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Yeah, qwant, the same search engine with complete reliance on huawei and bing, who asked to deactivate adblocker to use their page. Qwant isn’t privacy focused, it’s just marketing

The name “lineage” is because it’s a “descendant” of cyanogenmod, not because it’s intended for older phones

Those are what I use 😁. You can check here for some trusted repo https://t.me/fdroid_repos

Exactly

I’m conflicted about sponsorblock, I usually hate youtuber sponsor (since those are usually scam) but I don’t know if there is a more ethical way to earn money from ads, since donations aren’t usually enough

Phones in India can be bought for near 50$, and that provide everything a common citizen (and I mean mandatory government app and messaging) need. And 50$ still isn’t cheap for most of the population. It’s a totally different economy than usa

Millions of people in the world don’t know to have a choice or even can’t stop using google products. Google has a near monopoly and it isn’t just something you can totally evade

Cause fuck DRM. And sometimes because updates and game version on steam are different (e.g. skyrim version on steam support more mods than gog version)