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Developer Andre0512 has received a takedown request from Haier to take down an open source Home Assistant integration with many of their smart appliances, sold under the names such as Haier, Candy and Hoover. The HA community as a response has already created many forks at the moment of writing (https://github.com/Andre0512/hon/forks)

    Announcement: I have to take the project down in the next few days

    Dear User,

    We are writing to inform you that we have discovered two Home Assistant integration plug-ins developed by you ( https://github.com/Andre0512/hon and https://github.com/Andre0512/pyhOn ) that are in violation of our terms of service. Specifically, the plug-ins are using our services in an unauthorized manner which is causing significant economic harm to our Company. We take the protection of our intellectual property very seriously and demand that you immediately cease and desist all illegal activities related to the development and distribution of these plug-ins. We also request that you remove the plug-ins from all stores and code hosting platforms where they are currently available. Please be advised that we will take all necessary legal action to protect our interests if you fail to comply with this notice. We reserve the right to pursue all available remedies, including but not limited to monetary damages, injunctive relief, and attorney's fees. We strongly urge you to take immediate action to rectify this situation and avoid any further legal action. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us.

    Haier Europe Security and Governance Department

I don't really recognise the first concern you raise, but that might also be due to the fact that viewing all European countries as the same in this regard might be overgeneralising.

I don't know whether this is the best set of extensions, but I'm personally using a mix of

- uBlock Origin

- Facebook Container

- Decentraleyes, ClearURLs

- HTTPS Everywhere

- Privacy Badger.

- Redirect AMP to HTML

- Terms of Service; Didn’t Read

- Smart Referer

- User-Agent Switcher

Next to that I'm using Bitwarden and Floccus (Nextcloud Bookmarks) for self-hosted decentralised password and bookmarks sync.

An interesting alternative to Disqus might be Commento. https://gitlab.com/commento/commento

It's a SaaS or self-hosted commenting application written in Go. I also set this up myself last week https://pieterhollander.nl/post/commento .