Honestly, I can’t remember the last time I called someone on my phone

Ad guard DNS is super easy to set up, too. Basically ad blocking with zero tradeoff

Just warning, Brave is sort of a touchy subject here on Lemmy

I went through a similar dilemma. My solution (take with a grain of salt) was to take a 1 month break and learn all of the stuff that I didn’t understand. When I came back, I found that less articles went over my head, and I actually understood them. Just some advice :)