I believe the filter just hides the cookie banner (which I believe on many sites means you accept all), where consent-o-matic actually accepts & rejects according to your preferences.

Regarding why an update, as there are many sites that it doesn’t automatically accept/decline, and having an update will have it done automatically rather having to manually set.

One idea for the bathrooms, is getting a doctor that knows your kids the most (most commonly that would be a family doctor, but if a kid has a reason to have a specialized doctor then go to that one) to get a signed letter that tells the school to give the kid(s) unrestricted access to the bathroom. Then give that to the school and the school basically has to do what the doctor says (because you or the doctor could put up a fight if they don’t).

Kids could also make the data useless by checking in to multiple places, or leaving it somewhere in the school (for example).

I got mine for free (or at least a discount, I don’t remember which), I trust Sony more (as a company) than OnePlus, it was easier for me to buy, and I’ve had it for a number of years so I don’t feel the need to replace it with a new one (as it still works).

The newest one also gives six years of security updates, so one can hang onto the phone for a longer time.

If you want to read the article but are blocked by Cloudflare, there is an copy on Wayback machine.

Other words for those who are searching: bypass paywall, archive copy.

If I were him (which I’m not), I wouldn’t appear before any political panels after what they did to him the first thing. All the panellists want is sound bites to make him look bad.

There are multiple ways that I know of (depending on what works for you): Bypass Paywalls Clean (extension and an adblock filter), archive.today (see Wikipedia for the most accurate URL’s), sometimes the full article is available on archive.org, there’s also the option of searching for the article title in quotes and finding another site that has reposted the entire article (sometimes it’s MSN, and other times it’s a site you’ve never read of).