The simple issue. Devices to control the home (taps, light switches, physical locks with keys etc) have a half-life in the decades, while smart control systems have a half-life of about 18 months.
Eg: I have been in this house for 5 years, some of the light switches are 50 years old. They still work. While a friend who renovated their home 5 years ago has had to completely replace their smart home system in that time. They gave up on most of the tech and went back to dumb controls as the maintenance overhead was ridiculous.
Oh wow, this was unexpected! I wonder what exactly made the board turn against him. Pretty much all publications are just quoting the official statements for now. Everyone seem to have been blindsided.
Depends on your needs. Honestly, you can possibly beat (or at least equal) this level of privacy by using Firefox with the Arkenfox user.js and a couple add-ons (uBlock Origin, for one). This is what I do.
Out of the box, though, Mullvad Browser is going to be more private and more hardened than plain, untouched Firefox. This means users can achieve much better privacy with no more effort than downloading the browser. For someone who doesn't want to do any tinkering, this is a great option. Mullvad Browser also has a portable version, which is cool.
The advantages of Firefox + Arkenfox over this are more customizability and faster updates (meaning you get security patches sooner).
Same deal as Mullvad. Librewolf is just a fork of Firefox with the Arkenfox user.js already incorporated. It's super convenient, and it will get updates a bit slower than vanilla Firefox because the devs have to wait for Firefox to release their update and then patch Librewolf. It's a great option, though. I have a spare PC I use for certain tasks and I don't do much upkeep or browsing on it, so I use Librewolf there to avoid the hassle of remembering to update my user.js and all that junk. It does a great job balancing ease of use and privacy/security hardening, though I'll probably switch to Mullvad Browser at some point soon.
Iceraven is basically just vanilla Firefox. There's a couple small differences and it (probably) doesn't send telemetry back to Mozilla, but otherwise, you're not really getting much of a privacy benefit from using it and updates are slower than stock. The only beneficial thing is that the about:config section is available, but I think that's the case with Firefox Nightly, too (though I might be mistaken).
Mull is another fork that uses the arkenfox profile on mobile, which is really cool, but as of right now, Firefox doesn't offer proper site isolation on Android and isn't the most private option, unfortunately. As much as I dislike Brave for personal reasons, it's probably the best Android browser option today after a few settings tweaks. At least until Mozilla finally gets site isolation going on Android.
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