hendrik

Are there good (more ethical? cheaper?) OF alternatives? That’s not my world at all…

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That’s correct. I think it’s very similar here in some European countries. And in my opinion it also means the terms of service of lot of those AI generators are meaningless. Since they also don’t own any copyright on the content you generate on their platforms, you can just sell it anyways. Even if they prohibit that.

And to add on the whole issue: All the AI stuff isn’t yet settled ultimately (in court.) You’d need to wait a few years to be absolutely sure. But despite being trained on copyrighted material, these tools don’t reproduce it one to one. I mean theoretically they probably might be capable, but usually that’s not what’s happening. So most things should be safe for the user. BUT: It’s not all about copyright. There is trademark law and other things. And AI might very well draw a Mickey Mouse or other things and it might not be okay to sell those.

I think 30% is a fairly common number. That’s also the exact share Google, Apple take if you’re a programmer and sell Apps on their platform. And probably also what you’re facing when selling online courses or other things. I’d be surprised if a platform that also offers some infrastructure, takes less than say 20 or 30%.

Hmm. I had another look on my laptop. I might have to revise my answer: I have all the 5 uBlock lists, EasyList plus EasyList Germany and EasyPrivacy… And a few smaller ones are enabled, too. BUT I don’t think those unmaintained lists I mentioned show up in uBlock anyways. So you might be fine enabling all of them.

I still think it doesn’t helps after some point… But it’s definitely not as bad as I said earlier… At some point I’ll have to brush up my knowledge.

Not necessarily. That depends on personal preference. And IMHO you should enable some language specific filter if you visit sites in other languages than English. And the third party tracking and annoyance filters. Other than that I think the default settings are pretty good as is. But I just see no reason why someone should configure their Android uBlock differnetly than on the desktop… Just use the same settings?!

I didn’t even try. As far as I know there are a few well maintained lists that also are fairly complete. They’re even split into sub-categories so you can choose to visit facebook or have mildly annoying things, or not.
Those happen to be the lists that are enabled per default in most adblockers.

And there are lists that haven’t been maintained in months or years. And lists that are known to break websites because the filtering rules aren’t that well programmed.

I don’t see any reason for me to enable those. I mean your mileage may vary and they might not do you any harm or break the specific sites you like to frequent.

I trust my computer and operating system. And there are several other keys and credentials stored on that laptop. I think it’s better for me to have a file that I can backup and understand how the encryption works, than to do some trickery to hide it mostly from me and maybe a bit from malware, or tie it to some hardware TPM device or something. I’m always not sure if I should rely on those too much.

I don’t think enabling every filter is how it’s supposed to be configured. That’s just going to make your experience browsing worse. The defaults are pretty sane. I think that’s like 2 of the big (and good) lists. You’re supposed to enable your language specific list (with the same base name as the already activated one) along with that. And maybe the speficic ones like “Annoyances” etc. But that’s it. If you also go ahead and enable all the not so good lists, that’s not making it better.

Same as for desktop.

On the flipside, I think the Internet Archive should stick to archiving stuff. “Lending out” books without asking for permission and without owning the copyright, isn’t the best move. And I don’t think it’s aligned well to the core concept of the Internet Archive.

https://browserleaks.com/dns

And you need to configure protonvpn correctly so it uses their DNS. In the VPN world this is known as a ‘DNS leak’.