Some extensions, such as SponsorBlock for YouTube actually limit themselves so they can only operate when the browser is on youtube.com. This can be declared in the extension manifest. It's a separate permission to access data on all web sites vs. access data on a specific website.

I used to rely on Consent-O-Matic a lot, but I'm somewhat uncomfortable by the fact that the extension has full access to all web page content. I mean I understand why, but I'm still uncomfortable with it. In the end I ended up uninstalling it because it broke some sites so that they wouldn't load at all, or got stuck into an infinite reload loop. On majority of cases it works alright though.

Sounds like a job for the Mullvad browser, since that clears cookies on every restart by default.

Let's see what kind of proxy / censorship circumvention measures Meta is willing to develop for WhatsApp. My guess: precisely fuck all.

Yes, a Signal proxy, such as https://signal.tube/#fiberchannel.org would be very helpful.

I don't want to go through the whole "DM me for the link" route because the people who need this info are probably not in a position to start creating accounts for random social media sites. If it gets scraped, I'm happy. If it gets DDoSd to the ground by nation state actors, I'm proud. If it gets blocked, I can change the IP address and the domain at the click of a button.