Have you given your email address to any other people you know? If so they probably put it into their contacts. They then use apps like whatsapp, insta, snap, etc which request access to their contacts. These companies then sell that information to ad companies. Tadaaa.

Probably significantly less actually. Because all the encryption and communication protocols are open source and regularily audited, they have become more and more secure. All sides of this conflict have an interest in these systems being secure because everyone indcluding the feds themselves are using them. From looking at actual cases they have to either wait for a zero day to infiltrate a phone remotely or physically compromise it (airport, etc).

Back when every country was developing its own IT systems, it was different, but now everything is globalized. If Russia/Iran/China is suffering from a 0day, chances are the US is suffering from it aswell.

Basically all outdoor images can be automatically geotagged by neural nets developed for this purpose. So you gotta keep it indoor only if you have physical safety concerns.

The more human infrastructure there is, the easier it is to doxx you, but even in the middle of nowhere the neural nets are starting to be very optimized for it. Even the publicly available tools arent too bad and the ones developed for and by the military/feds are probably even better.

If every single person that uses adblock decided to move to Firefox

This is the hypothetical we are talking about. This is obviously not realistic so i dont know what your point is.

Nah it would make a big dent for sure.

Firefox has ~180 million users

Amount of users using adblockers is ~900 million.

It would massively change the market.

Numbers according to mozilla and statista

Good stuff BBC, i wouldnt have been too surprised if they had bombed the hospital with the reporters still inside. Cant wait for the “BBC is Hamas” posts by Israeli officials.