I think that using gecko based browsers like Firefox is the best thing to do in the short term. But having no competition is a bad thing. So supporting new web engines, like Ladybird, is important too: https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird

Glad to see you use cash. It's often forgotten in privacy advice, despite being one of the most importants.

Apple speaks like overprotective parents that don't want their kids to leave home alone.

I think my first donation would be to GrapheneOS.

The announcer (the enterprise on the ad) pays to the advertising platform (for example Google) which gives a small amount to the site displaying the ad.

None of them have recent updates.

I installed Tubular today. It's a fork of NewPipe with SponsorBlock. Is it the same thing or a different fork?

Is it part of the apps that have been recently sold to a commercial company? If so, you have to uninstall it and download the "Fossify" equivalent to keep the open source version.

I can confirm what the study says. I have different usernames for each community I'm involved in and take care of the reputation of each of them separately.

With an ephemeral name, nothing matters and we can shitpost without restraints.

With my real name, I wouldn't participate at all in many communities.

Updated 18 months ago on F-Droid, but the Github looks still active. I hope they'll soon have a releasable version.

This would help them to improve the algorithms and make it worse. An active defense could be to keep the ads visible and boycott the announcers, so that they lose more money when they pay for advertising.

When I see this, the only viable option I see is to close the site and boycott it. Any other choice would encourage more companies to do this blackmail.