Does startpage (startpage.com) protect you from this?
RotatingParts
I've used this on my Samsung phone and I've seen better battery life with so much junk running in the background.
Just picked up the update to 5.27.8 on Kubuntu 23.04 via the backports
Yet another reason not to fly.
I wish I would have known about this before buying the Pinetab2. I didn't realize (completely my fault) that the Pinetab2 was a development unit without working wifi, bluetooth, camera and other issues. Once again, my fault, not Pine64's.
Any program that communicates with USB connected hardware via a non-standard, Windows only USB driver as provided by the hardware vendor. In other words, you can't just plug a device into any OS and start programing it via a standard USB driver.
Here is a site that rates news sites that may help you pick what sites to follow via RSS. I am sure there are other pages like this if this one doesn't seem accurate to you. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/
Use Linux, a VPN, Firefox with containers and multiple privacy add-ons. I use Veracrypt volumes to store "private" information in the cloud.
I want a stable OS, but I want the latest versions of applications (programs) without messing up anything. For me flatpak and snap meet that need, but I prefer flatpak.
I believe you can do this (and more) with Blend OS https://blendos.co/