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Re:Serverless maps at 1/700 the cost of Google Maps API on Friday March 10, 2023 @03:19AM (#35091879)
If you have any geospatial data, you can tile it with tippecanoe [0], which gives you an mbtiles file. Protomaps lets you easily convert the mbtiles file into a protomaps file which you can then use.

Protomaps doesn’t limit you to any particular type of tiles, it’s just a format which allows you to read tiles out of a single file with HTTP range requests.

[0] https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe

Most blockers are running through Safari Extensions, so they’re limited to whatever Apple allows them to do. It’s no uBlock, but I made an app that lets you run your whole device’s traffic through a blocker [0].

[0]https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tulabyte/id1566083358