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Why do I need to pay for the service that I don't use anymore not £1.79 but ~£20 for a year? Okay, my mistake, I am okay to lose these £20, not a big deal.

But if the service ignores customer requests to the billing@ email, then that's not a good sign.

I stopped using NextDNS when I forgot to cancel subscription and contacted then immediately to issue a refund. They ignored my request, were no answers at all.

I am not alone, this is a typical behavior. At least it was 3 years ago.

I use AdGuard DNS now.

You can try Wipr2/Filtr: https://kaylees.site/wipr2-whats-new.html

Based on the description it solves exactly your issue, but requires iOS 26/macOS 26.

Personally I use Adguard + their DNS. This combination is very good, but WebView blocking will be working with the DNS part, not content blocker. So alternative is PiHole.

> Or, like lazy me, mark and drag the displayed name into the field

Yes, the same, unfortunately. This rail guard works for only a couple of days or weeks when the perception is fresh. After that, it's always "select, copy, paste, confirm" without thinking.

I believe the better approach is to practice "Chaos Monkeys" and improve the infrastructure to survive even if someone makes a mistake.

Funny, I recalled a tool called "molly-guard" which solves the problem when you want to reboot a Unix server, but can be on the wrong one. It asks to type the server name.

Anybody who rebooted a wrong server can say that this tool is brilliant.

Like "--dry-run" but for "reboot."

It's not strictly related to the original theme, but I want to mention this.

Ansible implementation is okay, but not perfect (plus, this is difficult to implement properly). For cases like file changes, it works, but if you install a package and rely on it later, the --check command will fail. So I am finding myself adding conditions like "is this a --check run?"

Ansible is treated as an idempotent tool, which it's not. If I delete a package from the list, then it will pollute the system until I create a set of "tearing-down" jobs.

Probably, Nix is a better alternative.

I wish this feature existed in the app. I use a lo-fi approach and delete these chats manually every day. Not the best way, but it works for me.

This issue looks like a situation where one person stored all their files and folders in the Windows Recycle Bin and somebody emptied it.

It might be my professional deformation, but I never store anything in ChatGPT and Claude for longer than a day or two.

I don't say that this CLI tool is a replacement for Calibre, but it covers all my needs by converting FB2 books into EPUB and making some cosmetic fixes:

https://github.com/rupor-github/fb2converter