When the list says "Debian" or "Ubuntu" it includes all software in Debian and Ubuntu. That includes software like Google Chrome, Firefox, Python, Ruby, etc. For example out of the 40 listed in 2019 in Debian 36(!) are Google Chrome bugs, not Debian bugs.
Do go ahead and count CVEs in Windows and Windows software (games, office, databases, browsers, etc.) and come back with your results for an apples to apples comparison or go back to Reddit and troll.
There isn't any question at all that Facebook is forced upon you. Many things are only available on Facebook - even some official government stuff and lots of businesses use it for things workers cannot do without (working hours shared on Facebook etc.). Clearly it should not be allowed to harvest data without consent from people forced to use its platform.
That Facebook even mentions YouTube as a direct competitor is laughable and shows they have no case for appeal. They might as well had said Netflix or the library!
1 in 4 is better than 0 in 4, which is what most of the worlds traffic sees outside northern europe. I also don't really believe it is close to as bad as 1 in 4. Studies I have seen seem to say it works almost every time but maybe not perfectly so.
Have you tested if Firefox use more RAM when low on free memory? Using unused RAM is better than not using it. Looking at amount of RAM used by an application is not a useful benchmark. Unless your are seeing swapping Firefox is doing The Right Thing.
>"“China is not just cheap. It’s a place where, because it’s an authoritarian government, you can marshal 100,000 people to work all night for you...”"
It has nothing to do with China and everything to do with The US. Workers work night-shifts all over the world and on-call workers are also everywhere. It has nothing to do with the type of government and everything to do with the US workforce and Apple being too cheap to pay the cost.