You can’t scroll some of the ads, that’s one of the problems.

There are video ads that remain on the bottom of the page regardless of what you do. Same for image ads.

I’m trying to read an article and there is distracting ads all over the page.

Ads back in 90s were subtle, I have zero problems with textual google ads in the article but videos and images that is also slowing down my experience with its large downloads?

Sites are like loading 10m of content for a 2kb text article. Come on.

Ah, it’s included with Kindle Unlimited.

Read the “How It Unfolds” short story by James S. A. Corey, it is identical to your ideas.

Chromium is open source, you can inspect the source code and build it yourself. It’s not spyware by default.

If you’re going to try to get people to switch to Firefox, give them a legit reason.

Also, Firefox itself has telemetry that some would say is spyware. Not to mention, Mozilla has done some sketchy stuff themselves. Recent one is enforcing blocking of extensions on specific domains without user’s intervention and picking out their own preferred extensions. (https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2023/7/1.html)

Remember that Musk didn’t use his own money to buy Twitter, he had to borrow money with banks and other rich folks to buy the company.

In other words, Twitter or X, or whatever the name is actually due to start paying their debt interests and rumors are, they’re close to a billion dollar each year for just interests alone.

Twitter has to make more than a billion dollar or so to even start paying salaries and then to make any profit.

What distro are you using, what is the rest of the system’s spec.

CPU isn’t enough to tell us anything.

I’d suggest if you want stock and recent Gnome, stick with Fedora.

Pop is building their own DE that they will switch to sometime in 2023. Which also mean they will remain 22.04 till then.

I’m waiting for VanillaOS 2.0 release to see if it is any better.