I also block a lot of sidebars, sticky title bars that follow you as you scroll, widgets prompting me to chat with a salesweasel and so, so many cookie notice bars because sites still think they’re a get out of jail free card by EU law.
Never occurred to me that that was an option. I’ll need to look up how to do that. Although I imagine it makes your footprint more noticeable.
Mostly searx, then ddg, and google maps, wikipedia and similar direct searches.
I think the solution is the same.
That would definitely be the day I stopped checking in. New reddit looks a lot like what they changed digg into, and is about as useful.
I think most of them I’d be using on windows as well. Like blender, gimp, krita, librewolf, libreoffice, thunderbird, virtualbox, etc… etc… etc… Although it was 15 years ago I had switched to mostly open source applications in the years prior to eventually switching to linux entirely.
If we’re including those then I think we have gone full circle and are back in the safe waters of protocols
Give it a try and let us know.