semi-related: I do get a jolly deep belly laugh when "a threat to national security" is loosely tossed out as doublespeak for "an augment to individual privacy".

Without a VPN or tor on at least some of those browsers, though, I imagine the metadata strewn about could get stitched back together on the data-broker (ad-tech) end of all those transactions.

this is why RMS ssh's into a pine server to read email, i reckon.

Yandex is absurdly compromised