Sorry but it's old, dude... now you have to update it adding the steps for ID check, facial recognition and government approval.

You get hit with the Google/Cloudflare captcha because your VPN, privacy extensions, and the fact that you're using Firefox in general make them think you're a bot. But actually they've already decided you're definitely a bot and refuse to let you in no matter how many image captchas you solve.

there was this satirical "web browsing simulator 2025" or something like that where you had to do all those things.
but I don't remember the exact name and can't find it with a search engine. Maybe someone else knows what I am talking about.

14. You close the video that started autoplaying
15. You try to read the content of the site on 20% of your screen because the rest is padding and headers and useless shit
16. You try to understand why your laptop fan has started and your battery is draining at 100% cpu on a text and image on website
17. You manage to read something on the website before your battery drops by 30%. You try to figure out if it's AI generated or not
18. You're hit by a paywall

Life hack Re: #4

There are a lot of community-driven websites, but they're all out SEOed by profit-driven garbage sites.

Step 1: install and set up uBlock Origin properly optionally use VPN ignore all other steps

"You already have your VPN installed

You're using firefox with ublock origin and noscript

You load a page, it just works or its blank

If its blank, you whitelist only the top level domain on noscript

You read the page content with no ads, no popups, no referrers, trackers or unnecessary javascript bullshit."

• You also have to wait 30 seconds to a minute for all the useless javascript to load and get in the way of you trying to find what you are looking for.
• Then you'll have to dodge an AI chatbot and various buttons for AI features trying to trick you into clicking them.

I am so glad that I’m using an adblocker that filters out 90% of the crap. The other 10% of the crap are killed by cookie whitelist and Javascript whitelist.

Just posting here the always relevant reminder that Firefox still has real ad-blockers.

Now age verification should be added to the list, especially if you want to browse 18+ sites like about how to pay taxes or learn to drive

My websites: no cookies, no tracking, a few KB of JS, rest is pure HTML and CSS. My sites load 10x faster. Meanwhile every other company is running some overly bloated WP. Its kinda of mind blowing how dumb some of these sites are.

And then they sell you LLMs as the solution.

1. (optional) Set up a pihole or pull something like stevenblacks hosts to your /etc/hosts
2. Install a adblock browser extension
3. Browse website

Adblock as a concept has existed for 20+ years. No excuse to be so willfully ignorant of it.

What about the step where you change VPN servers because cloudflare blocked the first one you used?