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You raise an important issue around persistence of state.

The question isn't whether you need to recompile source, change config files, download application plugins or set-up a bunch of check-boxes in a nice GUI.

It's whether you can trust those settings to stick.

I've lost count of people telling me that phone settings I suggested simply "reverted" or somehow turned themselves back on/off.

Even some Linux distros that use Snap alongside auto-updates etc are really quite sneaky.

But to my mind web browsers (and I include all of them, Chrome, Firefox or whatever) are utterly treacherous.

Any careful security stance requires constantly checking and re-checking that policies are still in effect.




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