After failing to fund an ubuntu phone, now they're trying their luck again with a not so cheap, not so good hardware (who wants an intel atom instead of arm?).
I use linux but I have come to really dislike ubuntu over time, so this is pointless to me, but I wish them luck.
I cringe when I read their claim to be "the first-ever privacy-focused browser built on chromium". Iron[1] was first released in 2008 to circumvent privacy issues with chrome.
I wonder if they did a really poor job at researching what already exists and are truly clueless about iron, or if they outright lied for marketing purposes.
Hopefully they're not clueless about privacy and are not lying about features, though I would not bet my privacy on "hopefully" specially when epic browser website lacks an https version and epic browser bears a unique fingerprint on panopticlick.
Looks like an attempt at pivoting, jumping of the privacy bandwagon. Doesn't really make a good case that this browser is based on belief of privacy as stated in their faq.
1) we'll take another example, let's say you have your own religious views and those get collected in a database, seemingly no harm done here. Then comes a newly elected government with different religious views who decides people holding the same religious views as yours should wear a distinctive sign to warn the public, then to gather those people in camps, then starts mass killing those people on an industrial scale. This happened before, if it were to happen again in the future you would have no way of hiding facts about you as everything has been collected about you for years.
Are you saying that it is ok to globally disregard privacy, profile users, sell their data/profile without them knowing or getting a part of this profit because it doesn't make your life worse ?
That's probably because you don't grasp what can be done with this data, and for how long this data will be around. The bottom line is in the relation between privacy and freedom.
There's a few point to raise here:
how do you object or prevent the sale of your data ?
how much of the money from the sale of your data went to your pockets ?
what control do you have on your sold data over time ?
Then it's not only about you and your life, ever heard of first they came [1]?
For sure, but in the case of google this probably doesn't apply.
From what was published recently we know NSA has proven methods for bypassing encryption, namely getting the keys used for encryption (so they can decrypt everything) or getting access to the content before encryption or after decryption.
To me this last move by google is a PR attempt at regaining people's trust
I use linux but I have come to really dislike ubuntu over time, so this is pointless to me, but I wish them luck.