Companies always give their best deals to new customers. You are likely paying way higher than market rate for your bills.

Crypto is likely the best solution. You should get some Monero and donate that. You can ask an AI chatbot like Google AI studio how to get some and put it into a self custody wallet in your country.

Wikipedia has enough money to pay their costs for decades, so I recommend dropping them.

Look on a price comparison site. Most of the bill increases are due to the loyalty tax.

You can turn off the fingerprint protection in the Librewolf tab of the settings page.

Morphe takes the official YouTube app and modifies it to remove ads and add background play morphe.software

You should try Librewolf and Helium.

They are a bit untransparent to me with how direct match (inserts affiliate links) and whitelisting of “partner sites” are enabled by default without consent.

Use Librewolf as your main browser with Helium for Google Meet.

Install uBlock Origin and disable any others then the ad blocker problem will be solved.

As for other things, look for backups. If DDG shuts down, search up alternatives. If piefed.social shuts down, find another instance, and do on.

The problem with the internet is not the internet itself, but the big tech platforms.

By using sites like Mastodon and Lemmy, using a browser with uBlock Origin installed, and disabling Web & App activity, personalised ads, etc on your phone, you are taking a stand, and routing around the bad stuff exactly as intended.

I recommend looking at Helium and Cromite as alternatives.

As for Firefox, I don’t like it too, and I’ve wrote a similar post about it on this sub but it got downvoted by -66 points.

Have you tried Cromite?

You should try a normal distro like Mint or Zorin.

Arch and its forks aren’t stable distros and they’re best for experimentation rather than daily use.

This is not TikTok. You can say paedophiles.

You can turn off resistFingerprinting in the settings then disable the URL tracking protection and URL shortener filter lists in uBlock Origin to fix it. I think Librewolf’s default settings are too cautious as Mullvad Browser serves the maximum privacy niche.

Because they used to be a good group but they no longer are.

Librewolf is in-between Firefox and Mullvad so you should try that.

They make money from non-tech savvy people who are recommended Firefox as the pro-consumer alternative but leave it on default settings which are just as bad as Chrome.

Exactly. I have heard a teacher at my college say he’s switched to Firefox to get away from Chrome, however he is clearly not in the know as he has Adblock Plus installed in Chrome on his work machine instead of uBlock Origin.