TalkingCat-

You can also circumvent geo blocking with a proxy, some of them are free, do not send any sensitive info on the free proxies however, not that a paid one is intrinsicaly safer, just like vpns.

To be fair someone that uses DDG most likely already has ublock origin.

Unlikely, they would use checksums for this, not the filename.

Eh, depends on the project

Except for bonuses, profit sharing

This reads like equating tipping to salary.

I thought it was from the “better with rice” thing