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I follow many Threads accounts.

/literally one more than no one

No, not bold. You don't get posts from accounts you don't follow.

Creating ads as if they are from a person would get Threads instabanned in the EU.

Ads don't federate.

I pay 25EUR for a family subscription. Unlimited queries. Also means the risk of family members downloading malware (through paid ad results) is a lot lower.

There will always be those who offer things for free, always has been. Granted, we might've gotten used to higher quality (paid for by ads) and will need to "settle" for lower quality if we don't pay with money - but I think for humanity's sake this is something that needs to be done.

My takeaway was indeed that the Jedi of old weren't the good guys, although they still believed they were.

Well. Your sources don't say Microsoft kept it. They say NSA didn't report it to Microsoft so that they would be able to keep using it.

You might want to look up the Openwrt support for popular Deco and Omada devices before suggesting that ... ?

I'm hoping just as Proton do good free stuff using money I pay them (Visionary account) Kagi does/will do the same. The Internet as a whole needs to stop being ad-supported.

Not just a meta search engine though - they do have their own index as well.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.html

You're looking for Kagi.com

Not only does it give better search results quality wise on "the big web" - you can select to search specific parts, like blogs.

Best part - it's completely ad and spam free. You pay for it with actual money instead of with your data.

Keep the Fediverse bot- and troll-free.

The whole idea of being able to behave like a shithead without accountability needs to go.