The problem with all these Firefox forks is most of them are dead ends, development wise. They don’t contribute upstream. Maybe Tor excluded.

Hopefully this one is different, it does seem to have some actual code behind it rather than just disabling features.

Exactly. That’s why it’s a trash motherboard as soon as root access is gained. It can never again be trusted.

How do you trust that the flash was done properly if you did it from the compromised system? This would only work if you flashed it externally somehow without the system running.

2% and shrinking with every major service that isn’t compatible

What’s wrong with the Flatpak permissions system on Linux?

Good read. Makes sense and not even that complex, good that they did this experiment anyway just to prove it out to those less technical and try to get prevention steps out there.

That also doesn’t resolve the carrier seeing which IPs you’re connecting to, which can often be traced back to services or sites.

The addresses themselves that you’re connecting to as one example. Also often DNS.

The web UI was also vastly superior to Hotmail or Yahoo

It’s pretty drastically harder to register 100 phone numbers, especially in your target region, than 100 email addresses. Major spammers and such work with automation across many accounts, this isn’t designed around someone with 10 accounts.

It’s under the shield on the left of the address bar, better protection against tracking enables this and a bunch of other features. Also on by default in private mode.