It was possible to download lossless FLAC files (they got them straight from Deezer) though, so higher quality than anything downloaded from Youtube etc.

When the 7a launched the regular 7 was almost the same price already, so the gap is actually bigger than last year. But I guess they’ll just make the upcoming Pixel 9 more expensive as well to restore the gap again.

Doesn’t this affect Signal too? There is a setting under “Privacy -> Advanced” called “Always relay calls”, which routes calls through Signal servers to prevent IP leaks (and can decrease call quality)… This setting is disabled by default

There are some browsers with ad-blocking support, e.g. Firefox/Fennec/Mull with the uBlock Origin extension, or Brave Browser.

There used to be third party apps for Twitter, but afaik they don’t work anymore.

DNS blocking only works if the ads are loaded from a seperate subdomain.

I can reproduce this with the stock GOS keyboard (which is just the AOSP keyboard afaik), but it doesn’t happen when using the ‘Simple Keyboard’.

OpenBoard is based on the AOSP keyboard, which explains why it happens there too.