Enabling DoH with max protection probably solves that.

Ventoy might be able to do the same.

Build a live boot USB for windows: https://monovm.com/blog/how-to-create-a-windows-live-usb/

Decent instructions but you need windows to follow them.

Use MS Edge

Use Chrome. Edge is a minority browser (has a market share of ~10 %). Using chrome though gives all your data to google ( so not recommended).

They are pretty much equal. See https://privacytests.org/

It does as well as setting your locale to en-us, timezone to utc and giving random output from canvas every time.

Edit: You can also enable a fixed size for you window. More precisely the area which is visible to content (and also to javascript). https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/#what-are-the-most-common-downsides-of-rfp-resist-fingerprinting

All very good points.

No google on device no tracking, and I don’t use google services anyhow (with first party clients anyhow). I do have google play services installed but no google account so they don’t have an identity to connect the data they might be able to collect from the phone. Only google service I use is youtube but that’s with third party clients only (FreeTube & NewPipe) over vpn of course.

Laughs in GrapheneOS.

Have a look at Grayjay for youtube and other video sites.

If it’s a matroska (mkv) file you can use mktoolnix (use the header editor) to set default tracks.

If developers want to make a desktop application they should use proper cross platform desktop frameworks like QT or GTK or even JavaFX instead of a webpage disguised as an application.

Can’t they be both? Potato potahto.

It will destroy the Universe if we do that. /s

? is the start of the suffixes, & denotes a change in suffix

Technically speaking they are query parameters not suffixes.

Windows update, at least since the inception of the concept has never required me to go to a browser

In xp it still was an website which required IE due to activex used to do the updates.

Can you give more details? What apps do you use? Anything worth noting? Thinking about doing this myself as well.

Second this. Tumbleweed is a great distro. Nearly everything you’ll need can be found in default repos. Then there are several endorsed (semi) official add-on repos, and if that fails there’s always OBS (opi is your friend for searching those).

Daily rsync to a local nas and weekly backups to offsite with pika-backup.

Excellent article. That’s why I use OSS first and foremost as they don’t have the incentive to bring in € instead they are more focused on a quality product.

It is against the GDPR.