Linux is not going to stop being monolithic. That’s why AOSP is looking into swapping out the kernel.

Mullvad is distributed and funded by Mullvad VPN but it was made entirely by the folks at Tor project. It’s by no means “just an ad for a VPN”. It’s the best anti-fingerprinting browser you can use to browse without connecting to the Tor network. Anti-fingerprinting is very hard hard business. There are a lot of academic research around it that needs perfect implementation. You can tell how much we need that from Google blocking 3rd party cookies in Chrome. It means they figured out a way to track users reliably without the use of cookies and they want to drawn out the competition.

RFP probably ensures you give out a predetermined set of fonts as installed.

Vivaldi doesn’t have to use v3, Brave won’t. If Vivaldi does upgrade to v3, that should tell you something.

that works better for me. sure, I could not care less what browsers others use.

Trusting a company to do right by you (for unknown reasons) vs. trusting thousands of independent researchers who have no incentive to wrong you. Though pick, I guess.

Putting Brave and Vivaldi in the same bucket is just Mozilla shilling.

Why would you target a browser with 5% market share instead 65? How do you even manage to make an application that’s performing vastly different on different UIs but the same engine? Sounds like you need to go looking for real engineers to build your thing.

Although you could take into account what the makers are telling you.

Google claims Chrome is private too.

all over the news, Vivaldi has not

Becauae not many gives a fuck about Vivaldi enough to reverse engineer it

not like I can validate the Firefox source either

You don’t have to. Thousand of people who know what they’re doing does.

just trusting the website I download it from, or more likely my distro packaging

This is a separate security, not privacy, issue resolved by trust chain model of distro packaging.

You wiuldn’t believe the amount of people who don’t use adblockers even now.

Give me some of that closed source browser goodness, yes. Vivaldi and Chrome are the same thing from a privacy perspective precisely because you cannot verify that they’re not.

Flutter and dart are what you’d call source available rathen than open source.

Huh, old.reddit.com is so much worse tham reddit.com

Billion dollar business idea: ISP but its not run by scum.

I don’t think it’s anyone’s job to make sure newcomers do not leave Linux because “muh post was removed”. If you can’t take 2 minutes to find the correct sub to post your question, you won’t be able to use Linux either.

Lemmy has this problem where everything is upvoted no matter what. I’ve posted some dumb questions myself expecting them to get removed but they received upvotes instead. I’m thinking its either bots to drive engagement or people are very welcoming here or they’re just happy that Lemmy isn’t dead yet so they’ll upvote anything.

What’s the point of using a proxy on top of a VPN?

Isn’t there official insuramce revords for those type of things? Do they just take the reference’s word? I mean how do you even know who you’re talking is who they say they are.

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The wiki for pipewire is very short and clear.

There is no speed penalty to using Codium. It’s literally the repository built with telemetry off and without MS spyware. And, why use VS code if you care about speed in the first place.

No.