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I'll agree that their mobile experience is not great, they don't support tablet layouts for example, but it still has the best support for ad blocking. I consider that essential for the modern internet. My big concern is that we're repeating the Internet Explorer issue all over again, where the web is coded for it instead of standards. Now Google has the ability to strong arm the Internet by not adopting standards, pushing their preferences, etc. Web sites are being coded coded to run on better on Blink than Gecko so it gets worse all the time. If we give up on Mozilla the Internet will fall even further into the hands of big tech.

I don't get this argument. Mozilla and Firefox is the best we have. Are they perfect, no, but don't let perfect be the enemy of good. They are still a lot better than the alternatives. It's obviously important to hold Mozilla accountable, but I worry that all the negativity makes people just stick with Chrome or Edge because they think it's all the same.

Sure, but most people don't need encode. The start of this thread talks about encoding, but the person you replied to didn't specify. My guess is they're just talking about playback.

Cryptography.

You don’t need HW acceleration to playback AV1. Maybe they watch most of their content at 720p and are software decoding and it’s been good enough.

If you have a firewall then make yourself a new network and block it from accessing the internet. Then you can use the smart features that your TV might have, such as powering it on/off, controlling it with Home Assistant, etc and also feel safe knowing that can’t happen again. Hope your replacement TV comes with the older firmware and you get another go at it.

If you ever decide to set aside time to tackle a re-install, you should consider setting up a file system that supports snapshots, or since you’re used to only using flatpaks, an immutable distro. Then you won’t fear updates because you can easily roll back as if they didn’t happen.

That workaround is slowly coming to an end as these devices start making DNS requests using DOH, which you will not be able to redirect, and will be much harder to detect and block. The cat and mouse game of having a piece of technology you bought work with your interests in mind continues…