they've done it for you by accident

what do you think updates are for?? please stop spreading such terrible practices

to be fair you always could remove edge, it just legitimately broke a lot of windows apps

while, yes, regardless of your privacy settings google still collects a sickening amount of data on you, much of these things (like voice recordings and location history) can be managed and disabled in the settings. if you wish to go further, grapheneos removes A LOT of tracking potential.

these should be opt in features, but one can opt out of much of them.

check Nix instead.

out dated and abandoned. use LocalCDN instead (although it's kinda useless as well from a tracking perspective)

IP is a fake concept

I'm curious what would even be "snuck into it" ?

nextdns is the most performant option I've used. it often beats our cloudflare even. adguard wasn't bad but it was a bit more cumbersome and very slow.

I don't like recommending self hosting as opening ports on a private network isn't a great idea. you could use something like cloudflare or tailscale to bridge access but you'll run into issues with network speeds.

you only need one totp app.... people baffle me.

idk what to tell you. it's not in any way indicating a message of superiority.

this is known as a strawman. nice try