Huh, that’s weird. You would think that business had pretty good returns, given that registrars have famously high markup when selling domains.

Currently I just deal with the banners (as annoying as they are) and shed a tear at the state of the modern internet.

In case you didn’t know, the “I don’t care about cookies” extension was recently sold to Avast. I don’t know if anyone has seen them make any sketchy changes yet, but personally I didn’t want to trust them and uninstalled it

archive.org link to get around paywall.

I like it so far. The tech seems good, it’s not that hard to wrap your head around the federated aspect, but as always the life and death of a platform like this is in the community. If a decent amount of people decide to come to Lemmy, I think it will be great.

I use kagi. It’s pretty nice, though it’s not free.