@TheBreadmonkey the speed has been fine 🤷 I set it as the default in Firefox for both myself and another (someone who is also keen on privacy and for whom I am tech support 😅) and if it was insufferably slow, we would both have noticed.

Disclaimer: we're also the types to militantly deGoogle ourselves and be somewhat willing to pay the price 😉

Unless it is an Internet speed thing (I haven't had any problems when using mobile data) and/or geographical thing?🤔