Lemmygrad is Lemmy

You’re just moving the trust from your ISP provider to your VPN provider. That may be what you want, but just in case that wasn’t clear to you.

Very fitting!

Google has been paying Firefox since before Chrome existed.

The voyager client has filters you could use to try and filter things out.

You should be able to do that with a ublock origin filter.

Maybe ask on the community: !ublockorigin@lemmy.ml

Where do you live? If you live in Northern America, or Europe, you most probably are not in the 1% that have the lowest carbon footprint in the world.

I don’t want to remove any credibility or minimize any of your effort! I wish people would take it as seriously as you are, but just existing in a modern society is horrible for the environment.

Let’s not build anything because there are no users. There are no users if we don’t build anything.

You can download videos and cut off sponsored moments in the video with sponsorblock.

GrayJay is pretty good!

Alternatively, in a similar fashion. Use “hail” to auto pause any app you want so they don’t run in the background unintended.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aistra.hail/

Firefox’s implementation of manifest v3 doesn’t come with the same restriction as Google’s. Ad blockers will still work with manifest v3 on Firefox (but not on chrome).

This means that all manifest v3 extensions made for Chrome work with Firefox, and almost all manifest v3 extensions made for Firefox will work with Chrome.

They already support manifest v3, but with less restrictions than Chrome’s implementation.

Firefox’s implementation of manifest v3 is a bit different than Chrome’s, and still allows for blocking webrequests with no upper limit.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2024/03/13/manifest-v3-manifest-v2-march-2024-update/

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/05/18/manifest-v3-in-firefox-recap-next-steps/

If they make one, you’d have to sideload it.

You can configure it per app. And choose your own block lists.

Rethink DNS

Link to the mozilla research: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/