Fennec right now, switched before Ironfox was out and now switching would be painful as there is no export, so all manual...
EngineerGaming
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I just use a Firefox derivative there as well, because of Ublock. Tried Vanadium but the adblocking was just not good.
The overwhelming majority of my library is actually not digital-native - rather, pdf or djvu scans. I should really contribute to Libgen by scanning some of my library.
Or DRMless digital. But yeah, they need to coexist with paper ones.
I still don't have an understanding whether this meaningfully downgrades Tor's security. Because if there was no extra harm, it would be helpful when bridges are blocked frequently, but some VPN services (or just your own VPS setup) have a better obfuscation.
Host a Tor node or bridge right now if it is safe for you))
Also, not everyone has a parking spot with electricity. How are you supposed to charge if you're parking on a random place on the street, like most people do? I'd joke about "lower a chain of extension cords from your 20th floor", but that would be assuming you can park next to your home at all. My building's parking, for example, had all its spots sold out by now, while the very few ones for sale in the neighborhood cost a fortune. Apparently, they were affordable if you bought the apartment new, but on a secondary market - no.
You can ban big hosting providers, but even here they're cautious with measures like that because it would break WAY too much. Not to mention that you could just use a lesser-known one, even if it doesn't operate in the country legally.
I am experiencing such banning of providers right now. It is a whack-a-mole, seems futile. Not to mention that most people use sketchy free noname VPNs that are just too numerous. Or apparently some people set up basic XRay/VLESS/whatever and sell it via a Telegram bot...
Interestingly, I am now going through some album series that are not on Youtube, but are on Spotify. It is frustrating because I can't use Spotify on my phone (browser is incompatible), but I can Youtube, so music discovery is desktop-only. Good thing all of them are on Soulseek, though.
I wish I could do the same. I prefer paper books, we have a massive library and mostly read in our language on paper (except uni textbooks, I wouldn't want to buy them and the library doesn't have enough). However, that stopped being feasible when most of my non-fiction reading switched to English. Since English books are mostly not sold locally, I would have gone bankrupt on delivery costs alone. So thanks Libgen for my education.
Most of my library is scans of paper books. I wish more of my reading was in native epub and not automatically recognized with tons of mistakes, but eh, whatever.