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Really depends on where and how the data collection is integrated.

Browser forks mostly make changes to the application UI which wraps the engine, not to the engine itself. Browser engines are these fantastically complex things, extremely difficult to keep operational and secure, which is why there aren’t many of them and why they’re all developed by large organizations. Forking the engine is basically doomed to failure for a small project because you won’t be able to keep up, you’ll be out of date in a month and drastically insecure in a year.

This is basically all there is.

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…which is Gecko, which is Mozilla.

…which is Gecko, which is Mozilla.

Fuck’s sake, might as well be a warrant canary.

And they’re peddling the myth of anonymous data. Great.

Are any of those independent browser projects functional yet?

Konqueror, which is Webkit, is still actively developed, though less feature-rich than more popular browsers.

Do you want to help this person be better, or do you want to protect yourself from them?

The first will require that they are receptive in some way to being helped, so it may be impossible.

The second… well, you’ve described a deeply insecure person. The need to constantly remind other people how much better they are demonstrates a real fear of being found to be inadequate. If you can determine the source and/or subject of the insecurity you can potentially weaponize it against them. That’s risky though, it may make you more of a target for retribution.

Remember, you can’t fix someone else, they can only fix themselves. You can offer guidance, but that only works if they’re open to being guided.

Perhaps the best course of action is more zen… let them learn their own lessons. Isolate yourself from damage as much as possible, and just wait for them to crash and burn. Make popcorn.

What we need is a new system

The transition from ALSA to Pulse never really fully happened and a lot of backend stuff is still dependent on ALSA. If you ever find that you have an audio channel that is just not working for no apparent reason (like audio input), run alsamixer and check if the channel is muted there.

I’ve found this multiple times on new Ubuntu-derivative installs, and the channel muting in ALSA is not reflected anywhere in the desktop GUI audio settings and can’t be adjusted through them, but nothing is technically broken - you just have to raise the volume on that channel via alsamixer. It’s a very annoying gotcha.

FOSS options available via F-Droid:

• Jerboa
• Voyager
• Raccoon
• Eternity

And via the IzzyOnDroid repository:

• Thunder
• Interstellar (also handles Mbin)

Go FOSS, avoid the Play store, be free.

If not me, then who?

Drink. More. Water.

• About 15.5 cups (3.7 liters) of fluids a day for men
• About 11.5 cups (2.7 liters) of fluids a day for women

Nah, I can just implant the chips. Need an insulator as substrate for mounting the components.

100%. I’m trying to convert my brain matter into an acceptable substrate for circuitry.

Dr. Ball, M.D.