What’s the difference between your friends and family telling you important things and commenters here doing so?

While the interpretation and assessment may be different, they’re fundamentally the same.

I really don’t get the distinction between objective reality and subjective politics. They were mentioning the objective reality of politics influence, not the subjective practice of politics.

You are right

What do you think it makes you vulnerable to?

Port forwarding allows a connection to reach your fiber in the first place.

Advertisers aside, it’s a shame none of that money goes back to the manga authors.

IIRC some parts of that project were integrated into Firefox rendering engine. Was it layouting or something?

Here it is:

This included the Quantum project, when portions of Servo were incorporated into the Gecko engine of Firefox.

You’re talking about security, but really, none of the privacy questions are about technical security of the product.

“What if you miss a setting?” Then they’ll give you article recommendations or send your search query to the search engine you’re targeting in the first place. They’re really a long way from what you can call a security issue, or sharing personal data with random third parties or data brokers.

if they want to be FOSS or capitalist

I really don’t see any basis for this take. It’s not about picking one of two extremes, and the most extreme niches in those.

They create FOSS, and look for privacy respecting partnerships and investment so they can keep it going.

They added ToS because they’re integrating services, like their synced/backed up browser data and other respectful integration.

That’s all a long way from malice, or significant problematic behavior. And you still have more choice than on the other biggest alternatives.

I don’t think it is the best we could have, I would like it a bit different too, but the way you make it out to be is way overblown if not wrong.