Free market is bad in theory and bad in practice.

I’m not sure if that’s true, as far as I know brave is completely de-googled while not being based on de-googled chromium.

Yeah those are 2 good points that I didn’t think about when writing my comment. I guess they aren’t bad in terms of the fact that they spy on you (browser like brave don’t and brave has a built in ad blocker so it is mostly unefected by manifest v3).

But chromium is bad in terms that it is so dominant in the browser space that google can just do things like manifest v3 and no one does anything about it because they won’t even consider for a moment that firefox is a viable alternative.

People almost stair at me in disgust when they see me using firefox because they think it’s a terrible browser even thought they don’t really know why. I think that goes to show how excellent of a job Google has done brainwashing everyone to think chrome is the only browser worth considering.

Overall I love competition and using the less popular competing product, since it’s the only way you can stop for proffit companies from screwing it’s users over.

Depending on your ISP sometimes you can just call them, ask to opt out of cg-nat and they will do it for free.

That’s true, but when I said switch to chrome I ment the official google Chrome which Google makes not a chromium fork. Just because it uses chromium doesn’t mean it’s bad.

There are ways to send all of your internet traffic over tor. For example tails os does it by default.

And tor is definitely more secure than a vpn. Any VPN company can just log all your internet traffic and sell it if they want to. Compared to tor you will need to gain access to at least 2 nodes that the internet traffic goes through in order to get any mildly useful information, that is significantly harder than with a VPN.

Also I just wanna say arguments like these are so fun to read

I’ve had the same experience with vpn’s requiring a captcha for every second website I visit.

No issues yet…

Yeah most people but it’s a snowball effect once a few people you know start using Linux and they like it then you are a lot more likely to try it yourself. I’m an optimist and I believe Linux will start exponentially increasing in adoption (to a point) in the next few years.

Also I think most people do change there default browser but they change it to Chrome ):

The worse Microsoft makes Windows the more people start using Linux and the better Linux becomes.

WHAT?? People getting arrested for having an ad blocker and using signal? That’s just insane that’s not even “over the top” privacy they aren’t even using tor.

Yes.

Why is the techlore community against more advanced privacy? At the very least they could suport the people who have a higher threat model than them instead of banning them.

And why on earth does techlore prefer Google over grapheneos?

Why do you regret convincing your family to use signal? Is it because you wish you got them to use xmpp instead?

I guess it wouldn’t be terrible if they made another browser then there might be three half decent browser engines to chose from: Firefox, old chromium and new chromium (probably called something else)

Is this all really a concern for people with lower threat models? It seams like a lot of effort for a pretty low risk. Although i don’t know how common it is to get your devices tampered with.

Oh wait could you use this for setting up a LAN gaming session or making a gaming server without port forward? That would be sick!

What is the use case of something like this? there is no way I would trust any peers in a swarm with all my internet traffic data. Or do I not need to?

I just wanna say email aliasing is an email related thing so why is it unlimited aliases included in proton pass plus and not proton mail plus???

Try second hand perhaps? Ebay or Facebook or something similar.