Did you try changing the timeout time value? I think the default is 3 seconds…

100% this. They already got caught sharing your health data with Facebook. Don’t think they (insurance companies)won’t buy DNA data en masse.

OP wanted a Chromium browser that wasn’t a massive privacy invasion. With Google stuff removed, it’ll be good enough. Add uBO and ClearURLs.

What’s wrong with ungoogled-chromium?

Maybe TOR uses FF because it’s easier to modify for their purposes.

Others would call that “insecure”

The VPN isn’t generating the requests. Other apps on your device are. Run a VPN for a while and look at data usage by app. I guarantee your VPN app will be the highest (all the other apps data gets funneled through the VPN).

Nobody in this entire thread of FUD has posted a single link to support any claim of Russian data intrusion.

Stop using the DDG Browser.

Librewolf updates all the time, probably weekly (I don’t watch it that closely).

Sentinel dVPN does/did the same thing. You’d connect to their network, pay a Node operator directly with the network’s coin, and you’d use their connection. Don’t know how safe it was, with respect to seeing the through-traffic, but it did work.

These people are definitely not “the first”

I do the same for desktop machines, just to identify immediately without hostnames.

For now. This is a near-future thing.

Why would they sell you something for $50 one time, when they can charge you $9.99 / month forever?

The neat part about this is who gives a fuck. Pick an instance. Go subscribe to some communities. Unpopular not to support the latest witchhunt/bullshittery, I know. Most folks moved past this last year. PG is still up to date and relevant, and PTIO isn’t. I could see how that would make some salty.

Well that’s the worst story so far. Completely unacceptable in every way.

Thank you all for the responses!

It looks like an inexpensive VPS can do the job here, especially if it is just going to be an account server, with no communities.

I haven’t gone through any documentation yet, as I needed this info first.

Are there options for turning off certain things like IP logs, etc, to make it more private (for the users) to keep their info away from admin eyes? Or is all of that necessary for function?

So we won’t be able to save posts? Or just the button will be hidden, but still menu-accesible?

I am also usually in the same boat.

That may be, but they have 100’s of millions of users, and most of them will never entertain an alternative until [insert world-breaking issue/event here].

I wish it didn’t take a system/site/service imploding to get people to try something new.

MySpace got silly, enter FB. Twitter gets Musked, Mastodon finally takes off after years of not. Reddit nukes their own service, Etc.

Not that bad projects shouldn’t die off, but it’s always a reactionary move for the masses, rather than a proactive “let’s try this new thing because it might be better”.