Evidence/source? My understanding is you inherently cannot go back to BFU (before first unlock) state once you’re in AFU unless you reboot.
Again, I’m not talking about simply disabling biometrics unlock – BFU = your decryption key is not in memory yet (at all).
Do a restart (even if you have to hold the power button for 10 seconds). Because at initial boot state, the contents of your phone are encrypted. Any unlocks after the initial unlock, your phone is decrypted and the key is in RAM. Only a password/pin (no fingerprint/FaceID/etc) can be used to decrypt your data.
In lockdown mode, my understanding is that you’re simply disabling biometrics (but not encrypting anything).
Two monitors here, and I totally agree! I was using Brave right before this (I know, I know lol) and originally used a Chrome extension to replicate it. But it was super finicky and only worked like 60% of the time, so I ended up switching. Also a big YouTube watcher, like you.
The guys in business suits consider a “win” just sales and not really public sentiment or anything else that also matters as much (if not more).
This is why business people and actual devs/artists/etc that work on the product should generally run things separately.
To be fair (I’m also old enough to remember and even still have screenshots of OG chrome on my desktop) –
Chrome at the time was stupid fast. Like yes we had Firefox, but it was still the era where most people still clicked on the blue “e” and used Internet Explorer. I myself switched from Firefox when there was core feature parity.
OG Chrome was [comparatively] lean and dumb-fast. But you know, enshittification and feature creep. I also think that Google has changed as a company as time has passed, mostly due to new leadership (e.g. Sundar Pichai).
I switched back after a decade and don’t regret it. In fact, I love that Firefox (desktop) added automatic-PiP. If you’re playing a video, say on YouTube, and you switch tabs, the video continues in PiP until you go back to that tab. I love it.
“It’s never done open heart surgery before, but f it”
Bicentennial Man?
Thank you. I say it because I was genuinely asking the person who replied to me, in case I was wrong. In the context of privacy, it’s extremely important to know for sure.