Cypherpunks will rise again!

There is *no way* to turn off recommendations. If you order a list chronologically versus alphabetically, that *is* a recommendation (one of the lawyers made that argument). There is simply no way to display data without some form of sort - even if you select to randomize the list, that is still a developer-designed selection.

That's where we are. You want easy, use Gmail (Hotmail, Yahoo, whatever). You want privacy, run your own mail server, and good luck getting past filters.

Why should TVs be any different?

Pi-hole is a good, "not too technical" solution for most people's televisions, in my opinion.

I call the hack "Airplane Mode".

You've never seen a kernel panic?

All you need is a master computer on the moon, and the ability to launch large rocks... Reading through the list, it seems like many of the weapons have some connection to Heinlein. I see the correlation, but not sure of the causation.