There are some more privacy friendly forks of “Firefox for Android”, which have sponsored shortcuts disabled or minimized by default. For example:

• https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild
• https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox

Feel free to give them a try :)

The same apps that have access to more of your data (because they’re not sandboxed in a browser), use electron (ships a browser) and include trackers that one can’t simply block with an extension?

As far as I can tell it’s the other ways around: IPv4 is getting more costly

Example: AWS started to charge for IPv4 addresses a few months ago - a IPv4 address now costs around $3.6 per month