Yes, it’s accurate. Although I enjoyed using Ubuntu (iirc started with 5.10 or 6.10) due to it’s friendliness to newcomers, Canonical is on the business side of Linux distributions (think Redhat).

Debian (which Ubuntu is derived from), is privacy friendly and leans heavily towards the open source ethos imo.

With that being said there’s tons of options out there. Distrowatch is a great place to window shop before grabbing a live .iso :)

Opensnitch +1

Loaded question. Governments, country and state level, technocrats, fascists.

Lots of disingenuous comments in this thread regarding the change being “just json” considering they’re already on a warpath of implementing id verification. They are testing the water to see what they can get away with. Furthermore, the Linux community has always been against shit like this (see: systemd outrage, open bios, gnu etc).