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YoutubeDL-Material would fit the bill

You can set up NextDNS on the router to cover every device on the network. My family is all over the country, so the app was easier for my use case.

If you want cheap and easy, something like NextDNS. Otherwise, your tentative plan works just as well. My family liked NextDNS because all I had to do was have them install an app, enter my code (for the profile I configure for them), and set it to on. The rest was magic, to them.

The movie actually incorporates the album very well. IIRC, that’s on purpose (they intended to make the movie when mixing the album).

Seconded on NextDNS. It’s like $20/year for the “pro” version (no monthly limits) and I honestly cannot recall the last time I saw an ad on any device I control. The sole exception is my Apple TV, where one of the apps I use has ads injected into the video, so, no way to block those.

If advertisers truly cared about serving the customers they claim to care so much about, the ad networks would have better standards and more safeguards to prevent malware. I’d still block them, I just wouldn’t feel the same level of pride in blocking them for both annoyance and safety factors.

Yes but the difference is they were opting their readers in. Now Google is hijacking content without consent if the site owner.

Doing anything on Facebook is the opposite of private.

I don’t think I did. I just assumed it would be impossible to detect the home network automatically once WiFi was automatically switched off. Unless off isn’t actually off. Or the “auto on” part was location based.

How does it detect your home wifi if it has turned off wifi? I don’t know Android, but the logic there seems odd. Are you using location services to drive it?

Nope, but I also feel like Apple would have it off by default, unlike Microsoft.

Internet traffic gets mirrored to NSA data centers, that’s old news from the Snowden leak.

“Sharing” is a funny way to word a headline. They are selling it, for a profit, because it’s legal. It’s immoral and shady as hell, but “prevent it or expect it” applies here.

I get Copilot to bail on conversations so often like your example that I’m only using it for help with programming/code snippets at this point. The moment you question accuracy, bam, chat’s over.

I asked if there was a Copilot extension for VS Code, and it said yup, talked about how to install it, and even configure it. That was completely fabricated, and as soon as I asked for more detail to prove it was real, chat’s over.