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In your opinion, which FOSS software is by many considered "old" or "obsolete", but are in fact, in your opinion, in many ways better than the newer alternatives? (feddit.dk)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'll start:

RSS and blogs, news vs. social media
XMPP vs. WhatsApp/FB messenger/Snapchat
IRC vs. Matrix, Teams, Discord etc.
Forums vs. Social media, Reddit, Lemmy(?)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

uMatrix browser extension. It has been marked archived by Gorhill, last release is two years old, you are supposed to just use uBlock [Origin]. However, it still (luckily) works fine and is exactly what I want. (Sure, I won't install this for my parents.) The GUI to simply choose what you want the site to be allowed to do is perfect.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I wonder if Gorhill could have avoided a lot of the nonsense bug reports by making uMatrix default to allowing everything, as if it was not installed at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Used it and it was good, as I remember. Later switched to uBlock Origin because it presumably uses less resources and does the job.