DDG proxies Bing results with extra privacy. Startpage proxies Google results with extra privacy (it’s a bit slow in my opinion though).

Ecosia proxies both with a bit oft extra privacy, as long as you don’t click or block the advertised results.

SearX proxies whatever you want, but its kinda slow last time I tried it.

Brave Search builds their own index, which is pretty good (on par with Bing) even though they’re only about a year old at this point. The company is a bit sketchy though.

free libre open source software.

Basically software by the people for the people controlled and kept in check by the people.

what kind of prof is that?

Sorry for the late reply but yes, this works on Lineage, one of the reasons I’m using it!

SEO isn’t something google invented, it was just a result of their actions.

A lot oft ROMs allow you go completely disable Internet access for a certain app. Disabling the data collection toggles in GBoard and disabling internet access for GBoard, Play Services, Play Store and the Google App should prevent most logging.

Lead engineer was a (really good) engineer at some point. Also lead engineer still needs to understand a lot about programming and the project they’re working with

Almost all Linuxes are really private. Because of your ethics and morals, I would probably switch to Debian or Arch, and use Flatpak where possible to prevent apps from spying on one another and reading files from other apps or your system.

Kicksecure, Whonix, Tails, Qubes, … exist but they’re not needed and to much of a hassle for day to day use for most people.

Yes, which is what I use. I don’t really like the company and people behind it, and they’ve did some shady stuff but the other chromium browsers aren’t really any better.

Woe, that’s… something else

Firefox Sync exists though, and it does the same.

They already have the Framework Chromebook, which should ship with Coreboot.

If your games are on Steam, check ProtonDB.

If not, you’re probably out of luck, but check recent Search Engine results. Best to limit results to around last 6 months, otherwise you’ll probably get outdated information. Only a few bigger non-steam multiplayer shooters work, I can only think of Overwatch right now.

Somehow they might got a special version of the app. Really really unlikely though, it’s probably just A/B testing or false logs.

Kinda like this: https://youtu.be/OLRldZjty_s

Carrier Pigeons

I don’t hate it, I really want to like it. It’s just that I have a rather niche issue that really bugs me and forces me to chromium (or derivatives).

FIDO2 / YubiKey support on Chromium is far superior compared to FF.

While we all hate reddit, them changing the app icon to make a reference to what used to be a fun event shouldn’t be our main point.

It doesn’t require you to use Facebook though. They might use FB analytics or tracking, but probably dont, or only for very few users.

Exodus Privacy detects trackers in apps, here is their report for Ally: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.ally.MobileBanking/latest/

Many other apps contain way more and worse trackers, just some Amazon and Google Firebase is on the light side.

According to Exodus Privacy (they analize mobile apps for trackers), Ally only contains Amazon and Google trackers (Google Firebase Analytics is used by almost all apps): https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.ally.MobileBanking/latest/

Others also say their Ally app doesn’t connect to Facebook. Maybe you have a Unicorn or a modified app (rather unlikely though)?