Advertising is the most prolific form of environmental pollution wrought by commerce.

It needs to become as socially acceptable as smoking, and every instance of it must be exhaustively scrutinised and required to be justified.

Full blown fascism is upon us. They're doing this in case people get ideas about uprising.

• Pihole, or adguard home (or whatever it is called), comes in for a somewhat answer!
• Wireguard into your LAN for when you are out and about, comes in for a somewhat answer!
• a openWRT firewall, that you can keep up to date rather than your ISPs, comes in for a somewhat answer!
• Self host as much as you can, comes in for a somewhat answer!
• FOSS as much as you can, comes in for a somewhat answer!

I have done a lot of this I am still working on the FOSS stage, I am sure there are other things I am missing but ad blocking at the DNS level is the first good step.

Disable JavaScript.

I already knew that many apps and email services use trackers to collect information. That’s why, whenever I can, I read the privacy policy to understand what data is being collected and how it may be used. Even so, it isn’t always easy to know how secure an app really is.

*crapps, best avoided for the most part.

What are these "ads" you speak of?