It depends if the VPN skip it or not, but a VPN can enter in conflict if your connection goes already over an proxy, which is probably the case in Startpage. There are are several proxy extensions in the stores, eg. CyberGhost, and VPNLY, if you activate both, they’ll give an error.

Yes and no, what ocurred is that Startpage in default privacy mode, us an own proxy, which may enter in conflict with an VPN. You can’t use an VPN or Proxy over another one. Startpage, even now owned by System one, remains pretty private.

For what we see nowadays in TV, I often thought to substitute it with a Fishtank, smarter content, HD 3D, true color and no spyware

Well, as said before, with the use I give to the TV, it’s anyway irrelevant for me. Logging the news or an ocassional docu in the public TV? Which ads will they show in channels which don`t have?

Any TV nowadays is a smart TV, dumb TV are not longer exist since several years, but I don’t think that the TV can connect to the Neighbours WiFi (so smart to crack the passcode, normally long as my arm, my router even with an inbuild Firewall, well…), and even if it is the case, they log the activity of the neighbours WiFi, not mine. There isn’t any network activity in my TV, apart watching 99% Public TV which don’t have ads in most EU countries (because of this, movies in EU public TV are country restricted, I can watch these only in the PC, visiting their homepage using an Proxy with an server of the corresponding country).

I have an LG “Smart” TV, but because I don’t use it much (view the News in the Public TV and little more) I never connected it to the WiFi, so offline this Live Plus is irrelevant for me.

Desktop app Portmaster

I can’t even access any Fakebook crap, because I have blocked any Zuckerbot service since a long time. It don’t exist anymore for me in the web.

Agree, it has no technical reasons for not having European sovereignty, only political, bureaucratic reasons, ignorance and commodity that prevent it. There are plenty of good and even better alternatives to US big brother crap.

My favorite model

Yeah, but a PDF file is another thing. Anyway old DOOM works on a shoebox if you want and for sure also in the old UNIX.

I think so, if DOOM even works in a PDF file

https://doompdf.pages.dev/doom.pdf

And even on a pregnancy test stick

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a33957256/this-programmer-figured-out-how-to-play-doom-on-a-pregnancy-test/

Always bad when the net policy is made by old people which confuse an remote control with an smartphone.

As said, independent of the OS, every soft, add, extension, script you install without checking it, is an Malware vector. Windhawk even advice to check the script before you active it. All scripts are full listed in the app. There is nothing hidden https://github.com/ramensoftware/windhawk

No, after >30 years using PCs I’m very aware of this and what enter or leave the system.

If you like, with Windhawk you can have, without any problems, the look and feel of Windows 98 in Windows 11. The biggest problem in Windows is the amount of bloatware, spyware, services which nobody needs and other crap filling the memory, which it has by default. Luckily there are tons of FOSS apps out there which permits to show the middlefinger to M$ and turn it in a fast, small and reasonable private OS (my Windows has less than 800 MB in RAM (RAM 16GB -15,3 GB free) and is blazing fast.). All apps and tools I use are FOSS.

Cheaper than the creditcard test

Agree, but there are still differences. Not that the EU is better, but at least less evil (depending on the country)

Yes, this is why using Windhawk is mandatory in W11 (apart of Portmaster)

It’s absolute nonsense the MS argumentation about it, when a simple script of Windhawk with few lines solve this “problem” same as with the crappy W11 Startmenu.

Windhawk is something like an Userscript Manager, with tons of different scripts to change at the Milimetre instant any aspect of the UI, no restart needed, on off the change with a click. All script visible and editable.

“Your Privacy is our Business” is also a Google slogan