Isn’t Firefox open source? So isn’t it possible that anyone could see the changes being made even in the nightly versions? I’m not a programmer so forgive my ignorance.

how did I not know about this??

The first thing I do whenever I install anything is to go through the settings. To turn off trackers, analytics and explore the accessibility features.

As for “supporting the dev” I don’t really get this concept.

It can be both.

• You love the app, you don’t want it discontinued; you pay to continue the developement.
• The developers have a solid business model without any shady practices and have such an awesome free version that you don’t feel the need to pay to upgrade to premium features; then you may pay just to just your gratitude. Niagara Launcher & MixPlorer are similar examples of ad-free FREE versions.

and for promotions you could use !newcommunities@lemmy.world

The Moto X (2014)/(2nd gen) was such an awesome phone with a solid build.

I bought it in 2015 at a huge discount instead of the One Plus 1. I used it till the end of 2019 until the battery gave in & the USB port became useless.

Except for the smaller battery size & ok-ish camera, everyone had praises for that phone. My favourite part was it’s shape & software.

It received the Android 5 & 6 updates even before summer Nexus phones. And the updates were stable. Times were wild back then.

Google, the poor multi-billion dollar scrappy startup that maintains Android, made a payment app that has one notification setting, “Google Pay”. So all the ads, promotions, everything.

Amazon is another poor startup that does that on their Android app.

For me it’s their constant Credit Card upsell notifications.

I’m not sure there exist any.

Last time I checked, this was actually the biggest criticism Google recieved. They were pushing RCS on Apple, yet keeping it proprietarily only available on Google Messages.

Maybe it has changed. I don’t know.

Latest update I heard was that they made it ON by default in Google Messages.

I guess the iPhone sales numbers in the US are keeping them awake. I personally think Apple will only bend if they are forced somehow by the US government, like the way EU did with type-C.

I’m trying this. Is very smooth!

Can you eli5 what’s that?

I’ve been trying this for 2 days now. I would say this works. The simple, boring thumbnails do not trick my brain into clicking the video.

if I lose the patch of my YT again

You can export/import:

1. Applied patches from ReVanced managers: Settings > Export patches selection
2. In-app ReVanced settings: Profile Picture > Settings > ReVanced Extended > Miscellaneous > Import/Export > Export settings
3. SponsorBlock profile: Profile Picture > Settings > Sponsor Block > (scroll all the way down) > Import/Export > (select and copy all the text) > (save this copied text in a text file OR pin it in your keyboard's clipboard) > (Now Go to new app and paste in Import)

I switched from ReVanced Extended (RVX) to ReX using my exported settings. Doing it this way makes switching APKs a breeze.

Alternative Thumbnails is a feature available in the latest ReX patches.

ReX is a fork of the discontinued Revanced Extended project, which in itself was a fork of the official Revanced project.

I applied these patches using the Revanced Extended Manager on YouTube 18.33.37

Screenshots:

Here it is in action:

I did know know that DeArrow was a paid service.

OffTopic: Why is it called A/B testing? I’ve mentioned a few times in the Revanced communities.

@JetSetDorito & @ArtVandelay

DeArrow is a similar extension from the creator of SponsorBlock. It’s suggestions for the title and thumbnail are crowdsourced as opposed to being randomised in the case of ClickBait Remover.

Nice! UnHook removes YouTube recommended videos, related videos, comments, video suggestions wall, homepage recommendations, trending tab & comments

There are some awesome suggestions made by people here. Never heard before extensions that may come handy someday, that would otherwise require third party apps to do the same task.

Also, save the following two posts as well. I didn’t notice similar posts were already created earlier.

1. Best Firefox Extensions? by MokMokFIsh

2. What are your favourite add-ons for Firefox? by t0fr

Hmm. I need to try containers then.

You should go through the suggestions made on this post. They are great. Maybe, sometime later I’ll create a list and add it to this post’s description later.