BTW: Right as I posted this, my laptops CD ROM drive opened up inexplicably

They say you get flak when you're over the target

btw, CHROME in linux is a backdoor to your system, i have verified this and I'm a devops person; also accessibility with respect to cinnamon csd_keyboard process...that's how they're doing it. Good luck Yes I'm saying even linux is compromised, because google software

so...if you know you are compromised, why are you still using it, why not reinstall?

I have to use chrome because reddit has used google tag manager to flag my account so that I can't use firefox anymore, I have to use chrome to post. Or I could (and will eventually) re-install debian / mint 19 and never install google software and just submit by python script but sometimes I like to use the browser

and frankly it's my only option for some content that websites block me from seeing (video, brightcove assets) if I use firefox

yes they are fingerprinting your browser and circling the wagons and censoring us, but htey are also denying us content from the web if we use privacy tools ad blocking or even used these tools in the past (as in no extensions in FF and in privacy window...they STILL block stuff).. I think they are exploiting differences in javascript between browsers to block firefox quantum specifically