> Mozilla Firefox

The browser that's has Google Analytics integrated, comes with pre-installed third-party tracking app, and that reports home every UI interaction you have? No, thanks, I'll stick with Iridium.

[1] https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/firefox.html

>No, thanks, I'll stick with Iridium

...which was last updated may 2018.

<s>Whole two months!</s>

As long as there are no missing security updates, I don't see how it's a deal breaker.

> https://protonmail.ch

No IMAP/POP3 on free account is such a turn off

Have to pay the bills. If you value a service, pay for it.

I imagine they're worried about their service being used to send spam, which would trash their reputation as a sender.

You can’t spam using either of those protocols.

1. Sign up for an account to comment, using a free email account

2. POP3/IMAP your email to your bot, clicking any links

3. Write spammy comments

Sure, you have a point. But I've noticed that nobody blacklists new domains, so using existing providers would be a waste of time for most of such operations.

> Achievements, Trading cards/Inventory, Browser, Community, Workshop

Doesn't all of that work through embedded web-browser?

I think the embedded browser is where the most bloat is located. Although this particular vulnerability is not tied to it.

It work through a slow embedded web-browser.

Displaying achievements yes, but obtaining them has to interact in some ways with rest of the client. Trading cards and inventory probably too.

Valve's Steam uses VGUI toolkit (proprietary), and a WebKit-based embedded browser.

This, I guess

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/linux...

You think government-run bot armies would comply with government issued ban? Oh boy.

They actually did a sort-of merger for post-Soviet territory

https://yandex.ru/blog/company/130717

https://www.uber.com/ru/blog/future-uber-yandex/

Here's an alternative if you would prefer a desktop app

https://zealdocs.org/

Didn't organisations like TSA already have rights to look through your phone/laptop at the US customs? I read quite a few articles urging foreigners to wipe their personal devices before coming to US if they care about their privacy.

TSA doesn't operate at the border. That's CBP.

> So easy to lose it or forget it.

Or break it. After I broke my Nexus4's screen three times I gave up and bought some cheap Zenfone (and it cost as much as one screen repair for Nexus).