For most situations, it's a lot of annoyances in exchange for only the abstract benefit of privacy. All the big VPNs have known IP blocks and companies either target them for restrictions or automatically do so when abuse comes from there.
The solution to this was actually ridiculously easy - found it in the comments section of a Github issue for yt-dlp.
They're good if you want to get around geo-blocks and for torrenting and stuff, especially because torrent traffic is unencrypted. I don't use one for general browsing, reading news, buying shit on Amazon, watching youtube and stuff, and I think people who do are probably being a bit overly paranoid.
Books he has linked in description is a good read. And explains usual use cases well.
Don't know how much this helps but I use FoxyProxy with my own cloud-hosted SOCKS proxy and it has the feature of excepting certain patterns which for the life of me I cannot get to work despite near daily use of regular expressions and an expression tester that says my exceptions should work. So instead of turning it on and off when websites don't like my proxy I just open a Firefox private window for the exceptions (mostly gaming articles for whatever reason) where, by default, extensions are not turned on.
Some nigger distro maintainer hates people.
It's worse than that, most ignorant security theater isn't aimed at the glowies, but fanciful evil maid attacks.
Sounds like it's probably the gnome-keyring-daemon being fucky as it should usually unlock the keyring on a graphical login. Try removing every file in
~/.local/share/keyrings/ and see if it's able to reinstantiate the keyring on relogin. If you still get the prompt, try looking in seahorse (aka "Passwords and Keys") and check that the login keyring is set as the default (as per this)./etc/pam.d/. If this is Kubuntu, (I think, based off my Debian knowledge) you should see the module name appear in the PAM config for sddm (auth, session), common-password, and the screensaver if you use one. Also the daemon should be running with the --components= option containing secrets.gnome-keyring package and that would work if you really do not want to use a keyring.
That's why I only unlock things alone in a closed room. No one knows that I only registered my toe-prints.
I like StarTech for all those miscellaneous adapters and expansion cards. I've gotten a bunch of HD-related cables and adapters from them and never had a problem.
I don't have a specific spreaker in mind when saying this, but a lot of Bluetooth speakers now have a line-in, so you can plug them in to your computer's line out with a 35mm audio cable, not use the Bluetooth at all, and they can be powered by USB.
The Creative Pebble is the only answer to this.
I've been using Firefox with uBlock Origin and I still don't get ads on youtube.