Or simply can use, Bitwarden or Protonpass

Absolutely this

They’ll only see the IP you’re connecting with and encrypted data packets being transferred on.

Agreed. Most of the servers are behind proxies anyway.

Doesn’t change anything. Most of the US allies are US vassals nowadays.

ELI5 the second part?

Well… that escalated pretty quickly

That was insightful. Thank you

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Same question

Being open source by default doesn’t make a project secure and privacy friendly (especially if it’s server sided code. You can’t really verify for sure)

Same

Edge > Chrome these days

And that’s terrifying.

Imagine you didn’t even heard about google, but some of your colleague/friend use Google contact synching (which is very default these days) And ta da! Google knows your name and number with 99% percent of accuracy.

Probably Adguard or Pihole? (Some network level blocking?)

Don’t waste taxpayers money, resources on them. They simply don’t deserve to live for “rest of their lives in jail”

Yes. But the term has changed

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Where do you see them generally?

I agree