I do recall there being tvs with baked-in ads that play on startup even without internet service, but i was unable to easily find the reference. Also, many smart tv interfaces are much slower than dumb tv on-screen menus, so there is that.

uBlock may have enough support to start their own maintained fork, and be the upstream for all the other quiet browsers. That dude is like THE ONE GUY that makes chromium sane, and doesn’t even take donations?!

These are just the ones that succeeded.

How can you pay to block cookies if they would need a cookie to remember that you paid?

I avoid those stations i know have ads, and if surprised… i’m happy to know of the hidden mute button.

That they would even build such a remote lock into “not their phone” is Orwellian technofacism.

Many VPNs will support multi-hop, where the concentrator you connect to is not the same as the exit/egress point.