airglow

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[–] airglow@lemmy.world 34 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The paper does not recognize fluoride as a neurotoxin in its current application in Europe:

Overall, despite the remaining uncertainties, and based on the totality of evidence the present review does not support the presumption that fluoride should be considered as a human developmental neurotoxicant at current exposure levels in European countries.

[–] airglow@lemmy.world 31 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The article you linked explicitly concludes:

Overall, despite the remaining uncertainties, and based on the totality of evidence the present review does not support the presumption that fluoride should be considered as a human developmental neurotoxicant at current exposure levels in European countries.

[–] airglow@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

(and possibly Snap)

I hope they exclude Snap from the default installation. Don't want an OS with built-in support for Canonical's closed source app store service when Flatpak is decentralized and FOSS on the server side.

[–] airglow@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Bypass Paywalls Clean removed the paywall on this article for me on Firefox for Android.

[–] airglow@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hey, I think you're totally right to challenge a statistic when it looks questionable. Censuswide didn't release the full data publicly, and the survey was commissioned by the Ghostery ad blocker, so there's reason to suspect that the data is biased.

I trust the YouGov data more, since YouGov is also a credible pollster and the data is being provided as market research data for businesses. However, since I don't subscribe to their data service, I don't have details of the methodology here, either.

[–] airglow@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Frankly, I'm not sure about the quality of the Censuswide survey.

Market data from YouGov Global Profiles shows that 51-52% of people globally (in "48 markets") use ad blocking on at least 1 device. That percentage is 45-46% for people in the US.

My point is that when a significant proportion of internet users have ad blockers, they're not just niche tools anymore.

[–] airglow@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Mull has defaults that improve privacy at the cost of performance and website compatibility. They maintain a list of changes that you can reverse through about:config. If Mull seems slow for you, consider re-enabling the JavaScript JIT.

[–] airglow@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Over half of all Americans use an ad blocker. It's time to recognize that average users do block ads.

[–] airglow@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Most types of ads can be blocked with uBlock Origin, while only some kinds of paywalls can be skipped with Bypass Paywalls Clean. Ads are the most privacy invasive monetization solution and with ad blocking becoming more common, I don't think ads are a sustainable way to fund content in the future. Still, I would prefer to see voluntary subscription and donation options rather than hard paywalls.

[–] airglow@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Tusky has been working very well for me on Android. There's also Ice Cubes for iOS. Both are free and open source.

[–] airglow@lemmy.world 56 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Any details on that? The full uBlock Origin works well on mobile and I don't see how a lite version with reduced blocking effectiveness could be more useful.

[–] airglow@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That's not the worst possible scenario, I'd love to see the Snap Store completely replaced with decentralized FOSS alternatives. Any scenario in which the Snap Store takes market share from decentralized FOSS alternatives is considerably worse.

Also, who said I wouldn't use proprietary apps? I refuse to use Snap because Flatpak and other FOSS application packaging solutions that aren't locked to a store controlled by a single for-profit company already serve my needs. I don't have any objection to using proprietary apps that don't have alternatives that meet my needs.

 

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