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On Android, from FDroid you can install an app called Seal, which is a minimal frontend for yt-dlp. I discovered it while trying to circumvent issues Newpipe was having with some update to the YouTube API.

Unlike Newpipe forks, which can use the sponsor block API but not when downloading the video directly to your device, Seal allows you to input the custom flags available from the yt-dlp cli, so you can automatically skip annoying sponsor mentions even on your downloaded videos.

Really nice. Thanks.

I can see this being useful, especially if you could scale the space around the characters (i.e. customize the size of the keys). I also think adding more layers like with smaller ortholinear keyboards might be a good idea as well…

Hmm…gonna have to add this to the things to eventually make whenever I get around to learning kotlin/java for android dev.

Just installed it. Adjusted the settings to my liking. Very nice. Like OpenBoard, but has quite a lot of extras by comparison. Thanks for the tip.

The developer included furry porn art as part of the code base of his other browser project, Thorium. He removed it after it was discovered.

Chris Titus Tech explains the issue well enough in this video.

After the shenanigans with that dev and his other project, Thorium. No fucking thanks.

Others have already given you the summary, but if you’re interested in Brodie Robertson’s talk, going a bit in depth on the topic, here is the video.

Oh thank you so much for posting this. When Brodie Robertson covered this on his YT channel, I was so upset at how the fiasco with SimpleMobileTools played out, but also so glad somebody took over the mantle. Cheers!

Cosmic radiation could always wreak havock by simply switching a 0 to a 1. It appears The Universe is Hostile to Computers.

DuckDuckGo Lite. I get quick, no distractions search results.

I test out a few readers, but my fav is actually newsboat for the Linux terminal. gfeeds is an okay graphical reader though.

On Android I barely use curator, and when I had iphone, I liked simplerss.

Developing a community based browser engine that remains up to date with all the updates to the html, css, and javascript standards would require an immense amount of infrastructure and monetary backing. Essentially Firefox’s Spidermonkey is the closest we have.

I’d be curious if Mozilla could somehow get enough funding without Google or Microsoft or any other big tech corporate funding/influence and still keep up to date with new features and security patches. Doesn’t seem likely though.

Librewolf on Linux Desktop with NoScript, Chameleon, etc. Mull on Android mobile with similar. (Both are firefox based).

I’m on Graphene OS for mobile though, which necessitates the use of Google’s Pixel and uses a hardened Chromium based browser called Vanadium. Main dev has criticized Firefox for being insecure in the past, but still use Mull anyway…

Artix Linux (my personal distro)

Graphene OS (my phone)

NeoVim (my text editor)

LibreWolf (my browser)

ublockOrigin (my God)

Honorable mention: OpenStreetMaps

I discovered mull only about a month ago, but yeah, its great. As close to Librewolf you’ll get on mobile. A limited number of extensions work, but my favs are there. Ublock, NoScript, Decentraleyes, Dark Reader, Clear URLs. It also has access to about:config and is available on fdroid. Great mobile fork.