Piracy tools are a direct replacement for streaming services. Thats kind of the point of them. In fact they are better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker

My MITM attack concerns mainly regard stingray use. Since ill be routing through cellular for everything.

Huh? Distrust the encryption? I never said i didnt trust my encryption. Im confused lol. Im looking to make sure my local network is secure. The VPN i have is fine for security on the internet.

I had asked Chat GPT about it and got some suggestions for my firewall settings, and about making sure the router management interface is not accessible remotely etc.

It can cause issues with things like virtual machines but that just means you need to configure them to work with it.

You need to disable secure boot for the installation process, but you can turn it back on afterwards. Secureboot just blocks the changes your new install needs to make once its installed it wont mess with anything, and you should have it on to prevent things like rootkits.

Yeah i mean true if its just an issue with their org then thats a different case. I do think that sort of money making model would work well though so maybe it could be used to fund a new browser.

Something ive actually wondered is if firefox is hurting for money so bad why doesnt it allow a toggle where a user can willingly just turn every purchase via the browser into a firefox affiliate link? If the user is approving it and its not a shady forced thing i see no issue with it, and it would generate plenty of revenue without needing to be beholden to ad companies or google. It’d be like allowing users to donate, without actually costing them any extra money, everytime they make an online purchase.