Seconded on NextDNS. It’s like $20/year for the “pro” version (no monthly limits) and I honestly cannot recall the last time I saw an ad on any device I control. The sole exception is my Apple TV, where one of the apps I use has ads injected into the video, so, no way to block those.

If advertisers truly cared about serving the customers they claim to care so much about, the ad networks would have better standards and more safeguards to prevent malware. I’d still block them, I just wouldn’t feel the same level of pride in blocking them for both annoyance and safety factors.

Yes but the difference is they were opting their readers in. Now Google is hijacking content without consent if the site owner.

Doing anything on Facebook is the opposite of private.

One thing most have done is incorporate more air, as part of shrinkflation. That makes it more soft because it’s less actual product.

I’m on LibreWolf. What made you switch?

I’ve had sets of LED under-cabinet lights powered on 24/7 for about 14 years. I think one bulb went bad, out of 12.

I wish they’d propose a mandate on having the option for disconnected vehicles sold in the US, instead. Privacy-conscious people should not have to resort to finding and disconnecting antennas to reclaim privacy from sketchy data collection. I get that China is the big bad wolf in this discussion, but American companies are just as bad with the data hoarding and erosion of privacy.

I always considered atheist to mean “don’t believe at all” ans agnostic as “willing to believe, but won’t live any differently”

Just having the video player be the same across all sites is a win, I don’t even need the multi-threading or pre-cache entire video to love this.

I don’t think I did. I just assumed it would be impossible to detect the home network automatically once WiFi was automatically switched off. Unless off isn’t actually off. Or the “auto on” part was location based.

How does it detect your home wifi if it has turned off wifi? I don’t know Android, but the logic there seems odd. Are you using location services to drive it?

Well that’s downright diabolical…

I thought it was a coating, like what they use to filter UV light. I have Theraspecs that do it, but those are sunglasses.

She was just upselling, not actually knowledgeable. They filter some blue spectrum, not the whole color blue.

Nope, but I also feel like Apple would have it off by default, unlike Microsoft.

They didn’t put “AI” in the subject line of the emails, so Microsoft doesn’t care…

Looks neat. I wonder if the mail proofread and rewrite will work anywhere other than in Mail or Safari, though. If so, it’'d give Outlook users a way better option than forking over $30/month for Microsoft’s extremely sluggish O365 Copilot. I don’t know if that’s any better on Windows, but the O365 Copilot experience on Mac slowed everything down, workflow-wise, when I tested it out a couple months ago. Click button, wait 30 seconds, repeat. Doing this stuff on-device will be great.

At some point they are going to have ad channels with content breaks.

Gardener here, I think it’s too late.

Internet traffic gets mirrored to NSA data centers, that’s old news from the Snowden leak.