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On Android I use AdAway (available on F-Droid or GitHub) and I don’t ever see any ad anywhere. On my home PC I use PiHole.


My point is that you can’t compare today’s problem with 20 years ago! 20 years ago the access to the Internet was through the home PC for the amount of time the kid was allowed to use and with people in the house (usually); today the access to the Internet for a kid is 24/7 and everywhere. There is no comparison. Parents should be more present in the kids life? Sure! Parents should block Internet access to porn website at least until a certain age? Yes! But most of them doesn’t even know that ths is possible. Maybe we (society, givernment) should work more here.


Guys, come on, in the '80/early '90 it was almost impossible to have access to porn, maybe some magazine found somewhere. Today a 10 years old can see porn video on a smartphone everytime he wants! You can’t say that it’s the same!

P.s. In my original message I didn’t say that I’m ok with that law, I was asking (to start a kind discussion) what other possibilities there are.


In fact I wrote:

The firsts with wide Internet access were the late millennials.

which seems to be you.


I know, but what were the risks there? There was no Internet! The firsts with wide Internet access were the late millennials.


I agree with what you say, but how can we prevent kids to use those websites? Todays parents are too IT ignorant and they don’t know that they can protect their kids by using tools that they already have (parental control on smartphones and routers). So, how do we protect those kids? Pornography (for example) can do huge damage to kids.


Mmm…I haven’t read the article yet (will do!), but why should the owner of a profitable company make it unprofitable? 🤔



Oh, I see! I missed that. Is it possible to block the Internet to Google Play Services?


From what I’ve seen, it can block the Internet for all the OS, not for single apps. But I’m not using that app, so I may be wrong.


Oh, I see, , “normal” tracker. I’ve asked because I thought it could be something different since the OP was asking to block Internet and not the tracker. I’ve had a look at the app and it doesn’t seems to me that it can block Internet access to other apps.


I use it too and I like it, but OP needs to keep in mind that the apps that rely on Google Play Services will still have “Internet access” directly with it and Netguard can’t do anything about it. WhatsApp for example: you can block Internet access to the apps, but it will still be able to send/receive messages.



If it’s less than that, it could work. The problem about asking the IBAN could be bypassed by QR codes in shops. I think that the instant bank transfer (if very fast) could help the rise of other apps that don’t have to pay fees to the credit card circuit and so be competitive and compete with PayPal.


As much as I’d like PayPal to have competition, I’ve seen the share chart and there’s a flexion just this month (not a so small one, but it’s just a month).

What the EU has done with instant bank transfer is great, but I think that the 15 seconds limit is too much for that function to be used by other apps (Satispay) to transfer money. I mean, 15 seconds is nothing, but waiting in line at the supermarket standing still for 15 seconds will fill an eternity!


Cheques? Who uses those anymore? I see them useful maybe for a down payment for a house. I don’t think that there is a merchant today that would accept them.


Really? I use ProtonVPN and I get captcha everywhere :)


Aren’t you all tired of the captcha that we need to solve while using VPNs? Is there a solution (I don’t think so)?


Oh, sorry, I didn’t realize that you were the same that wrote that message.


Well, first of all, let me say that people lamenting over an open source project is very sad. The comment I’ve linked is from a Neo Launcher contributor and, as you can see, there’s been continuous work on the project.



Till now we have no alpha release of 1.0.0, but this would come in the next weeks.

Finger crossed!




+ raindrop.io — not as an extension but a pinned tab, mostly for convenience to keep my saved websites and articles in one place, if anyone knows anything better, or more useful, or open source, let me know

If you’re a selfhoster, try Wallabag (open source)




I think that’s important to underlying that Mozilla is reselling OneRep service. Should we trust them?


Or install the open source app AdAway that I guess goes over the DNS block of some servers.


The TTL nowadays is about 3600 seconds, so I think that at about that rate your DNS server would flush stored entries every hour one by one and ask to 9.9.9.9 an update. That’s basically how every DNS server works (and I guess that even the ones embedded in router’s works like that with caching). Is your setup different? If yes, in which way? Thanks


Well, your country (which one is it) isn’t “the world”.

Sooner or later you will experience it for yourself.

Well, I hope I won’t!



Just out of curiosity: what info don’t you want the authority to see? If I think about myself, there is none.


Or Firefox with containers!



Isn’t it just enough to use Google with Firefox in a Google container (and uBlockOrigin and Canvas locker)? In this way no search can be tied up to me.

P.s. I also have the plugin Google search link fix, but I’m not sure it’s needed with the Google container


Exactly. I had to stop using it because for the number of searches I had to switch to the $25/month! Way too much for me!


I’ve never heard about Ecosia, what is the good cause?