“Sent from my iPhone”

Most firefox addons dont even have the permissions needed to change anything a website could observe.

Very strong disagree, I have seen and used many very widely used extensions that manipulate the DOM, which IMO satisfies your criteria of “something that can be observed” i.e. by javascript with a fingerprint tracker like creepjs.

Some examples:

• ad blockers (uBO/uMatrix/etc.)

• color/theme management (dark reader/dark theme/Stylish/etc.)

• custom mouse cursor managers

• page translators

• addons serving in-browser ads

• userscript managers (grease/tamper/violentmonkey etc.)

• privacy blockers (CanvasBlocker/JShelter/etc.)

• site-specific UI improvements (RES, SponsorBlock, youtube/SNS tweaks)

All of these can be detected and included as yet another bit of data that a unique fingerprint can be built from.

perhaps you should look up how creepjs implements detection for known extensions

Yes you’re right, but disabling JS also makes you stand out way more wrt fingerprinting, and you can still be fingerprinted with HTML/CSS, TLS and other methods.

anonymous

browser extension

these two do not mix well. almost any extension can be detected by a site and used to fingerprint you.

https://abrahamjuliot.github.io/creepjs/

and yggdrasil and lokinet

Anyone that’s actually paying attention knows that both candidates are horrible.

wait until you find out where computers and the internet came from.

And people still think those calling it “crimeflare” or “mitmflare” are crazy…

That may be true but if you’re using a frontend then you’re just trusting them with your data instead. Perhaps many of those could be run by people with even more malicious intent. I have interacted with quite a few invidious/piped instance owners, and most of them are quite… unstable individuals.

Hardware compatibility. I have one machine that won’t boot any Linux installer at all. Another with constant gpu driver problems. Another where Bluetooth doesn’t work at all. Another where wifi firmware crashes all the time. It never ends.

I use it every day across many machines. Still continue to have serious hardware compatibility problems with a wide range of devices. It’s extremely frustrating.

I realize not everyone’s experience is the same, but it can still be a really bad time for some people. Maybe the same can be said about Windows too but I still think it’s not as bad.

People don’t know what files and folders are anymore.

Ask a non-tech person where they JUST downloaded something to… they can’t tell you.

unwillingness to learn

If you try to get a professional Photoshop or After Effects or Resolve or Solidworks or Quickbooks etc etc. user to use a FOSS equivalent you will be laughed out of the building.

It’s not that they won’t learn, it’s that the alternatives literally can’t do so much of what people need it to do. And at the same time they most often look worse, are harder to use, and are sometimes less stable.

A prime example myself, I have tried to use kdenlive for YEARS to do simple subtitling. Every few years I try the latest version. Without fail it ALWAYS crashes within 20 minutes.

Same for Audacity. 5 minutes into clipping some audio… crash. 3 times in a row. And it looks dog ugly enough to turn me off to even wanting to try it in the first place.

Or GIMP, it can’t do non-destructive editing, this makes it completely unusable for many professionals.

It’s not just one or two things here or there in these apps, it’s huge sweeping problems across the entire FOSS landscape, almost none of the options are comparable for professional users.

the problem is always hardware incompatibility.

Mint installer does not boot on any machine I have.

if you think FOSS makes anything better for the average user, especially UX, I have a bridge to sell you.

LOL it absolutely is not. Not even close.

does it come with bgp though

as a neteng for 20+ years, what the hell is “home routing”

I honestly can’t even tell what this really is, or who the pricing is for.