Yea, a great adventure. I'm sure young Russians in Ukraine would agree. The neurotoxins that riddled my uncle's body after the Vietnam War certainly shaped his adult life.

Those under 25 might find themselves with a new job as a military conscript late next year.

Sorry if I disturbed your slumber.

It's part of my salary package, I don't have any legal right to refuse. I can either not do it and get fired or quit.

Google ripped ripped uBlock Origin out of Chrome, and replaced it with the useful but inferior uBlock Origin Lite.
Mozilla did not touch it and it still works great on Firefox.

Chrome has a tendency to leak a lot of data in incognito mode. Partially due to Google's own meddling.
Firefox private and Firefox Focus are significantly better, but not perfect. Mostly because trackers have gotten rather sophisticated.

So I don't consider Chrome to be a viable alternative for an every day browser.

Brave can be an interesting choice if you can hold your nose on the whole cryptocurrency scheme.
Mullvad, LibreWolf, etc are fine too. I'm not convinced they're better than Firefox even in its current declining state.

Plus lots of Thorium to make U-233

We've last 50 years defending democracy by ignoring our own.

I'd like to replace my front camera with pepper spray. Get me and the cop trying to force the now fake face unlock.

The invisible hand of the free market has decided there are a lot of customers that are into Nazi shit.

We have a few start ups that are basically just IRC or Jabber with a desktop client that is a bundled Chrome browser. Some of these are billion dollar unicorns now. Amazing how much recycling goes on in the virtual world.

Russia, Iran, and North Korea have nothing on good old American ingenuity.
Nobody fucks the USA as hard or as deep as the USA.

I use yopmail.com for a lot of truly throwaway stuff. I bookmark the account in my browser.
Be aware: the site itself is riddled with ads, which are easily blocked. But the way it works is you don't have to give it any information about yourself, not your name, not your phone number, nor an email. You get a URL to check your inbox, it's all wide open of course, anyone with the URL can ready your email. It's good for those sites that insist on an email address to access features. Once you get that first "verify this email" message you can just treat the address as a black hole.

It's a very different use case than Proton Pass or Firefox Relay.

Distributing the grift according to need is called Socialism.
Concentrating the grift into the pockets of the wealthy is called Capitalism.
Libertarians hate both because they don't like paying taxes.
Fascists love both because they love grift, plus they killed or deported all the undesirables, so no need to worry about hand outs to illegal trans Democrats.

Capitalism working as designed.

You probably about $6-7k a year in taxes, plus a significant amount of economic contributions for rent, and other purchases in the state. Someone better than me at this would have to do the math to find the breaking point, but I suspect it doesn't take very long to break even on a student. And not everyone who comes here ends up becoming a student. (although I think the schools are good and the tuition is a good deal, especially at the smaller public colleges here)