Email is never “end to end encrypted” outside of layering something else on like PGP- which you could use with any email service.

Collecting paychecks for being controlled opposition?

multiple code deletes

That’s not how open Source works…

These projects focusing on configuration changes and feature removal demonstrates their lack of creative potential.

Who cares if they fork? They don’t have the ability to do anything but sit on dead code at that point.

threat of violence

Do you understand what an analogy is?

Anyways, Firefox is the project. All of those other “projects” are mostly configuration changes of the upstream project- not even code changes.

When Firefox decides to become hostile to those “other” browsers you use- they’ll be able to do fuck all about it.

they’re coming up to my front door with a battering ram

Let’s see how this plays out.

DivestOS was also cool while it was developed.

flashed … custom software

Any hints on where one might find details on this?

Included warranties are typically very short and extended warranties are worthless.

I haven’t really dug into this, but AirGuards github page claims the app scans periodically and will give you a notification on suspicious results.

Aha. It appears Google’s release of android has that sort of functionality baked in. I wasn’t aware of that.

Still, it seems out of scope for an operating system.

It looks like the EFF recommends some app called “AirGuard”- even over using the built in scanners.

With a term that broad- how is anyone supposed to answer you?

In an app? On a website? Something you suspect the hardware might be doing?