For Samsung specifically, they flip a fuse if you unlock the bootloader which permanently disables many security features. That is a major issue for anyone wanting to do things responsibly.

I wonder what she would have been able to achieve if she hadn't run into funding issue.

This is so sad and even more so because it was a area of track that has seen incidents before. It does seem there needs to be more changes there.

From my understanding no

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Firefox has specific issues that chromium based browsers don't. A big one is site isolation or keeping one website from accessing data from another. Those problems are worse on Android than desktop. I do use Firefox with uBlock on desktop but Brave on my phone.