Works for me in Firefox. Do you have JavaScript disabled or something?

The average person already distrusts big tech

Not sure what crowds you’re running with, but this has absolutely not been my experience.

From a not-evil corporation’s perspective, how would zero knowledge proofs work exactly? Like is there a step at any point in the process where a person’s identity is verified by another human and then “forgotten?” I understand the concept of zero knowledge, but I’m not solid on how this system would actually meet the requirements of a so-called zero knowledge identity verification process.

What’s the downside if a VPN provider rents VPS servers instead of owning them?

Kodi is more of an OS, whereas Jellyfin is an app. I believe Jellyfin is available on Kodi. I mentioned Kodi b/c OP mentioned wanting to replace their chromecast.

When you mention big picture mode, are you talking about Bazzite’s big picture mode or just any distro w/ Plasma Bigscreen, or something else?

I can’t speak from personal experience, but I’d suggest looking into Kodi. It’s an open source OS designed for DIY stream boxes, meaning I believe you would need to install it on a mini PC or similar. Since I haven’t used it myself, I can’t provide you much specific advice on it, but depending on your use cases, it might be worth a shot.

Can you give some examples of activities that are locked behind government apps? And for those activities, can you not print a document and mail it in, or visit your government’s office in person? I realize this may be specific to your country, but I’m curious what kinds of scenarios I should watch out for in my own country. Thanks!

Whole family is connected to home network and home network has filters and blockers in the outgoing router.

Aside from the obvious benefit of blocking advertising traffic for all devices on your home network, does this strategy also improve your ability to blend in by eliminating the need for an ad blocking browser extension such as ubo?