Could you not apply this “funded by the CIA” argument to other things such as… The Tor Network? Which was created by the US Military Naval Research? Also some US government departments have donated to Tor. Does that mean Tor is breached?

Maybe I’m wrong but if I recall don’t you need a phone number and such for a google account which is an identifier?

Steam has Proton now which is a god send for Linux gaming. https://www.protondb.com/ which is just a setting in the Steam client.

For games it depends on what might interest you. If you are into history sorta stuff, maybe Civilization V or VI? If you want more of a fun game that a lot of non gamers play, you try The Sims or Stardew Valley. If you want something like the current trend of games, try Helldiver’s 2 or Baldurs Gate 3.

If you ultimately don’t have a preference. Just browse the sales on steam for games that look interesting as well as browsing https://www.humblebundle.com/ which can sometimes be good. Just check it against that protondb or look up if the game runs good on Linux first before purchasing.

I know it will eventually be blocked by YouTube like Twitch did but you could try ublock Origin with this filter list or another custom filter list. Works pretty well for me.

https://github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts

The account delete option still exists?

The other two I wouldn’t know about because I never used those features previously.

I forget about port forwarding because I never get to seed because of my abysmal upload speed.

Mullvad or Proton. IVPN is also good.