"multi-pronged privacy", "easy button", "capabilities", and repeated use of the word "protection" are all signals that what is being said is an attempt to sell me something and that the salesman should be doubted.
What's actually happening is you're forced to allow Microsoft scripts which do indeed do telemetry on users despite some restrictions you put on them, and they're still effective because fingerprinting works. That fact is embarrassing for a product you're trying to sell as promoting privacy so there's this mildly deceptive attempt to hide what's going on with lots of words and claims of protection instead of straightforward disclosure.
Still coming to my own conclusion here, but I wouldn't dismiss "easy button" as marketing. We keep hoping for easy buttons and reasonable default settings in things like openssl or pgp. I do like organizations that understand an easy button is the safest default. Is that what we have here?
I'm commenting only on the rhetoric, calling it an "easy button" stinks of marketing BS. People desiring simple straightforward tools is a separate subject.
Of course it’s marketing. My mom doesn’t want to set up uBlock and a script blocker and a Pihole. She’d love to click a button and be safer. What’s the issue here?
That I am on HN and someone trying to convince me their company isn't being shady is using evasive marketing speak instead of candor to an audience that clearly knows better than to believe the weasel words.
What's actually happening is you're forced to allow Microsoft scripts which do indeed do telemetry on users despite some restrictions you put on them, and they're still effective because fingerprinting works. That fact is embarrassing for a product you're trying to sell as promoting privacy so there's this mildly deceptive attempt to hide what's going on with lots of words and claims of protection instead of straightforward disclosure.