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  • 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.







  • 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.