I’ve given up on it. While I think it was silly to remove, I’ve come to find it just as silly to be so attached to a cable. Bluetooth and USBC headphones have worked just fine for me.

YouTube and Instagram already have identical features. Most US creators who post on Tik Tok also use those platforms already

Very buggy on my Pixel 7 Pro. Sticking with the older version for now

I use Heliboard: https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard

Definitely look into Next DNS. There are also some Safari extensions that can block ads.

I also suggest buying refurbished unlocked phones in the future instead of going for the carrier freebies which you can see are scams designed to lock you into paying for their overpriced service each month for over a year.

Probably so it can still support FireFox sync.

You couldn’t even pay me to use Twitter

Are they going to ban LGBT people from the internet like the US is trying to do?

In general, you should use as few as possible.

On FireFox browser, the best privacy extension is uBlock Origin. I wouldn’t use any other extension for ad blocking or privacy unless it is for something specific you need that uBlock Origin cannot do on its own. NoScript is another privacy extension that is sometimes recommended.

There may also be some benefit to using the extension for your password manager, as it may help you identify phishing links and prevent you from filling in your password on fake or scam sites. I strongly recommend Bitwarden as a password manager.

Installing extensions is unlikely to help you defend against fingerprinting. If you are concerned about fingerprinting, then you should enable resist.fingerprint in the about:config on FireFox, or use either Tor or Mullvad Browser (which you should not install any extensions on).

Because not every app you download needs to know all of your information

censor channels that go against globalism

Such as…?

Yes, if advertisers start pulling out then I could see something changing. But advertisers are unlikely to do that unless they stop making money from it as well. So a campaign like that sounds like a good idea but also will be very difficult to succeed

They could pay more staff to moderate, or use their fancy AI that they like so much.

You might think it is unethical to silence different opinions which is a valid position. But on the other hand I see it as unethical to host dangerous misinformation and hateful content.

YouTube is essentially a monopoly and there isn’t any realistic alternative for most people, so it’s not like they have to worry about backlash so much. That’s a whole 'nother issue though

Google/YouTube doesn’t care. If they can put ads on it and make money they will leave it up.

They will run ads for whoever pays them including hate groups like the Heritage Foundation

Possibly because it is not open source and doesn’t have anything to offer that the other recommendations do not.

You can view “Brave ads” in exchange for crypto. That is what I meant by replacing ads.

How is allowing the death of school children a solution to climate change? Do you believe that they will all grow up to be Fossil Fuel Executives?

trustworthy

They are recommended on privacy guides: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/search-engines/#brave-search I generally trust privacy guides, although I don’t use Brave Search.

CEO

Their CEO is anti-vax and homophobic. Brave Browser (not search) has had some controversy around including crypto, replacing ads with their own, and having had inserted affiliate links into the URL bar in the past.

censor stuff

Hard to say, the job of a search engine is to show you what you want to find.

data collection

There is telemetry that can be turned off.

That is what I do, however it is very tedious when you want to listen to full albums, and add info to the file such as the album art and artist. Services like Spotify also sync your Library and playlist automatically across devices.

“Socialism” in the form of government regulations and healthcare is popular. Not so much Marxism or proleterian revolution