Debian is good for this. Enjoy it while there is still 32-bit support though. Edit- do you have any swap configured?

Vote for Bernie!

Exactly. I thought I was reading an article in Private Eye.

It’s known here as the Daily Fail.

Had she not accepted it, I’m sure they would have found someone else willing to accept their kind donation.

Not guilty, m’lud.

It’s unfortunate that they missed out on Trade Union recognition at the Coventry facility recently. I’m sure GMD (or others) will keep on trying though.

(also marketplace which I hate to admit is pretty good)

The new Craigslist.

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.

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.

Vivaldi’s built-in ad blocker. Edit - Vivaldi thing. FF + UBO working…

Unable to read because I choose to use an ad blocker. Archive copy at https://archive.is/dl6oF

I had to check if it was one of Tim Martin’s but apparently it’s a Stonegate, and recently refurbished too.

I archived.is’d it. https://archive.is/GFCIY

Site requires you to accept their cookies to read the article.

She probably gained an endless supply of pillows.

BBC already have a Mastodon instance but it doesn’t seem to get much use.

I class myself as having similar experience to your friend having used Power Basic and Turbo Pascal mainly under DOS. I was able to use tkinter to produce some simple gui front-ends to produce dialogue boxes, process data and feed it to GnuPlot.