Yeah the fact that the large transfer to Tides happened at the same time that the Tides CEO became General Counsel for Wikimedia seems pretty gross (and I say this as someone that in general would agree with Tides' mission otherwise)
To quote the page this HN submission links to:
"Concerns expressed then focused on the secrecy of the grant, the break with the participatory grantmaking principles the Foundation had until then embraced, and the fact that the transfer coincided with Amanda Keton's move in the 2019–2020 financial year from General Counsel of the Tides Network and CEO of Tides Advocacy to General Counsel of the Wikimedia Foundation"
I cannot remember the number at this point, but there was one specific release recently that did seem to make a significant improvement for me on MacOS.
I used to have heavy pages hang here and there and really burn some CPU (Facebook, etc) and sometimes even freeze without loading completely. Now on the same machine, the latest Firefox works just fine and avoids those states completely.
It's still a long way from perfect, but I once thought Firefox unusable on MacOS and went back to Chrome, but now that I've tried the latest FF releases, I'm happy enough with the performance that I'm staying with FF this time around
The only remaining sites with poor performance are Google products, and I blame Google for that and am trying to slowly remove myself from all of their products.
Have used a Pi-hole for two years and maybe had to whitelist one or two sites (easily found looking at the log), which was easy using Pi-hole's web interface
Additionally, you can simply disable Pi-hole for temporary timeframes using the web interface as well, it has options like "Disable for 15 minutes", if you don't want to bother adding things to a whitelist.
I've used all sorts of financial, ordering, etc. sites and generally have not run into an issue. A single credit card site was one of the two I had to whitelist, and it was easy.
To quote the page this HN submission links to: "Concerns expressed then focused on the secrecy of the grant, the break with the participatory grantmaking principles the Foundation had until then embraced, and the fact that the transfer coincided with Amanda Keton's move in the 2019–2020 financial year from General Counsel of the Tides Network and CEO of Tides Advocacy to General Counsel of the Wikimedia Foundation"