> I mean to express distaste for people who tend to loosely throw the terms "privacy" and "security" around, especially when recommending laundry lists of configuration options, patches, extensions, etc.
This is a much, much more useful description. And I'd agree. Usability is a critical part of privacy and security, and recommendations for tools that cater exclusively to advanced users (whether the tool developers realize that or not) can do more harm than good.
Not just recommendations for advanced tools, but the unfortunate reality that they are currently necessary means. I reiterate - this functionality must be made upstream, accessible, and visible.
I find that "upstream" might be at odds with security/privacy, both in terms of funding and data collection (benign reasons being debug/crash data collection as well as "what and how do people use this")
This is a much, much more useful description. And I'd agree. Usability is a critical part of privacy and security, and recommendations for tools that cater exclusively to advanced users (whether the tool developers realize that or not) can do more harm than good.