The simplest and most generic solution is to go into the settings app and to your apps settings.

Select the app you want to prevent from opening.

Towards the bottom you should see something like “open.by default.”

Not sure exactly which version of android changed the options, but if you tap that it will either give the newer option of °in the app °in the browser

In the browser should keep the app from opening.

I find the new language is much less clear on what these do vs :

The older default links settings was to not allow app to open. Ask. Or allow.

You might also find a setting in the browser itself along similar lines of ‘allow links to open out of browser’ , ‘keep links in browser’,‘open link in app’ etc.

Also, if you like, you can also allow other preferred apps to open those links Eg:

And for more info :

https://support.google.com/android/search?q=open+by+default

Iron fox is great.

Was my first impression.

However, it is maybe a bit excessively prohibitive in it’s attempts to provide privacy/security.

And there are a few issues that leave some privacy options wide open for some reason.

To the 1st point, they use a couple dozen different blocklists, using uBlock. Those default lists block sites that can test your browser for security and privacy vulnerability. Eg one of the most used and ubiquitous sites: browserleaks.org is blocked.

Which brings me to 2nd point.

I always check webrtc for leaks. In Mozilla/Firefox builds that is media.peerconnection.enabled in about:config.
In the plethora of blocklists used by ironfox two are conspicuously left unchecked: block webrtc and unbreak webrtc.
And, for whatever reasoning, in about config, yep, peerconnection is enabled. As is webgl.

Maybe I don’t get out much, but I have never experienced an issue with any website that required webrtc, webgl, or wrbgpu be enabled. (They are each significant attack surfaces and each leak data you didn’t know was being leaked)

I’m not using iron fox to use teams or make a video call. There is zero reason for it.

And blocking sites that check these has me maybe a little cautious on it really being the thing it says it is.

While continuing to use their own proxies to send your data to google.

I got a pixel 9 for $240 CAD via carrier promotion in Canada.

I held out getting a new phone as long as I could and they offered a new pixel 9 for $5 per month for 24 months

Not to trade in after 24.

It’s mine. For 5$ a month.

When I received it I didn’t turn it on for a week.

Read as much as I could to decide that Google would only ever see the single boot to enable developer mode and enable OEM unlock to flash graphenos.

It seemed intimidating, but the process to install is very smooth.

Rant away!

I, too, dislike that snap as well.

Canonical are doing some not cool things these days.

Good thing mint has lmde as their backup plan.

I really enjoy graphene and the separate user profiles with no google integration.

If a google app, or something from play store is needed they’ve developed a compatability layer and sandbox for play services and store.

It’s a lot of security toggles and permissions.

But not having Google sucking your data at every level of the OS is great.

Wirh the isolated profiles, you can still have a fully googled system which you can fully lockdown at anytime, while having a pure aosp high security profile.

It’s fdroid and Izzy/codeberg and ironfox and termux and a few other repos on main.

I don’t do snap/insta/meta/etc and have no need for apps that drain my soul, anyway.

Anyway, yeah, google fucking sucks.

I wonder how well that’ll work against the 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 (that’s the real number) ipv6 addresses.

You are not.

I also go so far as to completely remove the options for anything on home/newtab from the prefs page.

I didn’t mind the shortcuts and such on a new tab page, but ads…just no.

Figured I’d add a screenshot:

I am a tweaker

You will own nothing and you will be happy.

When you receive the notification you should be able to long press on it to show the options for that specific notification.

Usually, there are 2 larger horizontal options: default, and silent.

Below and to the left you might find the text: turn off notifications.

To the top right corner of the notification you should find a settings icon. If you tap that it should bring up the options for that specific notification.

Yep. One of the fist things I set in about:config

extensions.pocket.enabled     false

Removed by mod

It is true.

Recently saw 2 episodes over the past few weeks.

One was a cyber truck, and a model s a few days ago.

Never heard an audience (and contestant) not go wild over any car.

It was a noticeably unenthusiastic response.

It’s so bad that when they try to give away teslas on The Price is Right, the audience is quiet.

I wonder who that benefits?

Hmmm. Oh . that’s weird. My phone just

Praise glorious leader Putin.

https://www.christianpost.com/news/we-asked-grok-whether-its-new-logo-is-a-broken-cross.html

The 53-year-old Tesla and SpaceX CEO told Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson in an interview last July that the decision to build a supercomputer in Memphis evoked references, at least in part, to the Memphis of ancient Egypt and its pantheon of gods.

“Perhaps that’s where our new god will come from,” Musk said.

A billion fake Nazi troll accounts, or as felon likes to call them, x users, has already done the damage.

Unless we can counter by creating billions of raffi and Mr rogers and bob Ross bobnets the only hope is to learn to make your own emp devices.

Botnets feed the trolls feed the botnets feed the magats feed the trolls feed the botnets feed the GPT.

Fun fact: it has a car wash mode. It actually will kill the monstrosity by getting it wet.

Yes. Ironfox, Firefox. Some browsers do use webview, most don’t. It’s a separate app.

However, while you’re at it, use an spp like Activity Launcher to access hidden apps and settings.

Like being able to stop webview from doing A LOT by accessing the web view dev tools.

You can set it to overlay a yellowish tint on anything that uses webview so you know what is actually using it.