1. Software has bugs.
2. Bugs which interface with and execute untrusted code are high risk.
3. Browsers are obscenely large pieces of software, which connect a user’s system with random websites which execute JavaScript.

Browsers are one of the most important things to update on your computer.

We can talk about whether browsers should be as complicated as they are, but implying security updates are a intended as a vector of control is conspiricist thinking.

The reason you don’t get security updates backported to your older release of choice is simple: it is so much work.

Waterfox seems like a good choice, just don’t go around thinking that companies are making security updates in order to sneak in unwanted, they make security updates because they are terrified of being responsible for a major incident.

Makes me appreciate that my country’s typical honourific (mate) is gender neutral.

If any were it’s not like we would know, secrecy being rather important to that kind of activity.

They don’t have to care about the minority affected to be impacted; it affects readiness, which will affect them.

Laws which cause people to leave due to feeling unsafe will require others to be brought in to fill their roles, who are in-turn coming from somewhere else.

It’s not a crippling issue (for a military) by any means, but laws that fuck with the readiness of a base piss a lot of people off.

Definitely not saying any military is a font of diversity and acceptance, but their most important asset is their logistics so fucking with that will not win you a ton of friends there.