Because of comments like this I am missing the downvote button on my instance...
You forgot that you were using arch, btw.
Can you create an account with a burner email? When I tried it about a year ago, plus some legitimate addresses, it never worked or it straight asked for a phone number. I gave them a temp number, received a code, it 'ran into an unexpected error'.
I mostly agree with you and frankly it is enough to have one friend who uploads their contacts to big tech firms with yours included and maybe tags you here and there and you are already uploading data without your consent.
Although what I see recently is that facebook fails to recommend anything interesting to me. I had to keep my account, but deleted everything from the day of my registration and haven't uploaded a single thing for years.
I highly doubt that this will work in my case, as my wife only watches romcoms, but I'll give it a try.
My wife sends me products she finds interesting and they all contain the facebook tracker at the end. It is a scientific fact that women are better consumers, hence ads are mostly created for them. My wife hates ads while watching videos, but taps on them during scrolling all the time. Fortunately I haven't been asked to get her off pi-hole. It is tricky with ads, as you think that they are offering a solution for something, but in many cases they are establishing a desire you did not have before.
There's also navidrome, if you only want to stream music.
India will have a real problem in a couple of decades... Or they will make their own models with unlimited lifetime honks.
I bought an anonaddy subscription. I am finally also able to use my domain.
At least apple uses the data to sell you their stuff to my knowledge. On the other hand, google bombards you with ads from tons of different firms and sells you out to these companies.
I have a phone that I am not using tn, capable to run ubuntu touch. I constantly need to remind me why I switched back to lineage os, when I get the idea that I should try it again. The most annoying is the short battery life, which hasn't been fixed for about 5 years.
Thank you! I have enabled it, another 12 GB space to be able to play, I'll see if it will work. Edit: it only starts CS2.