disguise ads
While the intentions behind this are mostly evil nowadays, there’s also the design aspect to be considered.
Imagine a nice, modern and minimal UI, and suddenly some flashy colorful element in the feed. it just hurts a designers feeling.
4chan is racist? I always thought it’s just gross in many ways and not specific to racism.
It’s called “adsomeWm”… highly un-customizinle.
I still append reddit to my query. it shows a handful of reddit links at the top. the rest are just random sites.
One time, I even came across a SEO optimized site that had the word “reddit” scattered all over with nothing but nonsense.
I have the assumption that kagi’s results from reddit have gotten sparse lately. but maybe it’s just me
it would be hilarious if the tool had ads in it
Haven’t done it myself, but his might help you for further research
iptables
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/264589/traffic-of-specific-program-through-vpn
network interfaces
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/234583/routing-on-per-application-basis