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There’s 2 parts to this:

• Android Auto app (on your phone)
• Android Auto Head Unit software (in your car)

Both of which are currently proprietary,
and would need to be written as FOSS from the ground up by reverse engineering the above 2, which would be a huge undertaking.

Also flashing custom Head Unit software to your car will be very hard, is not well documented, and likely will void your warranty, giving low incentive for developers to even attempt it :/

The best you can do right now is aa4mg (Android Auto 4 MicroG),
which at least allows to replace the proprietary Google Play services with a privacy respecting FOSS alternative and Android Auto’s dependencies with empty stub packages:
https://github.com/sn-00-x/aa4mg

Full disclosure,
I helped with writing aa4mg :)

Please edit the post,
as a few people pointed out already,
it’s not true.

They do ban based on IP,
just switch your VPN connection until you can access it again.

They’re trying to block third party and privacy respecting solutions though,
but that’s been a cat and mouse game for a while now.

Bootkitty?

However,
you can already patch your BIOS to become secure again! :)

All in all, Windows security is a joke compared to Linux’s.

Oh yeah I know!

Lately I aim to only install FOSS apps from F-Droid for that reason.

If no F-Droid app available / only Play Store, then I always scan them with ClassyShark3xodus against trackers.

If they’re filled with trackers (very likely) and not absolutely nessecary for my daily workflow, I uninstall them immediately.

Currently about 75% of my apps come from F-Droid, and hope to only increase that percentage! :)

Bose headphone owner + IT guy here,
their app is filled to the brim with spyware last time I checked!

Uninstalled it immediately after de-compiling and scanning for known trackers with ClassyShark3xodus.

No regrets, the headphones work perfectly well without that stupid app!

Next time you get consumerism cravings,
try out a new open source app of some sort!

Looking for one feels like shopping / getting a new thing.

It won’t upset your wallet,
it will likely make you happy,
it will make the developer of the app happy,
and it will likely be good for your privacy/battery life as well!

Afaik Qubes runs all software in containers,
which isolates them from each other,
which is great for privacy.

However, OP only asked for Chrome,
and I assume the jump to Qubes might be too big.

To only isolate Chrome,
I’d recommend a Flatpak instead.

Or even better Ungoogled-Chromium.

Windows is not getting better,
CoPilot, Recall, all more unwanted spyware…

UniGetUI is a good way to maintain software on Windows in a Linux fashion through package managers,
however that does not change that the underlying OS is pure spyware.

Regarding AI, I filled it in as following:

• What is most important to you right now about technology and the internet?
  • Other (please specify): Fuck AI
• In your opinion, what is the most important work for Mozilla to do right now?
  • Other (please specify): Do not implement AI
• What is most important to you in AI?
  • Select nothing

Yes, the script uses git svn under the hood,
however it simplifies the process of a fair amount of steps,
to just x1 easy CLI command with an in/output parameter.

Nope, only SVN => Git

SearXNG: https://github.com/searxng/searxng

It enhances and respects privacy,
is open source and self hostable,
and queries multiple configurable search engines (google, bing, brave, duckduckgo, …)

You can find a list of public hosted instances here:
https://searx.space/

However I prefer to slap an instance randomizer on top, so each of my queries goes through another public SearXNG instance, for more privacy, and mostly, to bypass rate-limiting after frequent queries.

For this I use:

• On Desktop - GimmeASearX:
  https://github.com/demostanis/gimmeasearx
• On the go - SearX NeoCities:
  https://searx.neocities.org/

That behavior fucking sucks actually

That’s true,
but hey, filtering and blocking out 90% of the unwanted/negative content is already way better then getting blasted by the full 100%! :D

Bliss for mental health indeed,
been doing this for a while now,
zero regrets.

I feel the same,
to battle it I drive with my sun visors down,
all the time, even when it’s dark.

I never voted for these camera’s,
and driving with them down is not illegal,
but they successfully block the sight of most camera’s.

Unsure,
however it’s refreshing to see posts of this clown which actually make me smile instead of concerned.

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Congrats @MrSebSin,
due to your depressing comics,
without flagging them as such,
without giving us the ability to filter them out,
I decided to un-subscribe and block this community as a whole.

Fuck Cyanide & Depressiness,
I miss Cyanide & Happiness!..