and get confused with torrents and file formats and how to get them on their TV.

    Because - at the moment - the ads aren’t that bad, I got one ad at the start and one episode in the middle of an episode of Gen V - obviously they’ll add more until it’s as bad as cable but they’re not there yet.











  • As a web developer the problem I have is there are issues with all the browsers that are available today:

    • Chrome and Edge are owned by big companies and report god-knows-what back to their motherships whilst constantly pushing their own services
    • Firefox uses its own rendering engine so it can have some Firefox specific bugs / differences that might be missed, plus doesn’t have support for some of the extensions that you want
    • Safari doesn’t have windows or extensions support
    • Opera is full of random features and promotional bumpf that I don’t care about and have to turn off
    • Vivaldi is a complicated beast that takes a bunch of work to set up, it also includes a mail client, calendar and feed reader in the browser which I don’t need.
    • DuckDuckGo doesn’t have any extension support at all
    • Arc is really fiddly and doesn’t always behave how I want it to (bookmarks behave like tabs for some reason)
    • Brave pulls things like this and is also full of crypto/wallet type stuff, plus you can’t even change your home page.

    I just want a simple Chromium browser that doesn’t require me to turn a bunch of shit off, is private by default and supports extensions, I don’t think it’s too much to ask!