It really sucks to be in a world where you have to choose between two vendors for the tools you must use to access most of your life, both of which have clearly stated they are actively working against both your best interests and the best interests of society. Of course, there's an alternative — various third parties, many of which are actively malicious and none of which are remotely reasonable choices when it comes to security, feature parity, or anything else.

Today this is about browsers, but the fact that I have to specify is its own problem.

@dymaxion yeah. So how do we (society) pay for browsers?
@mcr314
I wish I had a good answer, for any shared Infrastructure.
@dymaxion @mcr314 Once upon a time, that was what governments were for... but we can't trust them with a piece of technology that can be undermined with surveillance either.