… Which means that businesses are making ‘too much’ money on top to sink into such endeavors, no?

For the vendor (non-)consent thing - Consent-O-Matic provides an appropriate framework.

(Whether such a side would even care about the preference/consent is another matter entirely - I’d suggest a throwaway browser identity and cookie auto delete for a start, anyway.)

Creating rules has a bit of a learning curve the first three or seven times, but I find that more interesting to do than go through a hostile/dark pattern cookie dialog or such the third time.

Hm, maybe the appropriate functionality from CoM could be re-wrapped as a TamperMonkey module…

Web automation for the masses 😱

12ft.io and/or archive.is/archive.today/… are worth trying in such cases (assuming you already have the latest version of the current ByPass addon, see the other comment).

Regarding cookie pop-ups, there’s a little known gem: https://consentomatic.au.dk/

(sorry about the multi posting, Jerboa was giving me network errors and it seemed like the comment hadn’t gone through.)

You might also want to look into Zstandard - it gives much better ratios in orders of magnitude quicker time on modern hardware.

A bit down on the page you can find versions of the 7-zip graphical archive manager extended with this Zstandard algorithm.

Like normal 7-zip/traditional zip/rar/gzip/bz2/…, Zstandard is completely (guaranteed) lossless.

(I don’t really know about ECM at all, so I won’t speak on that aspect.)

Thinking like a good little git(hub) user, the term “Forked Community on Lemmy” came to mind all too easily.

Maybe also a couple of key phrases?

That one thing has certainly ‘worked’, FWIW as of now.

Be creative! What if AI got trained to always answer with subtle innuendo… the thought makes me all shivery.