Also on Nebula https://nebula.tv/videos/people-make-games-rockstar-vs-union-we-went-to-court-and-saw-the-evidence

We do. It's called Romeo. No nonsense. No AI. Just people. They listen to their users.

People should stop using these ad and tracking apps disguised as some useful app.

I'm using their starter lifetime plan, and everything works flawlessly. That's a plan where you pay only once and keep it forever.

neither ctrl+z nor ctrl+q work

Ctrl + z will send the task to the background. You can use jobs to see all active background work. Fg will bring background work to the foreground. Ctrl + q is not a valid shortcut as far as I know. Looks a bit like a mac thing (command + q).

A solution is not to use any product, service or software made by MS or google.

MicroG is somewhat hacky solution that emulates play services. When you have proper play services you do have all the functionality available. Since it's sandboxed play services don't have any privileged access to the system thus can only access data which is available to any normal app.

I would quit youtube immediately but there are some good content creators that don't post their videos elsewhere and I do want to watch them. Gladly there's FreeTube for that.

Quite true. Linux and all modules loaded into it are GPL licensed. The userland and tooling on the other hand can be licensed however. They are free to close source on anything except kernel code.

LibreWolf

They are the "patterns" others mentioned.

Google is lying to you. They don’t want your phone number to “verify it’s you”. They want your phone number because it’s an effective measure against bot accounts.

There you're correct that they are lying and don't want the number to verify. They want it so they can link the profile they have to an actual person. That'll make the profile more valuable to them. Better tracking etc.