How so?

The Swedish government can go suck a lemon.

Of course. But in the end it boils down to: company does something I don’t condone, so I don’t give them money.

the fact that even a small political stand that someone dont agree with can turn them against a company or even a person is crazy to me

Why? I try not to buy from companies that employ child or slave labour (Nestlé) or drain the water supply in drought regions (also Nestlé) or companies that support fascists (Müller and apparently Proton) because voting with my wallet is the only choice I have for even a slim chance of making my opinion heard in this capitalist hellscape.

Does Fwy usually speak of themselves in third person?

Oh, don’t get me wrong. Chrome and derivates are also terrible for spying on your every click. And unless it’s a de-Googled chromium fork it absolutely still phones home to Google. Not quite as much as chrome, but still quite a bit.

Except it kinda does. It reinforces the dominant position Chrome has. A browser mono-culture, if you will. Google doesn’t need to go through proper channels to establish a new standard if they can just set the de-facto-standard by supporting or, maybe more important, not supporting something in Chrome. And since Manifest v3 ad-blockers and other content filters are severely hampered, which only serves Google’s ad-revenue but also hinders accessibility extensions. Mono-cultures just aren’t healthy.

Also I think most people do change there default browser but they change it to Chrome ):

They don’t need to change it to chrome, they’re already using it. Every browser except for Firefox, with its derivatives, and Safari are Chrome. Plus a few more esoteric choices that are nowhere near daily-driver ready.

Yes, but I think we’re talking about a very small percentage. The vast majority will just go “man, that sucks” and continue using it because they’re too lazy to leave their comfort zone. Most users don’t even change the default browser, which is arguably one of the easiest things to change.

“Open source” is still commonly used to mean FOSS. Source available software isn’t common enough to have made its way into the broader vocabulary.

What do you mean? I usually find Wikipedia’s explanations quite helpful. Maybe a little heady at times, but always factual.

And then Americans are surprised people aren’t exactly fans of the US… 🤷🤦

Of the internet? Probably not. Of the independent internet? Maybe.

Proton?

My only gripe with this page is that it’s in the browser and it keeps recognising a back gesture (swipe from the edge of the screen) whenever a word starts with q or p.

Shockingly, those are also getting rarer.

Given previous more or less similar projects this is likely to get sued out of existence by Google.

Worked fine for me. Might just have been the first rush.

You can’t possibly have misunderstood the issue so fundamentally, can you?