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Tetrachloride

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5. Yes and no.

Reply to dflprincess (Original post)

Sat Jan 3, 2026, 08:39 PM

Saturday

1. Use browser Duckduckgo and or Brave

2. if you have a local geek, have them install a hosts.txt file for various blocking

3. ( additional strategies for hiding financial passwords)

( there’s more but i hesitate to give information which may be outdated or something)

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