The 400$ one will also contribute to e-waste.

Just saying.

Or simply install a physical button.

Speak for yourself. I intend to live forever.

Chromium - and thus Google - dominates the Internet way too much. This causes trouble and has the potential to cause a lot more trouble in the future.

This has been discussed many times before, of course.

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🤦‍♂️ Duh. This took a while. Mistook ALT+F4 for ALT+ENTER.

😂 I’m so slow!

I just launch Firefox with this option:

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -ProfileManager

Always launches with the profile selector. Then install a profile switcher extension. Done.

Unfortuntaley 1) it doesn’t really come out of the box and 2) the extension must be installed on every single profile. Not the most obvious or user friendly.

Or double click into the picture.

Here is the reference.

Better overwrite with a message than delete. And do it twice to be safe. That seems to make it harder for Reddit to restore what you don’t want there.

The “wanting” seems to be the issue. Both with the consumer and the producer.

Ideas for alternatives

As long as we buy and companies sell, change will be extremely slow. Probably too slow.

Waxed paper, maybe? There has to be something better than this.

Not sure if that’s OT, but what stops such companies from packing with paper? All this plastic is just… 😦

They eat them. But there is no need to do so. It’s a tradition.

Source: Britannica.

This source also highlights the hypocrisy of saying that there’s a focus on animal welfare.

I stand corrected. I misread the last paragraph.

I edited my comment accordingly.

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“Whaling in the Faroe Islands is conducted in accordance with international law and globally recognized principles of sustainable development,” according to the island’s government website. “It is sustainable and fully regulated, with a strong emphasis on animal welfare, and a requirement today for participants to be licensed to use the mandatory methods and equipment. Whale drives only take place in bays that are officially approved for the purpose, and only schools of whales found in close proximity to land, usually within one nautical mile, are driven ashore.”

The fact that it has to be justified in this way shows that something isn’t right. Just because something is legal doesn’t make it right.

Also, what kind of nonsense is this: “with a strong emphasis on animal welfare”. It’s a species hunted and killed by the hundreds! What kind of welfare is seen there!?

Humans’ way of justifying their dubious morals can be disgusting!

“Improving” is not a word I would use in this case.

Not saying Google isn’t spying on you, but with Yandex you get into Russian government territory.

• Yandex collects user data (their privacy policy)
• Yandex cooperates with the Russian FSB

Decide yourself who should get your information.

Largely true, though the full answer is a bit more nuanced.

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I do. I use several search engines, but depending on the topic, Bing returns accurate results, especially since they integrated Bing Chat (their AI).

And I’m not alone.

Google a) is littered with ads, sponsored and overly SEOified results and b) has too much dominance.

So I use Bing, Ecosia (which uses Bing) and a number of other search engines.