I’m currently using LibreWolf (a Firefox fork) as my primary browser, with uBlock Origin set to block scripts by default on all but a few sites. When i need to use a site that’s not one of these trusted ones and refuses to work without JS (for example, forums.linuxmint.com), is it better for my privacy to temporarily allow JS or to open the site in a different browser like FF or Vivaldi?
Does switching browsers actually make it harder to track me, especially ones that don’t have full modern CSS and JS support like Dillo, Links2, Alhena, and NetSurf?
Treating Google and Meta as apolitical in contrast to the scaaaary foreign entities - when they are currently aiding genocide and more-spectacular-than-usual immigration cruelties - is a particularly funny example of how liberal rhetoric rapidly ages out of relevance to its own premises. If you ever read about the Cold War and wonder why people were so easily duped by McCarthyism, just examine your own thought processes. Little changed.
On a more practical note, most people are concerned with personal safety, not ideology, so entities that will block you & have you arrested for political reasons e.g. Microsoft, Meta, and Google are far from ideal for Americans. If your beliefs are still outside that expansive group of reasons just sit tight you’ll probably care in time. Russians should avoid Russian services. You get the idea
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Well I think that saying the main threat is their negligent practices is downplaying the situation when they literally have the CIA camped out in their HQ like any US tech company. The US is the principal cyberattack force in the world not only taking shit down, deniably, plus physical penetration like torturing people and cutting undersea cables, they get coins like 15 years later if they have to, no they’re running most of the Tor nodes too
How is the main danger from Meta and Google that they’re just transparent? They’re malefactors. There is strong albeit circumstantial evidence that Meta and Google have been physically sabotaging their African ISP competitors in the pursuit of their offshore cable encirclement projects. They directly cut people off from services like email for inscrutable reasons - doesn’t take being an ICJ judge. You can get cut off from regular acct services, cloud rentals, & the monopoly marketplace that much of the internet subsists on, and they will always be reimbursed bc they are backed by US inter-agency racket + finance + M.I.C. to the point where it is necessary to consider Google and other western tech companies as central arms of the people driving the worst shit in the world. Who gives a fuck about the Russians? The Russians aren’t the ones trying to impoverish the entire globe. They’ve never been offered a buy-in to the neocolonial system. Google literally represents the preeminent threats to life on earth and is personally, invasively running illegal psychological experiments on you. They are going to exterminate every fucking squirrel. GOOGLE IS LITERALLY A MORE EFFICIENT THREAT TO HUMAN LIFE THAN THE THIRD REICH (in relative manpower terms, like number of kills per employee) IT MUST BE DESTROYED
US tech companies are literally operating with treasure secreted away by the Japanese imperialists. The purpose of a system is what it does (infinite human torture).