Comment on Yo, fire fox what the fuck?

• BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Notifications went from usefully updates to unwanted ads infestation and the worst part is there is little to no granularity to notifications on most platforms, you either disable all notifications or none, there’s no way to just disable the promotional notifications like you can with emails so that the necessary stuff still comes through

  source
• BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have a mini PC I use as a console, works great. I run Linux and don’t get this crap. This is unfortunately a windows “feature”, although it’s frustrating Firefox is making use of it. Presumably Firefox has an update and is “letting you know” about it’s features. Presumably this can be turned off within Firefox, but other apps may do the same from time to time. It’s crazy Windows allows this to be drawn over a full screen game.

  FYI as an alternative Linux on a mini PC can be set up like the Steam Deck interface to be truely controller only. Windows games run great (I’ve completed Cyberpunk 2077 on mine for example), but one limitation is anti cheat games may not work. If that affects games you’d want to play then either stick with windows or dual boot Linux and Windows and switch to windows if you ever want to play an anti-cheat game that doesn’t work in Linux. But Linux in gamescope mode is perfect for gaming, with none of this type of nonsense.

  source
• running_ragged@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I feel like it’s the OS’s job to provide the means to mute or defer notifications in certain contexts, and the games jobs to enter that context in full screen.

  source

  • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I feel like it’s not the browsers job to congratulate me for installing an update that includes new features

    source

    • running_ragged@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think that’s a fair position.

      But the browser is just an app like any other. Apps have notification systems tied to the OSs notification system. Each app independently decides what they think it important to take advantage of that notification system.

      The OS should have a notification system that supports mute/deferrals, and other apps, games, media players or whatever else the use wants should use that system for the users benefit.

      source
  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I feel like a year ago, Windows was much better at not interrupting. There is literally a setting to engage Do No Disturb mode when playing a game. But it definitely seems to have stopped doing that from my experience despite that being a default setting and still enabled on my gaming rig. Something changed, and I doubt it’s every game.

    source
• adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Recommend extensions as you browse
  Recommend features as you browse

  turn these off.

  if you had these enabled, you are probably running defaults most everywhere and have a dozen more settings in firefox to look at; plus a lot more in chrome or edge if you use those, as well as in windows itself.

  source
• vikingtons@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m sorry that happened. I’ve never seen stuff like this happen but this is likely because I disable as much shit as I can every time I set Firefox up on a new system, but as you can see from the list of recs I pinked above, it’s a bit of a chore.

  There are definitely smarter ways to go about it, like scripting the disablement of stupid shit in Firefox (or using a privacy respecting fork of the browser), but I like to do this / monitor this manually to keep track of any newly introduced anti features.

  source