Currently I just deal with the banners (as annoying as they are) and shed a tear at the state of the modern internet.

In case you didn’t know, the “I don’t care about cookies” extension was recently sold to Avast. I don’t know if anyone has seen them make any sketchy changes yet, but personally I didn’t want to trust them and uninstalled it

archive.org link to get around paywall.

I like it so far. The tech seems good, it’s not that hard to wrap your head around the federated aspect, but as always the life and death of a platform like this is in the community. If a decent amount of people decide to come to Lemmy, I think it will be great.

I use kagi. It’s pretty nice, though it’s not free.

Thank you for the tip, I’ve been fighting this damn problem for hours trying to figure out why my instance wasn’t able to make external requests.

Popped in a third network into the docker compose file and now things seem to be working