# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
# 
# Usage:
#     https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users              View list of users and latest twt date.
#     https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt                View all twts.
#     https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri  View all mentions for uri.
#     https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash         View all twts for a conversation subject.
# 
# Options:
#     uri     Filter to show a specific users twts.
#     offset  Start index for quey.
#     limit   Count of items to return (going back in time).
# 
# twt range = 1 11
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/zf5dtfq
tkanos
twtxt.net
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Which browser should I be using ?
novaburst
twt.nfld.uk
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@tkanos anything old school (even firefox 1.0) is fine at this point
novaburst
twt.nfld.uk
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the least worst browsers are webkit-based ones
mckinley
twtxt.net
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@novaburst @tkanos The best Web browser is NetSurf, but it's not a practical daily driver yet. ;) My problem with Webkit based browsers like Otter Browser or Surf is a lack of powerful extension support. Some of them come with an integrated content blocker but I use extensions for more than that. Once one of them has an equivalent to uBlock Origin and uMatrix and lets me make regex redirect rules (like ^https?://([A-Za-z0-9\\-]+\\.)?medium\\.com/(.+)$ -> https://$1scribe.rip/$2) then I'll consider using it daily.
Until then, I think Librewolf and ungoogled-chromium (with the Chromium Web Store extension) are the least worst.
mckinley
twtxt.net
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@novaburst @tkanos The best Web browser is NetSurf, but it's not a practical daily driver yet. ;) My problem with Webkit based browsers like Otter Browser or Surf is a lack of powerful extension support. Some of them come with an integrated content blocker but I use extensions for more than that. Once one of them has an equivalent to uBlock Origin and uMatrix and lets me make regex redirect rules (like ^https?://([A-Za-z0-9\-]+\.)?medium\.com/(.+)$ -> https://$1scribe.rip/$2) then I'll consider using it daily.
Until then, I think Librewolf and ungoogled-chromium (with the Chromium Web Store extension) are the least worst.
tkanos
twtxt.net
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Thanks guys @novaburst and @mckinley, I will have a look to your suggestions and also https://www.waterfox.net/, will try that one too.

I was using Brave, but I'm not very happy with it.
eaplmx
twtxt.net
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@tkanos I use Brave as my main browser (for privacy reasons, and after using Opera for a few years it started working weirdly so I switched to another Chrome-based browser).

Then I also use Edge (on Win 10), Firefox and LibreWolf.

On Android, I use Firefox Nightly, and try not to use Chrome.
mckinley
twtxt.net
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@tkanos It's worth mentioning that Brave and Waterfox Classic are spyware according to Spyware Watchdog:
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/brave.html
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/waterfox_classic.html
Both have a spyware level of "High". For Waterfox Classic, the article is titled "Waterfox Classic" but it frequently mentions "Waterfox". It's unclear to me which browser is being tested for the article, but if one is spyware, the other probably is too.
ungoogled-chromium is Not Spyware, and Librewolf barely has a spyware level of "Low" because it makes a request to the Mozilla safe browsing service and tries to auto-update uBlock Origin. Those requests can be disabled.
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/ungoogled_chromium.html
https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/librewolf.html
mckinley
twtxt.net
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Apologies for the formatting issues there, I can't delete or edit the post without enabling JavaScript.
tkanos
twtxt.net
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@mckinley thanks a lot. Very hard to find one.
will
twtxt.net
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I use links (and ff) and frankly… I’m lovin it