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Freya the web scale dog 
@lea @marialeal gotta love drama between the okay browser and insufferable closed source chromium slopware
woe2you@asm @lea @marialeal The Chromium monopoly is easily as big a problem as forcing AI into everything.
hyperrealChromium isn't a monopoly. Firefox and other browsers exist. Chromium does have the majority market share, tho, and I agree this is on par with the forcing AI into everything problem.
IMO Vivaldi gets points for avoiding AI. Only 5% of the code base is proprietary and it's only the UI. 90% is open source Chromium base. Vivaldi is privacy-friendly to the extent that they don't use and sell your data for profit. They've also built ProtonVPN into the browser and users can use the free tier without a ProtonVPN account. I think Firefox is inherently more privacy-friendly because it's not Chromium-based, and has the container tabs feature which Chromium-based browsers sorely lack.
Zen, LibreWolf, and Waterfox are better Firefox skins if you want no-AI and more privacy-by-default settings, but they don't have mobile apps.
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They've also built ProtonVPN into the browser and users can use the free tier without a ProtonVPN accounti don't think cooperating with fascists is a selling point but you do you 
BafS@lea @marialeal @hyperreal @asm @woe2you Proton is NOT a fascist company. The tweet in question was written by the CEO, and it was about Gail Slater. She is focused on antitrust, which is unrelated to fascism, it's a good thing. The CEO never praised Trump's politic in general. There is an absolute lack of nuance.
@BafS It can be argued that, as Slater is a Trump-appointed advisor, and affiliated with the Republican party and Fox Corporation, that she has effectively cooperated with fascists. Her track record on anti-trust speaks for itself. I don't know the extent to which she has influenced the Trump admin for the greater good or if she was just another lackey. Apparently she resigned from her position recently.
@hyperreal "Slater aligns with conservative antitrust views, advocating market competition against Big Tech monopolies without expanding regulation, as discussed in her interviews." that's why it was very interesting for Proton. Breaking big tech monopolies is great.
Recently she was pushed out after blocking deals favored by Trump allies and lobbyists.
I'm still trying to understand what is fascist about that, people love to throw words without actually reading or trying to understand what is going on.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/12/us-antitrust-gail-slater-ousted-trump-administration
