They would need to run their own instance, which might not be something they want to do

That would be $249.99 please

Well, I realize that 1970s sounds like an age of dinosaurs to some people… But, people back then weren’t cavemen. They had electricity, batteries, video cameras, telephones.

The concept of an electric outlet in a couch is easy - not sure, but they might even had such things back then. Like to feed a lamp or something. USB is just low voltage and different connector, from the power transmission perspective.

The concept of a speakerphone with video signal is also easy. The only thing to grasp is that the devices and batteries became that miniature and efficient. Oh, and wireless.

Explaining that all video and voice recordings from all these neat devices are actually stored by a gigantic corporation, processed with voice and face recognition algorithms, and used to enrich personal profiles collected on all parties of the conversation to boost profits of said corporations, and many people even pay for this - THAT I would find complicated to explain.

Fennec is a poor alternative because it connects to Firefox services. Sync is optional, but some internal components will talk to Mozilla, and Mozilla changed their mind about “never selling your data” recently.

Brave is Chrome with a history of suspicious moves, toxic leadership, involvement with crypto and AI

It’s not a very bad idea. Tor browser provides good tracking resistance in clearnet, but there are more chances that uneducated person leaks personal information there and at the same time will have a false feeling of safety because they are using Tor, not Google Chrome.

LibreWolf is a decent alternative. I switched to it a while ago as Firefox enshittification required more and more tweaks in configuration to close leaks.

I’ve heard good things about Mullvad browser too especially on fingerprint resistance, but LibreWolf works for me well enough to not search for alternatives.

For rare sites that I need to use and which don’t work in Firefox based browsers, I just use Brave.

And Mullvad is not in business if selling user profiles to advertisers, at least as far as we know

Because the data used in browser fingerprinting is also used to render pages. Example: a site needs to know the size of browser window to properly fit all design elements.

No. I’m using Tor for Reddit all the time since they banned VPN. Reddit even has their .onion site

FAKE NEWS!!! Why would you want to pull an ancient lever mechanism if you can do it in a few taps on the touch screen. Sure, unless you have a premium subscription, you’ll have to watch a short video from our partners, tailored individually just for you.

Well, luxury and rich are closely related terms, aren’t they? I think what you described is a financial independence.

I’d add that if you can support your desired level of luxurity for yourself and your family without working anymore - that’s being rich.

Edit: I misread the original question, which was asking about wealthy, not rich. Still, I think my answer applies

Social Security fund invested in government bonds, so the interest from that goes into the fund.

To be fair the budget deficit was there before Trump. His campaign promises are going to increase it, but they can offset that partially with spending cuts. Also, the government has been using money from the Social Security fund routinely, again nothing new under Trump. They just count it as an internal debt. According to Wikipedia, by 2022 it’s been already about 20% of the fund “borrowed” by the government.

Apple does extensive audit of mobile apps, including limitations of tracking. So the app cannot spy on something you are not letting it to know. But you are giving it a bunch of info voluntarily.

I’d say using that app on iOS is similar to making a food delivery order using a loyalty member ID. Basically, you are letting the company (McDonald’s) know who you are, what is your phone number, where do you live, and what do you like to eat. And if they wish to, they could use all that to purchase your profile from a data brocker. Or they can sell that info for a few cents to make up on that discount.

Wrong guess. There is Germany on the list

This petition is for developing something dubbed “EU-Linux”, so if implemented as is will be pretty uniform

Nice try fed /s

But if you are genuinely curious, here are a few things you can pay for with XMR:

1. You can pay for VPN, many providers like iVPN and Mullvad accept it.
2. There are anonymous hosting platforms like https://njal.la.
3. Recently I discovered Nostr, which is a distributed Twitter alternative less centralized than Mastodon, and there are paid relays you can purchase access to with Monero.

I personaly donate to some Russian media outlets with XMR, which is not exactly a service purchase, but a good way to help them to survive government pressure.

Mostly holding with occasional spending on services that do accept it

The article is not current, but now it’s not the first time people voted for Trump. 2018 wasn’t Biden’s term.

This looks cool. Would be great if this technology will take a flight. Lockheed Martin is also developing a supersonic civil airplane, X-59 is scheduled for a test flight this year. Comparing both projects is hard given the scarce technical details, but the Chinese plane has much higher maximum speed.

Jeez, what an impressive troll work in the comments