it’s accurate 🤷‍♀️

security in obscurity is a farce. if your system fails upon techniques being revealed, it’s not very secure.

aosp code used to be released all in one lump sum at new version launch and Google has actually changed that to being quarterly releases which takes a lot of burden off android based os devs. so things are actively going in the opposite direction you’ve hypothesized here.

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/14081-what-does-the-lockdown-option-do

this seems to confirm what you’re saying.

generally speaking, just avoid AI as a whole.

I mean, if you don’t want to participate in the advertisement based monetization model, which you shouldn’t, then the alternative to it is a subscription model.

these sites aren’t free. we have the right to block advertising content and trackers on our browsers but that doesn’t mean we have the right to block advertising while retaining no payment access.

gotta that post 9/11 public migration sentiment and the massive consequences of the patriot act.

you need to use Firefox beta, nightly, mull, or Fennec F-Droid to access about:config and from there you can search for and enable resistFingerprinting. it’s not an option in the settings.

yes, if you enable resist fingerprinting on any Firefox build it will cap refresh rate to 60hz. Mull is not doing anything special, it’s just changing about:config options by default.

you can disable resist fingerprinting in mull and regain standard refresh rate (although you lose fingerprinting protection) just as you can enable resistFingerprinting in Firefox beta or nightly and see refresh rate cap at 60.

I wholly agree with you there, I’m just saying it’s the same behavior on all browsers built on Firefox. true for desktop as well

it’s worth noting that this is the intended behaviour for privacy.resistFingerprinting. this is not exclusive to Mull.

okay buddy

I’m not trolling you’re just demonstrably incorrect.

you’ve posted this same comment at least 5 times and you’ve been wrong every time.

you could have used winget or chocolatey as well.

you’re wrong and look stupid.

I love when people post well known and obvious information. if you hadn’t realized metadata is present then idk what to tell you.

they’ve done it for you by accident

what do you think updates are for?? please stop spreading such terrible practices

to be fair you always could remove edge, it just legitimately broke a lot of windows apps

fkn same

well if you have play services installed then google is gonna get some data on you.

while, yes, regardless of your privacy settings google still collects a sickening amount of data on you, much of these things (like voice recordings and location history) can be managed and disabled in the settings. if you wish to go further, grapheneos removes A LOT of tracking potential.

these should be opt in features, but one can opt out of much of them.

out of curiosity, are you aware what changes exactly make the Play Integrity API eligibility requirements not able to be met? with Google play installed, the compatibility layer should be able to facilitate the necessary communication, I would think.

or are they just arbitrarily saying anything that’s not stock isn’t eligible?

i couldn’t think of anything either I was just covering all my bases lol

ownership of tangibles and intangibles (specifically information) are entirely different, regardless how you wanna define ownership or whatever.

iirc, Matrix is a non profit, idk where you’re getting it’s for profit.

all your first points are generally correct, as far as the last one however, that is the entire point in running your own instance. too many uses on matrix.org. all fedi platforms have this issue as well.

you understand there is a difference between personal property and corporate property right? and then beyond that, there is a difference between owning a tangible product and information.

out dated and abandoned. use LocalCDN instead (although it’s kinda useless as well from a tracking perspective)

IP is a fake concept

bro this was dumb

this one is just dumb lmao

I don’t own an apple product lmao what. actually that’s a lie, I use an old iPhone X as a remote for my chromecast.

I’m unsure you have any idea what you’re talking about.

what the fuck are you even talking about my guy? do I have to say “oh I use Firefox btw” for you to decide to not be a brick wall?

you’re a moron change mine.

I said nothing about not having anything to hide. I said it doesn’t mean much. dns resolvers were intended to be cloud based. the only difference between nextdns and standard dns resolvers is the control over function nextdns hands the user.

using cloud services also allows home devices to stay secured via keeping ports closed. the whole “the cloud is someone else’s computer” is just another way of saying “I don’t know how to practice good opsec”.

your isp/vpn provider also can log all your data, or are you going to suggest running everything over tor now?

a dns query does not send that much info since all the contained data from site to user is encrypted and takes network routes separate from the DNS query.

Firefox has a weaker sandbox than chromium and less mature site isolation and therefore has lower security. privacy is a different story, but remember you’re only as private as you are secure so Firefox is inherently not that private assuming a malicious site escapes the sandbox.

I’m fully against chrome’s growing monopoly as well as Google surveillance capitalism but let’s not be so dramatic with the “google mother ship” nonsense.

using chromium as a base does not equal data being sent back to Google, just like using Android as a base doesn’t inherently send data back to Google.

this doesn’t mean as much as you think it does.