"Please stop spying on us"
"Oh, sorry! Didn't mean to. Didn't realise I was."
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Political associations is a real dangerous one. The fact the government could get access to information to who supports opposition parties in the wrong hands effectively end democracy in one term.
Looks that way. Often you can get hundreds of upvotes for the most engaging content which wouldn't happen without the thousands of subscribers.
The thing is, if they don't offer these cheap stuff, they may have to do something crazy, like pay staff what they are worth. This definitely looks like a false economy.
But we'll be ready for it, and we'll keep driving against it. Even after this, Chromium is something people just need to move away from. They've motivated us, and I believe we can make dints, and will.
I went with GrapheneOS and it is my preference, but we need all this software to mature. We want choices and a hardened more complete feature set, so I really want CalyxOS to succeed also. That and Lineage, /e/os, Linux Mobile options etc.
You complained about reliance on GUI tools, so you're going to have to explain how that isn't easy to use if folk are to help you. What is the issue with that for you?
Most stuff on opensuse, you can also do on command line. Having a GUI to help people who like a GUI doesn't mean people who like command line aren't facilitated.
On OpenSuse, sudo zypper install package-name
Not too complex if you ask me.
I don't know the reason why they use Google analytics, but I think I read there was certain mitigations in place. I personally wouldn't go there.
Google pay the most money for default search. Firefox used to have yahoo as the default search engine and could easily switch to Bing if they pay the most. Going with the most money you can get for funding the development of your browser is just sensible strategy. Firefox aren't in the search market. Who, who cares about privacy doesn't change their default search engine? You have yet to back up your insinuation that the default search money influences anything. I very much doubt you'll produce anything substantial.
Considering Brave is modified Chromium, I cannot take seriously the suggestion that Firefox has more google. If Google pull the updates to chromium, Brave is dead, as they sure ain't investing much time into building a browser. They're more focussed on ads, and from what I've read, affiliate links.
You can question my knowledge base all you want. I have concerns about your motives and conclusions. I am not going to change the decision on this.
I have used Firefox for years, and for no problem. This isn't a general tech advice community. It's a degoogling community.
If you're uncomfortable with us recommending other projects not led by or influence by google, is it really the right place for you?
It's a fork of Chromium, so Google will add it. They'll have to specifically remove it.
Also, if companies are considering implementing WEI, they will look at most of their users on chromium users and say, we most of our users are on Chromium, so the risk is low.
The CEO can say what he wants, but it doesn't affect whether companies will roll this out. Google can not be trusted to drive web standards, and chromium needs to stop being used if we are to make it clear to website owners that they cannot simply support Chrome/Chromium only.
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