The only issue I have with all the filters on, is come hardware sites (Lowe’s, homedopot, menards), Guns sites, and media based sites. For the media based sites I found alternatives, like Freetube, and RSS feeds converting services. My internet activities are primarily forums, videos, and voice chat.
My Issue with Portmaster NOW is that it locks up and blocks ALL traffic. If I force close it, my connection immediately come back. I’m someone who leaves their machine on 24/7. So the reboots do not bother me.
The changes like I said were painful, but only because I had 19years of passwords, and I wen through everyone deleted the ones for dead site, it was about half of the saved passwords, changed the email and passwords then deleted the accounts of site I don’t use, if they didn’t let me delete the account I generated a temp email on one of the many temp email sites until I found one they accepted. Then going in and deleting all my information out of my google accounts, and then i watched it for a year to see if I missed anything with the emails that came in. With Google and Meta services, I found many accounts on site that I connected through the google and meta accounts so I also when through those and deleted the accounts there. I partly put myself through this to get the emotional understand of how exposed I was to match my intellectual understanding of it. And going through 19years of this was emotional. I can clearly see how all this information could be used to build a digital simulacrum of myself. Also it was emotional to revisit key-points of my life in what was ‘real time’, it was a bit surreal. I could have done it in a year I think, but I took the time to ponder on the past, and reconnected in 2 old friends, seeing how the reasons we had our falling out was trivial looking back. And pulling off all my person media off them then getting them properly ingested.
This helped me better convey the case for my small circle of people in my life. They all have started a similar journey, though I would not expect anyone to go through things like I did.
I haven’t been a big fan of 2fas, so next time I get motivated I will check out Ente Auth, at first glance it does look like it addresses some of my annoyances of 2fas. This is why I posted here, thank you!
As for OS I am still on Windows11 one of the ‘Tiny’ type installs I stumbled through ‘building’ myself. I have every intention of moving to an immutable Linux distro. But I have been holding off hoping for a few things finish their rollout. I am waiting for budgie to complete their move to Wayland, and for Wine to resolve of the DPI and resolution issues. I am currently running the ATOMIC Fedora Budgie distro on a laptop that I dedicate to my Obsidian usage.
And I use 3 browsers, one for daily use (zen), LibreWolf for all financial things, and Mull for anything I deem more… out of the box.