I agree with all the Linux comments but another thing you could do is use FOSS self-hostable front-ends to those proprietary services like invidious and newpipe (android) for youtube, redlib for reddit, nitter for twitter etc. You don’t have to host them yourself, there’s already plenty of people hosting their own instances.

Aside from removing ads which you can already do with an adblocker (which takes 1 revenue stream away from them) it lets you browse privately without any data collection which would be sold to advertisers (taking away their 2nd revenue stream) plus it frees you from the clutches of the algorithm, it helped stopping my ADHD from leaving me 2 binge yt vids for hours on end.

It’s a prescription drug like any other, if u take it while diagnosed it’ll js make you normal, but if you take it recreationally it’ll act like a drug with all the side-effects.

If you take morphine for example, when in a fuckton of pain, it’ll get rid of your pain, but if you take it recreationally it’ll work like any other recreational drug does. It’s obviously very simplified ik, and I could’ve worded it better but it gets my point across.

They do by default but like I said it’s open source so you can tweak it to not be.

It’s open source, although not 'cause it wants to be but 'cause it’s the best way to compete with mainstream non-chinese software internationally, you can easily remove any censorship included by default.

This is what happens when you don’t know what your own code does, you lose the ability to manage it, that is precisely why AI won’t take programmer’s jobs.