That'd certainly be a good feature, but it feels to me like it's a fairly niche need. And as per that post, it's also a big technical effort. I can see why there isn't anything in the way of development updates.
That is me being a bit of an apologist for Firefox though. If you consider Firefox unusable because of that, then that's a pretty valid frustration.
Still, I'd encourage you to try and find a way to make it work for you because Chrome is evil.
Ublock origin has cookie banner filters. I didn't have this problem, I assume that's why.
Edit: autocorrect
Nothing too complex, no. KDE desktop, some stuff from the AUR. LVM on LUKS.
Perhaps it's more fair to say that Arch takes more effort to maintain than any other well known distro except Gentoo (or LFS, if one considers that well known).
I found keeping up to date on a fairly bleeding edge rolling release distro exhausting. I would, too often, come across issues with updates that required manual intervention to solve. And the AUR can be a crapshoot as far maintainers keeping them up to date and applying fixes. Nothing unmanagable, but not an enjoyable experience for me.
No hate intended on Arch though. I think it's one of the best distros out there, and the Linux community as a whole is better off for it's existence. But it's not something I want as my daily driver, and I suspect from what OP wrote, it might be the same case for them.
Edit: Reworded AUR bit for clarity.
There's a strong inference to the point of being pretty obvious but the infographic doesn't explicitly say that the person on the left owns the magazine on the right so I checked the first two to confirm that's the case.
Arch requires a lot of effort to maintain.
I use rsync for this purpose and the only notable bottleneck is my download speed, fwiw.
I was thinking more as a gateway to finding new people in person. Once established, you can choose a different means of staying in contact.
But if any amount of usage may lead to self harm then don't, of course.
Hopefully some better advice comes along that doesn't involve compromising your ideals, which is what I'm about to suggest.
It seems to me the most likely way to meet likeminded people is to find groups and events in your area. And you're going to have the most luck with those big privacy invading social media services. It sucks, yes. But it also increases your chances of creating local friendships.
Up to you if it's worth it or not, of course.
Speaking as an atheist, can confirm.
Apology not needed.
I agree with you. The ozone layer is a great example of this being successful. And there are other examples of this kind of issue elsewhere. Like the we have to push for user repair rights or against planned obsolescence (which one could argue this is planned obsolescence, in thinking about it).
A small number of informed users won't disincentiveize companies from abusing the masses. Because most companies are garbage so of course they will if they can. And regulations are the solution. I'm not suggesting we ignore that. But those of us who are informed can still incentiveize those companies that do treat their customers well in the interim.
I concede to the point though. I said, in effect, that supporting businesses that treat us well will help. But I suppose it's more accurate to say that will, at best, stop things from getting worse.
They can be slow to adopt changes. I think the Mozilla foundation getting more funding, staffing, and refocusing on their browser would be the better solution.
While Chromium is an open source project, it is still developed and maintained by Google. For something as important as a web browser, I think it's imperative that there's an option outside of their control.