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It does, however, make a certain level of anonymity at least possible as long as you scrub your cookies regularly, never log into the same accounts over the VPN that you were using without it, and never buy anything over the VPN.

In the end, you have to sit down and ask yourself what information you're trying to protect from whom, and how much trouble protecting it is worth. You don't want your nosy cousin who works at your ISP to know you look at furry porn, well, a VPN should be good enough for that (provided you don't use the ISP's DNS). If you're trying to conceal your actions from a nation-state-level observer, you've got a lot more work to do.

I disagree. Doing so reduced the amount of diversity in rendering engines and reinforced the idea that lazy site owners don't have to test against more than one browser. That's a loss for the Web as a whole.

I think the main problem would be the controls. I mean, you could put a tiny bridle on the rat to steer, but how do you shoot? Pull the tail? (How you avoid being bitten while pulling the rat's tail is a separate issue.)

It's a step up from fish playing pokemon, anyway.

It is, but it's so divergent these days that 90% of Mozilla patches won't even apply to the codebase (and presumably vice-versa). My conclusion is that Pale Moon and Goanna are capable of surviving if Firefox development ceases.

Rather like the proportion of spam to legitimate email.

To be exact, there is a noun "affect" whose plural would presumably be "affects", but it's a term of art in psychology and absolutely not the word that is wanted here.

Because they fired the QA department years ago, in favour of non-rigorous testing by users crazy enough to run whatever Microsoft's version of a nightly build is. Because there's no testing plan, some sets of conditions never do get tested.

The "O" word, actually: oligarchs (or their relatives or best buddies). Chances are that at least some of them are under sanction in more civilized countries.

I doubt most owners of recent-model luxury-brand cars in Russia are average joes for which this is their only transport. I therefore find my sympathy to be somewhat limited.

I didn't think the horse was still intact enough that you could find any hide.

Ugh. I hope that there being a use for the little bastards now doesn't make people breed them on purpose.