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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by hruzgar on Monday October 02, 2023 @04:18AM (#37735300)
For me at least it helps to know that it's not somehow secretly connected to some American intelligency agency
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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by surrTurr on Monday October 02, 2023 @04:19AM (#37735312)
Japan is not "connected to some American intelligency agency"??
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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by rvnx on Monday October 02, 2023 @04:38AM (#37735455)
If you receive any email from US agencies and you are a Japanese company you can just say “no thank you I’m not interested” and it will most likely stop there.

If you are US company you don’t have a choice as it is the law.

Mozilla, Google, Facebook, Cloudflare, Signal, all have to respect the local laws.

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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by bryanrasmussen on Monday October 02, 2023 @04:41AM (#37735484)
the connection is less direct, less direct connections imply increased safety.
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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by uoaei on Monday October 02, 2023 @05:24AM (#37735826)
Precisely the reason people obfuscate direct connections is so people like you believe this about their products.
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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by bryanrasmussen on Monday October 02, 2023 @07:48AM (#37736947)
People like me? Why thank you, I've always thought they didn't. Good to know.
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Re:Floorp – a customisable Firefox fork from Japan by webmobdev on Monday October 02, 2023 @07:39AM (#37736886)
Japan is part of the Five Eyes Plus alliance that has areed to share intelligence with the US ( https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/fourteen-eyes-countries ).
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