Firefox and Brave both suck a bit in terms of privacy.

Okay, I’ll bite: how does Firefox suck in terms of privacy?

WTF‽ Were they trying to frame Mozilla as anti-LGBT?

Yup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_onion_address

I can do it in the Boost for Lemmy app. I don’t know if you can do it via the web interface.

Less maintained? Did you even read the article you posted?

“We take these findings extremely seriously and have moved quickly to patch the identified issues,” said a Mullvad spokesperson. “We’re grateful to X41 for their thorough audit, which helps us continually improve our service’s security.”

Despite the concerning nature of some vulnerabilities, the researchers praised Mullvad’s overall security posture. “The Mullvad VPN Application appears to have a high security level and is well positioned to protect from the threat model proposed in this report,” the audit stated.

*Edit: just in case anyone is curious, here’s what the deleted comment said:

https://cybersecuritynews.com/mullvad-vpn-vulnerabilities/

Yea, let’s switch to some other service that is less maintained because of a compliment to a guy we don’t like.

@italics2@lemmy.world

Mullvad for VPN and Tuta for email.

It’s Walmart’s generic brand for electronics.

If you think that’s bad you don’t want to ask his opinion on homosexuality. He’s a raging homophobe.

I know it’s off-topic but that guy really gets on my nerves.

I just looked and I had 1234 comments.

• 5 Best App Launchers for Ubuntu & Linux Mint

“The default application launcher in Ubuntu is provided by GNOME Shell, offering a full-screen grid of icons — but it isn’t to everyone’s tastes.”

bundling tons of spyware

I couldn’t find any info about this with a quick search. Do you have any links to where I can read more about this?

adding unique IDs to every installation.

I wasn’t familiar with that so I did a quick search. For anyone else interested here is some info about it:

• Each Firefox download has a unique identifier -ghacks, Mar. 2022

“Internet users who download the Firefox web browser from the official Mozilla website get a unique identifier attached to the installer that is submitted to Mozilla on install and first run.”

[…]

“Firefox users who prefer to download the browser without the unique identifier may do so in the following two ways:”

1. Download the Firefox installer from Mozilla’s HTTPS repository (formerly the FTP repository).

2. Download Firefox from third-party download sites that host the installer, e.g., from Softonic.

“The downloaded installers do not have the unique identifier, as they are identical whenever they are downloaded.”

In the comments section someone says:

“It seems that getting Firefox from GNU/Linux repos (Debian, etc.), doesn’t come with unique IDs.”

Owner of what?

As long as they’re able to punch down I don’t think they care

Interesting take.

The shareholders, mostly.

Why? What’s inaccurate about it? I have no idea and would like to learn.

Oh, yeah… I must be a boomer because I think worshipping a make believe deity is stupid. Makes perfect sense.

I’m not saying I agree with their justification but I could see why they might be collecting yet another data point: education level. If someone constantly uses a calculator for simple calculations they might have a low education level. People in that demographic will be served different ads than more educated people.

It sucks, but I could see Google doing that.

It has been explained repeatedly why someone might oppose the teachings of the Bible. They have nothing to do with sexuality. You just choose to ignore it because it doesn’t fit your agenda.

Then why did you do it?