And this is why you VPN.

Even on mobile it’s a couple clicks away from being on or off. Saves me more time than it costs when something doesn’t work the way I want.

Well said, and the things you’ve listed are why I’ve begun to de-google myself. After decades of wishing they’d fix certain products and features or compromising just to keep everything under one roof, I’m done with them.

I appreciate the role they played in helping shape the internet, but I won’t be a part of helping them try to kill it.

YouTube filtering is fairly unique to YouTube since they serve ads so aggressively so it’s unlikely to help on other sites.