Given that even Mozilla (who has significantly less resources than Google) had the ability to create a second web engine and then abandon it, it would be dumb to think that Google doesn’t have at least 2 or 3 teams working on different browsers or engines for no reason.
Unless they’re prohibited from creating another web browser ever again (which would most likely be a bad idea), they can probably come up with a working browser in less than two years
Using Linux does not make you safe either. Given that almost every server runs Linux, you can bet good money that most intelligence agencies have a few full time employees adding backdoors to the kernel XZ Utils style, and at least one of them has succeeded.
This should be a short term problem. Remember China has banned US contractors from acquiring their rare earth metals, so the US needs to start producing these materials due to the heavy exposure to imports.
There’s a big problem in the production of fighter jets because they (among other issues) need those materials that China is no longer willing to give, leading to contractors acquiring them “under the table”.
In response to this, the US rushed to advance rare earth metals production and invest in rare earth magnets production in Texas, which should start in late 2025. The reason why TSMC is starting a fab in Arizona is because the US’s first rare earth metals refinery is starting there as well, which means it should depend less on imports for these materials.
So hopefully, by mid-2026 it should be fine, that is assuming any of the other countless issues with the US economy don’t explode by then.
Pointing out their hypocrisy will not help anybody. The best you can do is sit down and watch this comedy from the sidelines.
If you don’t want the NSA to spy on you, don’t use anything with a modem. Otherwise forget about it.
I didn’t even know it asked for an email for sign up. I just remember the recovery email.
I don’t think you are required to provide a secondary email, but you get less features without it.
I doubt somebody running from a government is taking their tips from wired.com
They do store it and have provided it to authorities in the past. In their defense, modern laws require you to hand over any data you have or get shut down. But they already knew that, yet choose to ask for it anyways knowing that they have to give it away if asked to.
Sure. Until that happens, it will be the better option.
And in terms of cashflow, they depend on that google money. They’re in trouble without it
That’s irrelevant. The only thing important is what they have to do for that money, which is setting Google as the default search engine. This only “hurts” you if you don’t take 15 seconds to change the default.
How are they doing that? They’re simply making money by putting Google search as the default. Changing it literally takes a few seconds.
Yes. The Google-funded Firefox that won’t take away your ability to block ads. Any other questions?
In an ideal world the headline would be “Google kills Chrome by preventing users from blocking ads”.
From the repo:
A random DNS and HTTPS internet traffic noise generator provides enhanced privacy and security by obfuscating users’ online activities. It generates random, non-user-initiated queries to DNS servers and encrypted HTTPS connections, making it difficult for third parties such as ISPs, surveillance systems, or malicious actors to analyze and track actual browsing patterns. This added layer of traffic noise reduces the effectiveness of traffic analysis and profiling techniques, making it harder to identify specific behaviors, websites, or services accessed by the user.
Technically, even if your data is encrypted, the amount of data you send (and the time between packets) can be analyzed to at the very least figure out what website you’re on, and who knows what else (i.e. Youtube’s HTML, CSS, and JS files will be different than Facebook’s, so the amount of data sent will be different, and you can train an AI to recognize these patterns). This app pretty much it protects you against packet analysis from your ISP or anyone else who could monitor your network. I guess this assumes that you’re using a VPN or some sort of proxy since it’s not very useful otherwise.
You know this for a fact?
How does it know when it’s right if you’re the one teaching it?
I guess 5 years is not too bad, but the judge would probably never agree to the ban.