The CDC is absolutely a joke -- a joke that is not funny at all

They said "partisan", not false or unrighteous?

A partisan viewpoint is pretty explicitly stated:

> The motive force of Brownstone Institute is the global crisis created by policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020. That trauma revealed a fundamental misunderstanding alive in all countries around the world today, a willingness on the part of the public and officials to relinquish freedom and fundamental human rights in the name of managing a public health crisis, which was not in fact managed well in most countries. The consequences were devastating and will live in infamy.

Why mention that it's partisan except to disparage?

For what specific reason beyond partisanship should we dismiss this?

Pointing out others' partisanship without making actual arguments seems awfully partisan, too. Partisan but empty.

Try Tom Select: https://tom-select.js.org/examples/

Any initial impressions on that one?

We could start by calling it what it is -- antisocial. Spending time on media content aggregators is an antisocial activity. Not that spending some time on an antisocial activity is inherently bad... studying and research are also antisocial activities. But let's not call something "social" when it is the antithesis of anything that could be considered as such. I think this could be a decent start!

Antisocial - "when a person consistently shows no regard for right and wrong and ignores the rights and feelings of others".

I don't think antisocial fits as a descriptor, at all. When I think of antisocial behavior I think of graffiti or arson and other property damage without regard for the owners or the public sphere.

I think the word you're looking for is asocial.

I think it would be one thing if they were just aggregators. It's the community aspect that's harmful - it's clearly addicting and gives people the feeling of being social with fewer of the benefits.

It has made my life worse. And I know of people who agree.. Maybe you don't use it? It's highly political, divisiveness is obvious. Maybe you simply don't use or analyze it, so obvious things about it aren't obvious to you

I don't see any divisiveness nor politics on my feed. It's all baby pictures and vacation photos. Anecdotes are not data.

How much do they need to elaborate?

Totally agree. It's not intrusive, gives lots of options organized well, it's fast... great browser. I assume it's still safer than Chrome as well, seems like the best option for now

I'm not sure why anyone would use chrome on android when brave, vivaldi, firefox are all better.

Same old answer, and actually the real reason why Firefox marketshare is dropping: people don't change the default application.

I think the UI on FF mobile is more than fine.. what did you not like about it?

I copied the following from one of my other comments since it's a lot of text, but these are the reasons I moved off Firefox for Android (Fenix) to Brave. Also, Chromium-based browsers for Android have none of the following issues.

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- Scrolling up on Google search's results page and some other pages is not registered half the time, and sometimes triggers pull-to-refresh instead

- Scrolling up inside an input box while the page is at the top of the screen causes unintentional pull-to-refresh

- Bitwarden autofill is not registered unless you kill and restart the app after logging in

- You can't save images that require cookies to be passed to the request, such as under DDoS protected pages

- Links will sometimes redirect to about:blank unless you go back and click them again

- Most recently visited page is not restored when closing and reopening the app, even though it's saved to the history (closed as wontfix)

- Uses large amounts of memory, causing Android share actions to be silently killed due to OOM unless you quickly kill the app right after sending them

- Closing a tab and clicking "Undo" in the popup sends the tab all the way to the top of the list, instead of its original position (inconvenient if you have a large number of tabs open)

- Frequently loses open tabs in memory, even within ten seconds of navigating to another tab

- Startup time is noticably slower than Brave, taking at least a few seconds to show the UI and begin loading the page. It isn't much, but it impacts the user experience every time you start the app again.

Are you sure you're talking about Firefox? For example it doesn't even have pull to refresh so you can't trigger it unintentionally :)

I use it all the time now because it supports uBlock Origin and Dark Reader and I think it's good. And I have all my bookmarks on Firefox sync. I have some minor issues with it like the tab list that doesn't always scroll right but they're not deal-breakers.

UI is fine but 1. Battery consumption is at least twice the one of Brave 2. There is no option to always get the desktop site which makes it useless for tablets

Main reasons I also moved to Brave on all my devices. If these are fixed and Mac battery consumption is fixed I'd go back asap