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

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.

Lizteria. Is that Lettuce hysteria?

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

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.

I fail to understand how they ever ended up there in the first place. Maybe it makes sense for businesses but why put government stuff there when ultimately they may be subject to moderation at someone else's whim.

Add the past government's use of WhatsApp to this too so they can't conveniently lose data when a device is replaced.

They run a full distro rather than the minimalist that Docker containers use. You can also use them to run gui apps but that needs a bit more work to configure. I run Google Chrome sandboxed this way.