The hero we need

sudo dnf up

I shouldn’t have to adjust my grip on my phone to change the way I swipe to exit the website because that website decided to replace a commonly used functionality to make it different for their website alone. I kid you not I almost didn’t see that button because my thumb was naturally placed in front of it.

There is already a way to make a gesture that navigates “previous” or “next” by swiping left or right. It is by swiping from the center of the screen outwards and it is how that website should have made that gesture work if they didn’t want to interfere with Android navigation gesture users.

It is called Gestures Navigation and replaces the three button navigation. It is an available option in the settings if your Android version supports it. Some people don’t like it, personally I prefer it except for that one time some asshole website tries to take advantage of it.

On many Android phones swiping from the outside edge of the screen inwards either from the left or right edge, it behaves like you tapped the “back” button. It is extremely useful to get out of for example an article that was opened on Lemmy or simply navigating through menus on your phone.

A swipe either left or right from the middle-ish of the screen is what you would expect to take you from the previous or next article. Not from the edge.

The swiping motion that you are describing starts from the center of the screen outwards. I have no problems with that as you have said, it is standard behaviour across most platforms and doesn’t conflict with other gestures.

The problem is that the site is using a swiping from the edge of the screen inwards instead. In most gestures-enabled Android devices this is a powerful gesture that has the same functionality as using the “back” button and its utility and functionality extends well beyond web browsers. It is incompetent design at best to try to make that gesture do something else on your website.

More importantly, I was visiting this page from a Lemmy link and the only way to get out and back to Lemmy when you have gesture enabled (short of force quitting the app entirely and reopening it) is to use that gesture. That website tries to hijack that feature to make you see more ads on their site.

It’s a personal preference. Ever since I tried gesture I never went back to buttons. I don’t even need to adjust my hand position to get out of a page and it’s never been a problem until that site has put a different function exactly where my thumb was going to swipe.

Also, such a function you are suggesting would use a different gesture. You would have to swipe from the center-ish of the screen outwards instead of the other way around.

Apple’s gestures though, I can’t stand.

For a moment I thought it was referencing the fact that some people are never satisfied with the amount of money they have and always want more.

May I ask how you got that patched version and how you can trust it?

Macrodroid sold out and became spyware crammed with trackers that send data to dozens of third party analytics companies. Stay away from Macrodroid. Exodus report on the app

“And your birth just put them in crippling debt that they will never be able to recover from. Enjoy life!”

I imagine the two teams sharing the same desk through a hole in the wall like in Brazil.

Sorry, I have a chronic medical condition that makes reading manuals physically painful, which prevents me from reading the manual until I encounter a problem that requires me to read it, at which point I will have likely discarded it. And if I haven’t, I will only read through the part that contains the information I need to know to solve the problem and then immediately forget it after.

Evolved trait

I wish I had a vest like this and the confidence to wear it at parties. This guy is a Chad.

All that extra telemetry that you can’t turn off uses a lot of resources it seems

I am not particularly intelligent, nor particularly knowledgeable on the details on how OSes and kernels work. And I’m comfortably using Linux. One more reason why more people should.

But I agree that it would be very nice if legislation was finally passed to prohibit that spyware bullcrap most of the big players have trying to force down our throats.

Were we supposed to give it back?

“It fits the requirements stated in the contract”

Interesting how we’ve all become accustomed to the notion that “agreeing to arbitration” has just become “waving your consumer rights” and no lawmaker is pushing to have that fixed.