silent_squirrel

Austria, mid 20s, yes

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OpenSUSE, mostly because they differ too much from other distros, often even without any (obvious) advantages.

For example a lot of file paths (config files and such) are different, and when being used to other distros (or just following a guide from the internet) it takes longer to find it (I know there is Yast but I'm not a huge fan of that tool either)

Also, Manjaro

There are some browsers with ad-blocking support, e.g. Firefox/Fennec/Mull with the uBlock Origin extension, or Brave Browser.

There used to be third party apps for Twitter, but afaik they don't work anymore.

DNS blocking only works if the ads are loaded from a seperate subdomain.

I can reproduce this with the stock GOS keyboard (which is just the AOSP keyboard afaik), but it doesn't happen when using the 'Simple Keyboard'.

OpenBoard is based on the AOSP keyboard, which explains why it happens there too.

Personally I wouldn't mind a few preinstalled apps, if they can actually be uninstalled, not just disabled which seems to be the case for some.

But the "Meta Services" thing seems shady af, its not showing up in the app drawer because its just a background service most people don't even know it exists. Its also not needed, because all of the Meta apps work just fine without it. So realistically Meta just pays Samsung a lot of money for something that only has the purpose to collect a lot of user data (it can also access more data than regular apps because it's installed as an system app)

There is still a lot of stuff preinstalled which could be considered unwanted by a lot of people (TikTok, Netflix, Spofify, multiple MS apps, Disney+, Facebook, Meta Services, ...)

Yes

Never played the other Witcher games, but TW3 is one of my all-time favorites and I completed the whole story (including DLCs) like three times already.