what’s a bookmark? i have 400 tabs
How is your computer still alive?
Most modern browsers will hang a tab rather than keep it alive if it hasn’t been used in a while.
fox is correct and also those tabs i havent opened in months or years don’t get loaded on session resume either. maybe someday i’ll finish watching that david harvey lecture
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These MOFO’s have really REALLY jumped the shark.
Jumped the shark? They’ve chopped it up and turned it into sushi.
As people have said, this is fake, but why would you keep any important data with Google anyway?
People keep saying this is fake, but I just received this email today on another site lol that’s annoying
It’s fake in that this is about shared collections, not just your regular bookmarks as implied.
You also can’t share pirate material on YouTube, can you?
Here’s the print from my mail. And that is a bookmark from my mobile device, that website is not mine.
Is it maybe about items in this? https://www.google.com/save
I have plenty of links in my bookmarks that google doesn’t like, haven’t received any email. I do not use the “save” feature though…
In another capture, it says that the link is hidden for others but also for the current user.
Not on firefox they’re not
Op you’re so easily fooled
Google scares me
Fake, as that site is brand new and has nothing on it.
I just received that email today on a ligh novel reading site. It’s real.
Now we know we’ve reached parity with Twitter, we have people sharing misinformation!
Check Internet Archive. It was a torrent site.
Fake, as that site is brand new and has nothing on it.
what site is brand new?
I think they meant the Kickass Torrents (KAT) link. It was taken down in 2016, but it looks like it’s back by the original people that were running it.
Google has plenty of skeletons in their closet. OP didn’t have to make up new ones.
Internet will internet though I guess
I am so incredibly sick of this intrusive digital dystopia.
A natural result of unchecked capitalism
And here I am perfectly happy with using Edge.
Might want to consider switching to a gecko based browser just to stop this shit from spreading
It’s not like this is Chromium’s fault.
conaider firefox
Is this an old screenshot? The email looks like a screenshot of a screenshot, of a screenshot, etc.
fake, visit the site, there is nothing there.
There used to be things there
First day on the world wide web, eh?
That’s not now the internet works. There was something there. See: https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/katcr.co
There is nothing on katcr.co and today is the second time someone posted that url, bot
How’s the internetting going, champ? Did you figure out how the wayback machine works?
Ok, so you are actually new to the internet. I’ll explain, human to human, human.
A domain name like reddit.com or katcr.co is a registration someone gets for a period of time, at least 1 year but sometimes more than a year. One year, a user can purchase katcr.co and put up their personal website, because their name is Kat Crosby, and they are a company - katcr.co fits so they buy it and put up a site for a year or two. Life happens and they abandon the site. The domain becomes available again. Someone purchases katcr.co and makes a cookie business for a few years, abandoning the site. Someone else buys it later when it’s available and makes a bittorrent site out of it, runs it for a few years. the domain gets siezed and they can no longer use that domain. The katcr.co domain becomes available again. no one buys it.
Someone said they used to go to katcr.co years ago, someone else chimes in and says “that site doesn’t exist, you’re a liar”, and then someone with more understanding of the internet sends an archive.org link.
Why archive.org? It’s the only site that does this thing.
What is the thing it does? It will, and has over the years visited websites and saved snapshots of it. Archiving it, if you will. You can then go to web.archive.org and enter the domain name of any site and it will send you to the link you’ve been given a few times. This link is to a page that shows all the times archive.org has captured a snapshot of that link. It allows you to view that page (usually just text, usually missing a lot of content like images and external files) as it was at that time.
In this case, the existence of the link immediately disproves your argument.
In other words, you’re entirely wrong. Both about katcr.co being fake because it’s currently not online, and also about me being a bot.
There is nothing there, but there was. Just check Wayback Machine, for example here from 2018. Whether bot post or not, it’s entirely plausible that the screenshot is real. Bookmarks don’t magically disappear when the site they point to turns to a placeholder page.
Edit: Wayback Machine seems to have some stability problems right now, you might have to try again if you get a connection error.
Good thing I’ve been using Raindrop.io to manage my bookmarks for years because I used to switch browsers so often. I’ve settled on Firefox for the most part, but am looking forward to Arc on Windows.
I’ve started using arc on Mac and I can’t go back. Hopeful that it gets released on windows soon.
Can you tell me the appeal of Arc? I have it, and I’ve used it, but I just can’t seem to “get it”.
I use it at work and it’s simplified a lot of things. On Mac I use different desktop spaces for different apps. So it put a lot of my apps onto one screen instead of 3. I put Spotify, my project management software, and my browser on one screen. So it simplified my workflow in that way.
I also like the different spaces that you can setup. So I have one space for general work tabs, stock imagery websites, and then inspiration websites. All while keeping my 6 most used websites at the top. So really I like how it’s rearranged my bookmarks. Also a fan of its Split View management. I know I could just drag a tab out in chrome or whatever. But this will automatically size them nicely.
Overall I could see it not being very useful if you just use a browser for checking email or one or two sites. But it excels at managing a lot of tabs.
Edit: One last thing I love is the auto tab delete after 12 hours (you can change the time or turn it off). I love being able to just spam tabs and come back the next day and have it all clean and fresh.
Is there a self-hosted version or alternative? This looks solid, but I’ve been trying to self host as much as possible
Here you go, comrade:
https://awesome-selfhosted.net/tags/bookmarks-and-link-sharing.html
I chose Linkding because it’s simple to set up, I’m looking forward to Omnivore when it’s a bit more easy to self-host.
doing the Lord’s work out here, cheers
vi ~/.config/qutebrowser/quickmarks
Jesus just stop using Google. I registered my own domains (in plural yes) and nowadays I’m using them with iCloud, but I could easily change my entire emails from provider with a simple dns change.
For browser I advise using Firefox, but if you don’t like its performance Brave it’s also a good choice. (Though both have some shit going on behind curtains still far better than Google).
For password management just use either Bitwarden, Proton Pass or 1Password. It’s easy not to use Google to store your data, there’s a lot of competitors for what they do.
how did you register them genuinely asking.
i would also recommend keepass
I use my own domains for email. So basically I can just use whatever mail service that supports custom domains. iCloud Plus, Proton Mail and Tutanota all support it. If I’m done with iCloud I can just switch away from it by changing DNS settings…
Yeah I also use KeePass.
It’s as simple as buying them (mind you that it’s a yearly payment) on a domain platform such as Namecheap or Porkbun.
Then using them requires some setup depending on what you use. I use mine with Protonmail + SimpleLogin and they have a good guide on how to set it up.
I also recommend this.
Buy your own domain, set auto renew and if possible put money in the account. Make sure to set up a recovery account that does not use this domain, as losing access to the domain means you lose your recovery account.
Use an independent email provider with your domain, so you can leave any time but also they’ll have real customer support. I don’t recommend hosting your own, it will be hard to build up a non-spam reputation.
Don’t use a password manager bundled with your os or browser, that just locks you in. It’s convenient, but be wary of our enshitifying world.
Make sure you have an off-site backup and an on-site backup as well, if you have a house fire you don’t want to lose all your data. iCloud/Dropbox aren’t a full backup solution, but they’re pretty good.
If your bank supports it, put your 2factor emergency methods in a safe deposit box. If you go passwordless, get an extra yubikey and put it in your safe deposit box.
Don’t use Brave, it is a mess and sketchy as hell. They have been selling copyrighted material and even injected their own affiliate link when users browsed to Binance.
I do agree with the other parts! It is not that difficult to move away from Google!
They have been selling copyrighted material
Source? I don’t use it just curious.
It came to me in a dream. A cat told me. Your mom.
How do you live your life? https://www.technadu.com/brave-browser-takes-back-controversial-affiliate-code-injection/104177/#:~:text=More specifically%2C Brave was automatically injecting affiliate code,to being an opt-in choice for the user.This is the top Post on DuckDuckgo. You could also have googled it.
I didn’t ask YOU for anything, and I’m not opening your shitty link.
Why not? It was actually a good read. Here’s another: https://www.spacebar.news/p/stop-using-brave-browser
Being toxic af while I didn’t even ask him for any source at all.
Yeah, fair. That was uncalled for. “Just search it yourself” never sits right with me, either.
I took a look at that article. You don’t use a browser because it:
- Runs ads to support the company
- Disagree with the co-found point of views, worse, that they made a 1000$ donation to something he believed in?
A company like Brave is composed of a lot of people with different views. Being able to live in society and accepting each others views it’s what makes democracy … democracy.
Don’t see any valid point to not use Brave in the article provided.
No, it’s perfectly good and healthy to utterly and completely deplatform and disenfranchise homophobes.
different views
The opinion that LGBT+ people shouldn’t have rights is not a valid opinion, and it’s dismissive to simply categorize it as a “different view.” Democracy means we have the choice to reject anyone who espouses such an anti-human worldview, and it is categorically and objectively good to do so.
Good to know you don’t give a fuck about LGBT+ people enough not to use a shitty chromium browser, though. Blocked.
You asked for a source, on a forum.
If you ask for a source, you get a source.
Brave is built on chromium…
Modified with loads of privacy features. Just putting the suggestion out there since some people have trouble with Firefox in some sites.
“Some sites give people trouble with Firefox” is more like it. Spoof the user-agent header, and those sites that “work better with Chrome” suddenly work just fine.
Still gives google a lot of power to decide how the web will function in the future. That some websites don’t work in Firefox is a symptom of exactly that problem
I never understood why these browsers never choose Firefox as a base to their new browsers… Technically you should be able no?
It’s something about how the Gecko engine is built IIRC. I don’t get all the details but TLDR Chromium is a lot easier to abstract into other programs as a plugin and engine and Gecko is harder.
the trouble isn’t with Firefox, it’s with those sites and the developers of that site that can’t be botheted to do it properly and cross-browser - it’s still a thing and a sane requirement.
I mean with Safari I can understand since Apple can’t be bothered to make a decent engine with all the web standards. But Firefox has all of that so they’re just plain retarded.
I’ll switch immediately.
Switch now
immediately
ĭ-mē′dē-ĭt-lē
adverb
Without delay.
Is this just chrome? Or does this affect all chromium browsers? And yes, I already use FF, but I also use Brave for when FF doesn’t work.
It’s about synced bookmarks. Do any browsers besides Chrome sync through Google?
Which technically speaking makes sense as those are Google-stored data referencing illegal data. You can’t store actual ripped movies in Google drive either. Just no browser has decided to pull the trigger on this policy before since it’s so much work to collect this data unless you’re an actual web browser company as well. (So I guess this might be coming to Edge in the future)
Google literally crawls the web and serves piracy pages as search results, complete with keywords and all. How hard is it to just… Leave personal bookmark data alone? Encrypt it for the user and let it be? What the hell does Google have to be moderating personal saved links for?
You literally can store ripped movies on Google Drive, (but you cant share them on it)
It’s not about normal synced bookmarks in your browser, see other comment.
