Watchtower exists, but iirc it is not maintained anymore.

What does this mean? Waterfox turning into Brave-like browser, which is Chromium, but for Mozilla forks?

Will not be surprised if they (Big tech) somehow gatekeep US users if jolla gets more traction.

I don’t use it and don’t plan on using it, but why would one really like to use it?

You would rid yourself of the Windows virus you probably currently have on your computer.

What kind of processing is happening really under the hood, is there an image preprocess, lang detection, script detection, orientation, etc?

I feel like Bertrand Russel trying to figure out whether the essay you posted is actually harmful then…