Didn’t they allow Microsoft telemetry through the tracking protection since they rely on Microsoft for all sorts of stuff despite their “avoid big tech” advertising? There’s so many better options, like Librewolf, Mullvad, Orion, Mull, even Brave if you really want a Chromium browser.
Sounds a lot like email where it is really difficult to self-host your own email server since you’ll be flagged as spam. It seemed like something that would happen to Lemmy eventually, but I didn’t think it would be a strong possibility this soon.