Agree! I can't see it getting any better for 99% of users either - you have to be quite technical.
And once DNS over HTTPS is the norm (thanks Google + Microsoft) I literally have no clue what I'm going to do - I won't be able to stop any of the tracking domains requested or "telemetry".
It's a nightmare and I think the Internet will be "over" for me at that point.
eg. Little Snitch tells me all the outgoing requests on my Mac, I have to run piHole for DNS to block 27% of my DNS requests (yes that much), OOSU10 is mandatory on Windows 10 to turn off a boatload of telemetry, and every site on earth these days don't self-host - they pull from 20 different sites instead of just their own site. That's 21 different organisations that know I've visited their site,
eg. visiting White Stuff's website (clothing) for my wife and I get
whitestuff.com,
googletagmanager.com,
google-analytics.com,
wsweboptimisejs.blob.core.windows.net,
via.placeholder.com,
tag.bounceexchange.com,
fsm.attraqt.com,
fonts.googleapis.com,
data.rci.eggplant.cloud,
cdn.optimizely.com,
c3n4sovn.cloudimg.io
You can block all IP ranges owned by the tracking companies. Sure many services will stop working.
Some people go vegan, some people go GNU. There are plenty of content to discover beneath the mainstream commercials. There is so much content on the web, and the Internet is not just the web. That I'm sure you can live a happy life, without consuming the services which business model is centered around how many ads, trackers and spyware they can install on your devices.
Yes this is true. I am quite happy living my life without all of this garbage, but more interested in how to effectively be able to stop this kind of garbage without constantly playing whack-a-mole.
And once DNS over HTTPS is the norm (thanks Google + Microsoft) I literally have no clue what I'm going to do - I won't be able to stop any of the tracking domains requested or "telemetry".
It's a nightmare and I think the Internet will be "over" for me at that point.
eg. Little Snitch tells me all the outgoing requests on my Mac, I have to run piHole for DNS to block 27% of my DNS requests (yes that much), OOSU10 is mandatory on Windows 10 to turn off a boatload of telemetry, and every site on earth these days don't self-host - they pull from 20 different sites instead of just their own site. That's 21 different organisations that know I've visited their site,
eg. visiting White Stuff's website (clothing) for my wife and I get whitestuff.com, googletagmanager.com, google-analytics.com, wsweboptimisejs.blob.core.windows.net, via.placeholder.com, tag.bounceexchange.com, fsm.attraqt.com, fonts.googleapis.com, data.rci.eggplant.cloud, cdn.optimizely.com, c3n4sovn.cloudimg.io
It's ludicrous.