That's not people on Slashdot it's people on Springer. Your reply therefore is self-admonishing.

As Tom wended to school after breakfast, he was the envy of every boy he met because the gap in his upper row of teeth enabled him to expectorate in a new and admirable way. He gathered quite a following of lads interested in the exhibition; and one that had cut his finger and had been a centre of fascination and homage up to this time, now found himself suddenly without an adherent, and shorn of his glory. His heart was heavy, and he said with a disdain which he did not feel, that it wasn't anything to spit like Tom Sawyer; but another boy said "Sour grapes!" and he wandered away a dismantled hero. -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

You smell lunacy without knowing anything. Are you sure you aren't sniffing on your own issues ?

Moryath, the Twitter files are as solid as evidence can get. You've just lost the argument.

I don't think so.

There's always a tradeoff between irrelevant properties. Diversity and accuracy are irrelevant properties.

Greenpeace and other environmental groups have staged vocal protests against the plan, including by dropping a banner down the front of the Reichstag building Friday. They argue that the government's road map won't reduce Germany's greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to meet the targets set out in the Paris climate accord.

Is it really necessary to mention "Greenpeace and other environmental groups" ?

It's not by itself. Pale Moon decided to stop using Patreon because of Patreon's political bias. That doesn't make Pale Moon political; it simply wishes to stay out of politics.

You cannot be lecturing others about privacy while making deals with Google, the worst privacy abuser on the planet.

Yes, but when there are dozens of these guys, you have valuable data. Eg. Firefox fanbois at Reddit, in resonance with their moderators, hate Brave. They were key in my decision to switch to Brave from Mozilla, and after testing a few other browsers when I had available time, I found that indeed Brave was the best choice for me.

The W.H.O. 's integrity is certainly suspect

It certainly isn't. A pandemic shall not be transformed to a polemic.

I've been reading reactions at comment pages, and they remind me of how AMD fanboys reacted here at Slashdot many years ago when the first story about Core2 was published. They too didn't appreciate the news and the change of times they would entail. For me personally, a well-sized group of annoyed fanboys is an even stronger endorsement.

But its nice to see Torvalds being excited with his hardware.

They won't fix that; they rely on this image for lobbying on Google's behalf.

Thanks I'll have a look at Bromite.

I own a Xiaomi phone with Miui. I do remember when I first opened its default Browser there was a popup informing me about data collection & consent, so I think Xiaomi is right. However, I didn't want to face a dilemma between Xiaomi and Google (which is MUCH worse), so I simply installed Firefox.