I torrent without VPN in the EU. I've been doing so for years. Still no letters as of writing this comment.
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My Samsung microwave works just fine and has been doing so for the last twenty years
It is true, and I've seen it myself. At first I refused to believe, but sadly we're already at that state.
You can't just fork a browser engine. You need a lot of resources to keep one alive. The only browser engine that I know of which was successfully forked was goanna. And that's a gecko fork from when it wasn't even multithreaded, and it still took years.
So, it depends on google
Brave is google
Usually autocorrect accuracy is directly proportional to info stealing by the keyboard. Google's autocorrect is so good because it's constantly phoning home with what people write so they can improve their model.
I use a keyboard with no autocorrect (Unexpected Keyboard), and, although it took a while to get used to it, I got used to typing fast and mostly accurately after some time using it. You can also get used to your autocorrect's quirks, and you'll find that you will type faster with it.
Brave is chrome
Vivaldi is google
I have an extension that lets me block sites from search results. Half the spanish news sites are blocked, because I'm tired of seeing an interesting result, clicking on it, not being able to refuse cookies and having to go back.
Torrenting on the TOR network is actively discouraged. It uses a lot of bandwidth, and it hurts other people's speeds.
If you want to torrent on an anonymous network, use I2P. It may be harder to set up than TOR, but you can torrent entirely inside it. It has trackers inside, and a lot of clearnet torrents have also been listed on them. And most importantly, I2P is more prepared for torrenting than TOR is. When you connect to it, you add capacity to the network, so using bandwidth for torrenting is not as detrimental to it.