my browser won't show me the full hostname i'm connecting to. can't reinstall my OS on any of my main devices without phoning home to a manufacturer for crypto signatures. can't install a VPN app without showing ID.

is this dystopia yet?

@sneak no, because you can just use another browser that shows the full hostname and you can just use an other device with linux (...)

@scops all other browsers that show the full hostname are slower than this one, so my options are functional xor fast.

@sneak i wonder what browsers you have/use and what pages you visit... i use firefox with ublock origin (and others with custom configuration files) and don't have performance issues. Yeah, chrome or safari would be maybe faster, but it doesn't matter in daily usage for me. At work (fullstack webdev) i use chromium - because chrome is used by most users of my employer - and there i see the whole url for example.

@scops firefox is spyware