That’s not entirely correct, invidious doesn’t act as a proxy. From the invidious faq:

By default, the video stream is fetched directly from Google’s servers (googlevideo.com) in order to reduce the bandwidth required by invidious, meaning that Google will be able to see your IP address and some other data commonly sent by web browsers, like your user-agent string.

If I remember correctly some (mainly Microsoft made apps) are store only and some system apps are updated through it so probably a large part of users use it

Zypper may be a better name than apt, but it doesn’t have super cow powers.

Why would anyone use Apache open office over Libreoffice? Also where onlyoffice?

Emulation is a great for offline gaming. You can also find some great FOSS games on flathub like srb2, srb2k and Mindustry. You can also get old books for free on Project Gutenberg and audiobooks on Librivox. In Germany (and other European countries) there is state financed tv which has free drmfree adfree and (relatively) privacy friendly streaming services. Newgrounds also is a treasure trove, especially for music. Also there is piracy

It is open source and on the Mozilla store, did you get the right one? The idea is that you whitelist the websites you trust so only trusted sites can execute js. A lot of websites have js free alternatives like libreX/Y instead of google. There also is GNU librejs which only disables js that doesn’t show its source code. It being a main component of the tor browser tells you a lot about the threat level it’s for. As I understand it the difference to ublock is that it’s lists are on a “allow all but” basis and noscript is on a “block all but” basis.

Valid solution, but I miss unified updates with appimages and such

WhatsApp kind of has ads, in the form of advertised channels and still sucks up your data. For simplicity use Signal, for decentralized and number less registration use Simplex, and if you want the maximum privacy use Briar (Briar has huge trade offs for more privacy, so unless you gotta leak some documents or something I wouldn’t use it)

Another argument for alternative appstores

I don’t think they don’t care, they have been adding Linux versions for all of their apps (except drive of course). The CEO themselves said in an interview that a Linux client for drive is inevitable and they will make one, but one of the hardest clients to develop.

No no, it’s Linux on Android on Linux via waydroid in WSL in the Mac version of virtual box running via darling running on FreeBSD via LinuxJails

The WSL part was just a joke, but I do sometimes test apps on waydroid as I am using an IPhone currently and I want to switch, so for that I try apps on waydroid so I can easily replace IOS exclusive apps when I make the switch.

No, I’m using waydroid in wsl

Interesting, I think I’ll try it in waydroid

It also has google stuffed into it, and apparently the new consensus is that you need AI just as much for browsing as a search engine

In my experience no, apart from blender integration kdenlive does everything it does and more and kdenlive gets more new features. I just wish there weren’t 10 different Foss video editors that don’t come close to the proprietary ones instead of focusing on 2-3 projects, but that’s for the devs to decide

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Doesn’t really solve your issue, but have you considered the rpm? I’m using it with the same setup and it’s working perfectly

Nothing big, but I’m a big fan of the new UI for editing panels, even though it still needs some work

No, you see this is different from when google puts their headquarter in a different country to where they are working to pay less taxes because that’s … uh … just pay your 17 bucks and stop complaining.