In Vivaldi I’ve an global/per site setting

Good choice for Privacy, apart it’s an european browser (Sweden), but somewhat basic in other features and sync with Mozilla. Only 2 other EU browsers, Konqueror (KHTML, Germany) and Vivaldi (degoogled Chromium, Norway), UR (France) sadly death since years.

As an old retiree I know that life is incompatible with long time plans, life always has other ones. More important to have enough mental sources to be capable to make the bestt of current situations.

If you like an RPG, Diablo style, there is also FLARE (Free/Libre Action Roleplaying Engine)

The Dark Mod is certainly the best and most advanced OpenSource game I know (well, not full OpenSource, because the user created missions, currently 170, are with several CC licensed assets, released because of this as freeware)

With your phone they already know it and where you are in every moment, if you don’t desactivate GPS.

Only if you activate the Recall feature which is well known, far from beeing secret. Apart of this, using the Portmaster app, you can controkk and block any MS telemetries with an simple click. Windows permits a lot of privacy settings, but naturally it don’t say it to the users how to do it. A good handling of Windows need an more advanced user as Linux. Windows only seems easier to handle in the surface.

I understand your point of view and I think that, if you already pay for an service which works for you, than changing to another is only an option and only recommended if you woun’t pay anymore for it. You can still test InviZible Pro apart, without a risk, because it’s FOSS, pausing your current service.

This is why I always look for an free, or better OpenSource alternative, before I use an paid one (in over 20 years this I never had needed). The first look for a needed soft or service is always in AlternativeTo.

Also an good choice, but Invizible Pro, apart of the DNS options, also offers the connection to I2P and TOR network.

Invizible Pro is an “must have” on the phone, (!) but download it from F-Droid, not from Google Play

it means exactly this, the server hasn’t any knowledge about your uploaded files or encrytion key. It’s very save, but not really P2P, because of an server in the middle where the files are stored until download. Real P2P is eg, Croc, which transfer files direct from one PC to the other, without any server in the middle, you send an link which pointed direct to the files in your PC. The advantage is that you have anytime full control over the files and with this no limits on filesizes, but maybe a drawback is, that downloads are only possible, when your PC is online, on the other hand, this permits also to interrupt downloads, simply going offline, (it’s FOSS)

From Switzerland, Sharrr, OpenSource, encrypted EE2E, no knowledge, 10GB/file, one time download. From the same author, https://scrt.link/, for share autodestructive encrypted notes.

Also nice GeoGebra, OpenSource from Austria (EU), online, Android, iPhone

Not FOSS but great, OmniCalculator from Poland (EU), online, free, a collection of 3718 calculators for every task.

No, worse is not the amount, but where they are sent these telemetrias. A browser with a lot of features may have also a lot of tech telemetries related to these features to ensure a smooth operation. This is not the same as sending browserdata to third parties, like Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc. which has nothing to do with the browserfeatures but with logging and selling userdata. Even worse if you use above an search engine which logs your activity, like Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.

Important only which requests go out and to where. If tech data go to the company of the browser, it’s OK, but not if user data goes to Amazon, Alphabet, Facebook, Towerdata, etc., which has nothing to do with the functionality of the browser. Permissions can be restricted in the settings of the OS.

https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/

Not so important how much telemetries, but where these go. A complex feature rich browser can have a lot of tech telemetries, but this is only bad if these go to sites not related to the functionality and third parties, eg. to Facebook, Amazon and others.

Another crap like Hola VPN, it’s free, because it don’t use public servers, but the bandwith of its users, simply exchanging their IP. A terrible risky system. DON’T USE IT.

https://coolsymbol.com/

Element is a good alternative, OpenSource and federated