Stop using the DDG Browser.

Librewolf updates all the time, probably weekly (I don’t watch it that closely).

Sentinel dVPN does/did the same thing. You’d connect to their network, pay a Node operator directly with the network’s coin, and you’d use their connection. Don’t know how safe it was, with respect to seeing the through-traffic, but it did work.

These people are definitely not “the first”

I do the same for desktop machines, just to identify immediately without hostnames.

Why would we eat lab-grown human when there are so many delicious animals to be had?

Secondly, A1, Heinz 57 or Lawry’s?

*Fracking

Do you live anywhere near a natural gas extraction (tracking) site?

For now. This is a near-future thing.

Why would they sell you something for $50 one time, when they can charge you $9.99 / month forever?

That’s a problem that will reveal itself later. Decentralization goes away when everyone flocks to one server. Turns into Reddit 2.0

Right there with ya. Up to 4 so far. Jerboa, Liftoff, Thunder, and PWA.

The neat part about this is who gives a fuck. Pick an instance. Go subscribe to some communities. Unpopular not to support the latest witchhunt/bullshittery, I know. Most folks moved past this last year. PG is still up to date and relevant, and PTIO isn’t. I could see how that would make some salty.

Well that’s the worst story so far. Completely unacceptable in every way.

If only we knew someone who knew how to bend things…

Thank you all for the responses!

It looks like an inexpensive VPS can do the job here, especially if it is just going to be an account server, with no communities.

I haven’t gone through any documentation yet, as I needed this info first.

Are there options for turning off certain things like IP logs, etc, to make it more private (for the users) to keep their info away from admin eyes? Or is all of that necessary for function?