> US manufacturing has pretty much been constantly

Middle class manufacturing jobs have fallen off a cliff and completely destroyed huge swaths of our country. Take a tour around Bridgeport, CT sometime as a great example. The northeast is littered with towns like this. These executives and their buddies in Congress mortgaged our middle class for profits by sending all our industry to Asia.

It's called a network tap, or port mirroring.

I unpacked the XPIs and inspected the JavaScript source. Nothing suspicious (remote URLs, obfuscated code, etc) looking in there.

Do firefox extensions auto update? This is the type of extension I rewrite into my own private Tampermonkey script.

Auto-update is configurable per extension, so you could shut it off.

I’ve recently decided to only buy products made in the USA, if at all possible. If that’s not available ideally Germany, France, or maybe Japan.

I’ve noticed that products tend to originate in these countries because the manufacturer has decided to prioritize quality. As a bonus I’m much less concerned about contributing to horrible labor conditions.

I personally put my heart and soul into ensuring that the things I make are exceptional. I’m not going to accept less from the products I rely on for long periods of my life. If I’m not going to need it for a long time I probably don’t need it.

I like OpenBSD. I issue a 'ps -ax' and can see a short list of processes which I understand the purpose of, I feel like I understand more or less how the OS works without being a systems/kernel programmer.

When I do the same with Ubuntu I get a massive list of processes, most of which I don't understand or recognize. I'm back to the Windows feeling that the OS is a transcendent black box, but now with no Microsoft Office, power management, and display (esp multi-monitor) bugs.

I love the idea of Linux but it seems like the less practical option.

There is no avenue to escape the rich from creating profit at the expense of the masses. Digital privacy serves neither the government nor the wealthy executives helming these corporations so it will never happen. The public is apathetic and preoccupied with rising food and housing costs. The merits of digital privacy won’t fix any of this.

I wouldn’t touch their cameras with a 10-foot pole anyway because they don’t follow the ONVIF spec and so can’t inter operate with anything else (vendor lock in).

Add to that Cookie Autodelete and uMatrix

Why would there be a “discussion”? They knew their users didn’t want this anti-feature before they implemented it and they did it anyway.

Then they add insult to injury by pretending to “discuss” it as if user consent or participation has anything to do with this.

We have been taking the feedback seriously, we rolled back our ToS changes and are reconsidering our approach here. More info can be found on the issue

Lego has an extremely low manufacturing tolerance which makes it very expensive to produce, but also is responsible for the quality you see. Most people wouldn’t assume such precision manufacturing goes into something that’s sold as a toy.