You can install an apps which basically display the WhatsApp webpage like an app, if you use flathub at least

Still better than FB Messenger, that's really popular among the youth where I live.

I've looked into ecosia and they store IPs for a week to "protect ourselves from spammers". They encrypt your searches, use Bing for results and ads, but they filter the "annoying" ones. I think they are pretty good overall.

I use ClamAV to scan files (🏴‍☠️) I download from not so trusted sources from the internet, you don't really need an antivirus for Linux.

Even if you are unfingerprintable they can still easily track you based on your home IP, so VPN is also needed. Although, yes, UBP and hardened Firefox (or other browser) should be the first step.

Yes! Proton mail started to behave like typical corporation :(

You are right, chat GPT is more conversational than Google assistant, the comment was probably a joke.