There are dirt cheap access point (one wifi one ethernet port) that can be used to convert your ISP wifi to ethernet. Use that ethernet as WAN to a router you can manage.
Use ad-blockint DNS server such as mullvad, NextDNS , etc.
Ads can be blocked using
- browser extension or application
- using local DNS server (e.g. pihole on localhost, selfhosted in LAN)
- using selfhosted service on the internet (pihole, Adguard)
- public ad-blocking DNS servers (e.g. mullvad or 1.1.1.1 hosted service
This post is the first method. If you are technical enough do 2 or 3 also. You will not see ads in mobile phones where extensions are limited.
If not just use the ad blocking DNS server. Mullvad one is compatible with Android private DNS setting.
Thanks.
I am gonna try Tree style tab and Simple Tab Group with its extensions.
Extensions or built-in?
I didn't notice them.
Had been using Firefox before I had to move away due to persistent crashing of Firefox and Surfshark VPN extension not working.
I have been using Edge and I will now try using Firefox again.
Do we have these feature (or extensions) I have been using in Edge?
- vertical tab
- tab group
I use Edison Mail.
Gonna turn 40 soon. This post scares me.
Opera didn't use chromium back then.
Chrome was kind of late to the web browsers market.
Opera was initially released on 10 April 1995, making it one of the oldest desktop web browsers still actively developed. It was commercial software for its first ten years and had its own proprietary layout engine, Presto. In 2013, it switched from the Presto engine to Chromium.
Linkding also has Firefox and Chrome extensions for bookmarking and injector for search engines (Google, DDG, SearX/SearXNG, Brave).
If you are upgrading part of this PC, make sure you have SSD.