It definitely is the next thing I will try, but I thought it would be better to ask the hivemind for solutions first :D

I have Slides enabled, it has the nicest viewing experience for me - until now

No, not that I know of. When I open Lemmy in the webview of my instance (feddit.org) I can still see the votes

Edit: Corrected spelling mistake in instance name. Damn you, auto correct!

Daran habe ich mich am Anfang auch sehr gestört, v.a. die ganzen Sachen, die im Buch hat nicht vorkamen und reingepresst wurden (v.a. Azog). Heute stört mich viel mehr das unterirdische CGI bei Azog und den anderen Orks

Sadly the firewall bypass doesn’t work as good as it did in the beginning :( A lot of websites changed how they implement a paywall and I read some rumours a while back, that some news sites closed a deal with the developer/hoster of 12ft. Allegedly, 12ft would be paid to exclude certain news sites from the bypass - I don’t know whether those rumours have been confirmed or not