I did check that out and their web page. It says

When it’s needed for the website to work properly, it will automatically accept the cookie policy for you (sometimes it will accept all and sometimes only necessary cookie categories, depending on what’s easier to do)

So maybe I’ll test it alongside Ublock.

I’m going to take this one away, create a new FF profile and configure. That way I can compare results with my original profile.

selectively, I hope.

There is Easylist Ads (currently enabled) and EasyList/uBO – Cookie Notices (disabled) should I enable this?

It’s something I should research more then.

As far as laws go, I’m in the UK and AFIAK privacy laws are still the same as before we left the EU. Other countries such as the US seem to have less strict laws (apart from the CCPA) which means a lot of US news sites I visit will geoblock me as they don’t want to comply with EU standards.

Also a thread here.

I watched the movie “Enemy of the State” the other day. It was released in 1998, but it was a true prediction of the future.

That was my point - there’s commercial support for those who require it and community distros for those who don’t. Personally my daily driver is Arch with a Cinnamon desktop.

Or you are free to install the Cinnamon desktop on any other distro.

I prefer mine to not look like Windows.

How Mega are IBM (Red Hat) and Canonical (Ubuntu) these days?

+1 for Organic Maps. Just back from a road trip, used OSM via a browser, this is much better.