I’m quite surprised Proton would use Gizmodo as a source. A quote from their articles first paragraph: “[as] Apple and Google beef up privacy”.

I guess they mean all the tech companies try to block each other so that they collect all the data themselves…

All the ONT boxes I’ve seen in houses have fiber directly to the box.

Assuming everyone will have pihole “configured correctly”, not mentioning how to do that, saying you don’t need ublock if you have a pi hole (it does more than black ads). All in all a terrible comment.

You make it sound like a savvy business decision to double dip with subscriptions and ads. They choose to give it away with prime to get market share from Netflix. All that’s changed is they’ve decided you’re ready to be bent over a barrel now.

So, you and your friend were talking about a subject you obviously are interested in, likely spend heaps of time online searching about, commenting and following on social media and you’re surprised you got an ad for it? Bonkers.

Some of your recommendations on extensions are a bit out of date

Gawker media was sued into the ground by a billionaire quite a few years back for posting an article about him being gay and now it just exists to make as much money from adverts as possible until it dies.

It used to be quite a good group of sites for tech news and such.

Thanks, will definitely check out this unnamed extension.

How many should we accept?

The space per $ is unbeatable & they are surprisingly durable and long lasting. Snazzy Labs on YouTube has a good video on the subject if interested.

Yeah, privacy badger and ghostery are no longer recommended, unlock origin will do their job (better).

Porkbun have easy privacy options for free, and right on the domain management page. CloudFlare too of course. Also, if you go for a random TLD, like .XYZ or something, do a quick check it supports privacy settings before purchasing.

Others?

Say phones are roughly 8mm thick nowadays & have roughly 20 hours or less screen on time - making them .5 thicker doesn’t equate to 7 times more capacity. Duracell brought out a mammoth of a brick that had decent battery in 2019.

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/2/26/18241117/energizer-power-max-p18k-pop-huge-battery-phone-mwc-2019

If you’re into it you can watch tech youtubers go to those big conferences where they show off prototypes of their newest tech, earlier this year they were demoing rolling and pull out screens on phones and laptops, among other stuff.

For the batteries your outta luck for now due to a SOB called physics.

Companies make what sells, and flat candy bars sell. All the companies you mentioned went out of business (at least in the smartphone sector) due to not selling iPhone clones. I’m not saying that’s a good thing btw. I wish we had hoverboards & holograms too dude.

I’m pretty content with my folding phone for now though.

Would be interested to know if they bought one since it’s exactly what they are looking for.

I think that’s why small phones are going extinct; people are adamant they want one but don’t actually buy them.

A great description. Although regarding VPN’s and public wifi, I don’t know of any banking or similar sites that aren’t using https nowadays, so man in the middle attacks aren’t such a danger. Not to say you shouldn’t use a VPN anyway, you might as well always be connected to one.

Channel Islands*

Nice.

Nice.