Regarding ad blockers, my solution has just been to stop using the internet so much. I almost exclusively use it for work now. So I run into almost no websites with ads.
I heartily recommend going internet free except during work hours, and using the library for the rest. It's been such an amazing life improvement for us, we wish that on everyone.
Laughing foremost because I'd certainly be asking the wrong guy as I'd expect most HN guys to be power users. Not laughing because I recognize the huge potential of waste of time the internet brings along, that I hadn't really seriously considered until recently, had just figured it's half necessary to keep myself up to speed with things. We really don't need to be up to speed with things, outside of work at least, and if work is stressing us to the point where it becomes uncomfortable we should simply just change our work.
I do however like to be efficient in whatever I do so I would still like a convenient way of browsing the web, but... in the big picture it's not that important, especially if you leave out the time consuming stuff. Then it's mostly looking up stuff, which you can do using whatever tools.
In a couple of months I will be cutting off most of those time consuming tasks, whether that's FB, Reddit, HN, following politics, mindlessly looking for entertainment/escape. It's a life choice and I'm really looking forward to it.
For work I simply use Chrome and will keep it that way. Simple, easy, compatible, not fighting the mainstream. For private browsing though I would prefer to use something more.. personal. Brave works fine, currently trying out Cliqz. And I've tried out Next and Qutebrowser the last two days. Being a geek/ADHD I guess. There are more important things in life. Meditation helps. So does sailing. And not ranting on HN.
> In a couple of months I will be cutting off most of those time consuming tasks, whether that's FB, Reddit, HN, following politics, mindlessly looking for entertainment/escape. It's a life choice and I'm really looking forward to it.
Forgot which book it was, Sinner's Guide or Philothea, but the author said that Hercules went off into a lonely area to debate with himself what kind of life he ought to life, and he concluded that a life of virtue is the only one living. Your statement reminded me of it because (a) it's purely a choice of the will, which is the only thing we really have control over, and the only thing we own that nobody else has control over; and (b) he went off away from the busyness of the world in order to have an opportunity to think about his life and how he should live it.
And overall the extension landscape looks highly bleak. What are the recommended adblockers? I found Ghostery Lite (which according to the reviews seems quite disappointing) and a number of paid adblockers...
From my test some while back there at least seemed to be a decent number of extensions out there but now it's different. Why?
Edit: The Bitwarden extension seems to have been installed automatically along with the desktop app.