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   Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Monday, 20-Mar-2023 09:39:41 JST Terminal Autism

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   It may be a Firefox type of situation. Saying they won't do it so that people think that this doesn't matter and won't affect them, but then after half a year it's removed from Brave too and then everyone is fucked. Of course, I'm not gonna fall for that, fuck Brave, I'll go with Basilisk. Or even webkit or webengine browser, though those lack extensions. Really, I'll stop using the internet before I accept watching fucking ads.
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     寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Monday, 20-Mar-2023 09:39:41 JST 寮

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     If ads and trackers are the only things you want to block, you could consider using a PiHole, or even easier, modify the /etc/hosts file to block all the spyware hostnames, and then you can use whatever browser you want.
     
     But the clearnet is so hopelessly broken, there's a massive need to block far more than that, like all the covAIDS propaganda (which will finally be gone soon), 3rd party JS and CSS (just fucking learn how file management works before you code!), custom fonts (browser default is the only font you need!), and other bloat.
     
     And if you go down the /etc/hosts based blocking path, you'll quickly see bars of empty divs everywhere, because soytes reserve that space for ads, which uBlock Origin can remove those divs along with the ads.
     Hell, last time I checked Mixi in a WebkitGTK browser, I was shocked by the sheer amounts of ads littered all over the page, it made their propaganda literally unreadable!
     At least we have a privacy condom for that now: https://mixi.owacon.moe
     And yes, owacon.moe is the new domain specifically for privacy condoms hosted by 076.