I don’t really undeestand from this mail how is it not open source, but I am not well versed in licenses and technicalities either.

I am also genuinely interested in further explanation of this view.

I have my status bar on both monitors by default on Hyprland.

I am also in that basket. To me Usenet seems like another, older protocol that achieves practically the same thing. If someone is more knowledgeble, feel free to correct me or explain further.

Sorry for the late reply, look for ILoveCandy option in the config.

You can have actual Pacman emoji for the progress :)

Why are they shut down?

I have been having this problem 2 days ago, but I have started using NoScript in combination with UBlock Origin yesterday and i didn’t see any ads after that.