Companies always give their best deals to new customers. You are likely paying way higher than market rate for your bills.

Crypto is likely the best solution. You should get some Monero and donate that. You can ask an AI chatbot like Google AI studio how to get some and put it into a self custody wallet in your country.

Wikipedia has enough money to pay their costs for decades, so I recommend dropping them.

Look on a price comparison site. Most of the bill increases are due to the loyalty tax.

Have you tried PhotoGIMP?

You can turn off the fingerprint protection in the Librewolf tab of the settings page.

Morphe takes the official YouTube app and modifies it to remove ads and add background play morphe.software

You should try Librewolf and Helium.

They are a bit untransparent to me with how direct match (inserts affiliate links) and whitelisting of “partner sites” are enabled by default without consent.

Use Librewolf as your main browser with Helium for Google Meet.

Install uBlock Origin and disable any others then the ad blocker problem will be solved.

As for other things, look for backups. If DDG shuts down, search up alternatives. If piefed.social shuts down, find another instance, and do on.

The problem with the internet is not the internet itself, but the big tech platforms.

By using sites like Mastodon and Lemmy, using a browser with uBlock Origin installed, and disabling Web & App activity, personalised ads, etc on your phone, you are taking a stand, and routing around the bad stuff exactly as intended.

I recommend looking at Helium and Cromite as alternatives.

As for Firefox, I don’t like it too, and I’ve wrote a similar post about it on this sub but it got downvoted by -66 points.

Have you tried Cromite?

Which browser are you using?

How does even a single Lemmy client work on that?

If you still have that service issue, get an MVNO SIM that runs on a different network.

One you update it, make sure to turn on reduce transparency so the liquid glASS doesn’t make it lag a ton.

A used Pixel with GrapheneOS is the best choice. GrapheneOS doesn’t have Google tracking and is likely the most secure mobile OS.0

I would say that 6 years is quite good. Phone batteries are supposed to be replaced every two years, and if you got it replaced then you could have kept using it until 2024.