Yea its pure insanity and greed. This is just one of many examples of why I have dual piholes on top of ad blocking extensions.

Examples: I turned on the duckduckgo protection, opened the official app and visited a couple posts.

https://files.catbox.moe/sqbg87.jpg https://files.catbox.moe/nj7y8d.jpg

I’m using a self hosted installation using docker thats not open to the internet. Its only open to my internal network. I would strongly suggest not making it public. Especially if you have datacaps on your ISP.

However being paranoid about being IP banned by Google I took it a step further. I’m using Gluetun https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun to host a docker container that runs proton vpn and allows other docker containers to connect to it and use the vpn connection. Also has the benefit of being a http proxy.