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Not open source but free software
Linux user? They obviously talk about DOS
Wait, am I led to believe that they wrote all of DOS in assembly? Or did they only release the compiled version to screw with people?
Yes and yes (altough I think you meant transpiled) :D
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FOSS has many advantages, but thinking that FOSS is synonymous with security and privacy is a very common mistake, they are not the main purpose in FOSS https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux.html
Except FLOSS is usually better for privacy at least. Because you can’t hide tracking code in FLOSS software, and a lot of FLOSS software is targeted to privacy conscious people.
All Google APIs, also this from Amazon and Facebook are FOSS and are incorporated and linked to a lot of other FOS. Mozilla and FF itself, FOSS unclude trackers from Alphabet INC and others. Yes, as developer you can see and controll the millon of lines of code of an OS, but you need also control to see to where are pointed some scripts. Who want to do tis? As normal user seeing the code or not is irrelevant. FOSS has colaborative reasons, between other tecnológicals, but in privacy and security isn’t better or worse as any other soft. Chromium itself is entirely FLOSS, but default Chromium it has little private or secure, at least if all Google APIs are not eliminated first, but this makes it less stable and compatible, the same, although to a lesser degree, in Firefox and forks. Mozilla has signed with the devil for funding and relies on Google like many others. Security and privacy on the front line depends on the user himself and the measures he takes to make it so, not the OS or type of software he use.
Just use ungoogled chromium
Not so easy https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/issues/640. Ungoogled Chromium still lacks a lot of features which depends only of the community to implement thhem in a valid way. Nowaday it needs to add a lot of patches to avoid incompatibilities with some webs.
Vivaldi is ungoogled from parts which filters userdata to Google and the user can use or not the rest of them as their need in the security and privacy stting of the browser. For some Google services, mainly in professional ambit, banking, etc. there are no valid or good alternatives of some Google APIs in Chromium.
Privacy settings in Vivaldi
