I doubt they did - they only speak up for the fictional customer, meanwhile silently complying to whatever government requests user data from them.

They’ll say anything just to distract their users away from them being caught red handed in the act of giving away their data to the governments all around the world.

Classic business marketing.

That’s a good reply I can agree with. I mean we all don’t want to be verbose all the time, but giving some context or counter argument is the point of a healthy discussion. Thank you for the source!

While the corpos are stomping on their own feet, it turns out that doing nothing (i.e. just existing) is the best strategy to apply.

Now perhaps we’ll get more (hopefully) good folks onto Lemmy. Sure, Digg may get some too, but I’m not sure of its long-term privacy respectfulness - being subject to the US laws and all that.

Excuse me, which part is uneducated, and what’s there to read about? I’ve been a solutions architect for years, and I haven’t seen a “one size fits all” type of software. That includes browsers too, which have their technical quirks, compatibility, and inherent risks. I’m capable of creating my own browser, but I don’t believe that makes me qualified to be called a “browsers expert for Earth”, so unless you happen to be Linus Torvalds of browsers, please keep it civil by not being judgemental of folks just discussing. Being open minded is better than being John Firefox, or John Chromium.

What about solo projects? One person is the single point of failure. Small teams without past history? That’s a coin flip, you either encounter genuinely good people, or those who push spyware on you. Or their project becomes abandonware - browsers have thousands of lines of code, and dependencies to be maintained. It’s a very taxing task, which definitely takes away the time for other hobbies. Which leaves us with true community-led projects, which persist regardless of the fate of a corporation or another entity.

Mozilla being sustained by Google just so that Google can’t be sued for monopoly is a vicious circle on its own - Mozilla CEOs are quite unethical at their corporate politics, and very unfair to their employees. Typical 80-90s management style.

So how is mentioning Vivaldi bad? Chromium exists regardless of Google, you don’t need Google to exist for the code base to be intact and developed by people across the globe.

Besides the obvious second-class citizenship treatment from web developers, Firefox is still lackluster in site/process isolation. Its users trade potential privacy gain for a cybersecurity vulnerability & less crash resilience - and most people aren’t Team Blue or Team Red to be on vigil at all times.

Glad to see another Linux phone being added to the current handful - the more, the merrier.

I guess for Americans they can look into the PinePhone by Pine64. There are probably a few other manufacturers out there too.

It’ll definitely switch to local. The electricity and water bills for these AI data centres are enormous, and it’s not getting any better. They’ll either cut it off due to being unsustainable regarding their profit margins, or some laws will curb them down due to wasting Earth’s resources. OpenAI has been operating at a loss since it started, and it’s only sustained by external investments, and it’s not the only case of AI being unprofitable.

Thank you! I’ve had the pleasure to notice Lemmy (or this particular instance) is more of an open thinker space, and that’s great to see. It really reminds me of the Internet before the corpos got their hands to squeeze every penny out of the average netizen.

Then that’s great, at some point Mullvad’s browser development slowed down and I had the impression that it was abandoned. Glad that it isn’t.

And of course Vivaldi isn’t the best option out there - it’s just one of the least offending Chromium browsers. Mozilla itself isn’t in too great shape either, sketchy politics and they’re on life support from Google funding.

Firefox forks though? Quite good stuff out there. I’ve heard some recent praise for the Zen browser in particular.

And if you’re on macOS, then Orion browser is a great option (and WebKit-based).

I made the switch to Lemmy today, feels old school kind of good.

Reddit is not only allowing for bots to run rampant, but also it’s managed by the Epstein class and their supporters.

For cloud hosting, Hetzner is a solid one. Much cheaper than getting involved in AWS, which I’d recommend to stay away from. AWS, and Azure too, can perform their magic trick of generating plenty of unexpected costs, or raising their pricing on the run.

As for the software, Discourse works good as a modern forum. Just spin up a Hetzner cloud machine for about 5 EUR monthly, and setup the preferred software.

Isn’t Mullvad browser kind of deprecated? Vivaldi is quite good, despite its closed-source UI components.