Hard to take them seriously, if they can’t even use a search engine to realize most of this is complete bullshit. What is this? A Twitter post?

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/FAQ#how-do-i-pass-cookies-to-yt-dlp

No ads, open-source code

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.andreyasadchy.xtra/

I’d rather not use a computer at all than use GNOME for the rest of my live.
For me it’s KDE Plasma all the way.

Wasn’t there some EU regulation that forces companies to give you a summary of the changes of privacy policies and ToS?

Does KDE’s Dolphin suffer from this, too?

No DHL support is unfortunate.

You’re not going to have fun when using OpenVPN. Even Wireguard will be a stretch. The Raspberry Pi does not have any hardware cryptography acceleration built-in and the raw compute power is very limited.

EDIT: Maybe you’re going to have acceptable speeds after all? Take a look at the Raspberry results here: https://github.com/cyyself/wg-bench?tab=readme-ov-file#test-results