I’d argue that the whole internet has a bot problem.

That’s a cute little puddle jumper.

Does Fwy usually speak of themselves in third person?

Oh, don’t get me wrong. Chrome and derivates are also terrible for spying on your every click. And unless it’s a de-Googled chromium fork it absolutely still phones home to Google. Not quite as much as chrome, but still quite a bit.

Except it kinda does. It reinforces the dominant position Chrome has. A browser mono-culture, if you will. Google doesn’t need to go through proper channels to establish a new standard if they can just set the de-facto-standard by supporting or, maybe more important, not supporting something in Chrome. And since Manifest v3 ad-blockers and other content filters are severely hampered, which only serves Google’s ad-revenue but also hinders accessibility extensions. Mono-cultures just aren’t healthy.

Also I think most people do change there default browser but they change it to Chrome ):

They don’t need to change it to chrome, they’re already using it. Every browser except for Firefox, with its derivatives, and Safari are Chrome. Plus a few more esoteric choices that are nowhere near daily-driver ready.

Yes, but I think we’re talking about a very small percentage. The vast majority will just go “man, that sucks” and continue using it because they’re too lazy to leave their comfort zone. Most users don’t even change the default browser, which is arguably one of the easiest things to change.

“Open source” is still commonly used to mean FOSS. Source available software isn’t common enough to have made its way into the broader vocabulary.

I just checked my KeePass and turns out I still have the entry in the recycle bin.
It was 5 digits. Admittedly, that was “back in 2012,” but still. For shame, Bank Austria!

Right? Had a bank account once, where the login password could only have up to 8 characters. And only digits.

The first ‘E’.

And then Americans are surprised people aren’t exactly fans of the US… 🤷🤦

Tumblr is a special place

My only gripe with this page is that it’s in the browser and it keeps recognising a back gesture (swipe from the edge of the screen) whenever a word starts with q or p.

You can’t possibly have misunderstood the issue so fundamentally, can you?

Am I too harsh […]?

No. If there’s no way to verify anything then all we have to go on is their word.
The word of a company generally isn’t worth a whole lot. Same with Telegram.

Throwing Fairphone into the pot. They’re well supported by LineageOS and have the additional advantage of being user-repairable.
But they only ship inside Europe.

That’s only useful in commit messages, issue discussions and stuff like that. Why would the devs even make that execute in source files, where it’s all but guaranteed to be a false match??

Camera and baseband seem to be the general pain points. Somewhat unsurprisingly, given that both are complicated black box devices.