Not OP, but I've been on GrapheneOS for a few years and I have no problem with Chase, CiT or Wealthfront. I mostly use them to check balances and unlock debit cards, but they all login and function fine.

Noted, thank you for the advice.

Good luck :)

99% of people who follow that are still completely dependent on the world order and will be just as screwed as everybody else if everything goes tits-up.

The aim is to be screwed last. That's a reasonable survival strategy.

There's a lot of bullshit that can happen between the status quo and everything going tits up. Having FU money means you can say -all things being equal - "Fuck You" when it's appropriate, instead of worrying about becoming homeless or not having enough to eat

And then you couldn't get to their home page because they got hammered by traffic. They eventually slimmed the page down to just the main story and you could get it to load eventually.

And in some countries people are only given a choice of two, neither of which benefit the population.

Many of those countries have mechanisms by which one can express their preferences earlier in the process, ones which have been successfully used to pivot major political parties in new and unexpected directions, although those mechanisms are more complicated than just showing up at the end and whining about the results, so usually it's only motivated individuals and entities which leverage them.

Yeah, they're doing some kind of nonsense to avoid scraping which also blocks any browser setup for any kind of privacy. I even tried reloading the page with ublock turned off and it still did it so I moved on to something else.

Yes, the black will wind up 2-tone when you get through the top layer. Mine get silvery to the sides of my trackpad from hand friction over time. I like the laptop in black, but silver ages far better.

DTF STL is a fantastic show as are all of the series done by Steven Conrad.

I wouldn't call it an arms race. I don't update my client that often and I rarely have problems downloading any video with it.

There are also solutions for blocking ads without subscribing to premium.

If we all did that they wouldn’t offer an ad free option.

I’m happy to pay so others don’t have to, I’ve been both sides of this fence.

YouTube premium is good value imo.

The "ad free option" is also called "muting and looking away". Don't let them trick you into thinking they have the right and control to shove anything they want into your mind.

Sponsorblock offers by far the best experience. It skips over channel intros and outros, engagement prompts, sponsored segments, tangents, etc (configurable per channel) and offers jumping to "highlight" (that is, the most important part of the video).

Highly ironic that the best experience is free, and no paid option gets even close. Tim Cook watching paid Youtube on Apple TV device has far worse experience than some random kid with Firefox and Sponsorblock gets for free.