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They could choose to

I think what I was really trying to articulate is that eventually it seems to happen to everyone when they get big enough.

I could totally be wrong and I might be drawing unfair conclusions like most people, sure I will admit, but this is just how I feel about it. Maybe I shouldn't have said it so matter-of-fact because no I don't have any evidence that this always happens. A company might never get "too big", that's entirely possible too.

For the purposes of my argument I don't consider blender to be "very popular" in the same way that Chrome or even Firefox is. Blender has less than 2% of the number of users that even Firefox has. I think if Blender were to get Firefox-level popular (for example, over 100 million users), then it too would succumb to greedy corporate interests.

If you know of this funding model working successfully at the scale of 100 million users/customers or more, I would be interested to learn about it though.

Yes, but there are forks that are more private and have saner defaults like Mull, however some privacy guides warn against using anything firefox-based on android at all due to lack of process isolation and I think a couple other things.

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/revise-statements-on-gecko-browsers-android-to-make-security-shortcomings-clear/17840

Friendly reminder to define your own threat model and do what makes the most sense for you personally, as many privacy opinions in communities and guides like this might be seen as too extreme to some people... I'm just relaying information I have seen that probably most people haven't.

The problem is in our current society it's simply not possible for something to get very popular without being taken over by a corporation or government, who are usually driven by profits because we live in a capitalist world whether you like it or believe it or not.

IMO It's practically impossible to "block" fingerprinting, as anything that you do block can be tested for and used against you as yet another data point for your fingerprint. You can even fingerprint someone by TLS alone, no html/css/js needed, which CloudFlare uses on a massive scale to great success, unfortunately.

Even anti-fingerprint tactics that use fake/random/lying data can also be tested for (if nothing else heuristically), which tools like creepjs absolutely do make use of and it can accurately detect most such techniques.

How many companies does it take to not become an -opoly anymore?

I thought the money was to protect their monopoly status.

default what?

Um, what makes you think that?

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Unfortunately, everything is political to someone, whether you like it or not. Even doing nothing.

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