There’s 2 parts to this:

• Android Auto app (on your phone)
• Android Auto Head Unit software (in your car)

Both of which are currently proprietary,
and would need to be written as FOSS from the ground up by reverse engineering the above 2, which would be a huge undertaking.

Also flashing custom Head Unit software to your car will be very hard, is not well documented, and likely will void your warranty, giving low incentive for developers to even attempt it :/

The best you can do right now is aa4mg (Android Auto 4 MicroG),
which at least allows to replace the proprietary Google Play services with a privacy respecting FOSS alternative and Android Auto’s dependencies with empty stub packages:
https://github.com/sn-00-x/aa4mg

Full disclosure,
I helped with writing aa4mg :)

Been using VSCodium for a few years now, for loose file editing,
no complaints about it, imo it’s what VSCode should be.

uBlock Origin Filters to get rid of Copilot bloat on Github
uBlock Origin => Open the Dashboard => My Filters => Add:

github.com##.copilotPreview__container
github.com##.AppHeader-CopilotChat
github.com##li.ActionListItem:has-text(Copilot)
github.com##a[href*="/settings/copilot"]
github.com##a[href*="/features/copilot"]
github.com##a[href*="/resources/articles/ai"]
github.com###copilot_free_global
github.com###blob-view-header-copilot-icon

Also disable + block everything under: https://github.com/settings/copilot

Oh wow did not know that.

Well, if them spying on you and selling your data was not enough to make you switch to an alternative, then maybe/hopefully lack of search operators will be!

You can use the - (minus) sign,
which excludes pages that contain the word which has the - in front of them.

For example, currently I’m replaying GTA V single player, but when I search for content related to it, I’m often given articles about the online version.

To solve that I search:

GTA V <insert-topic-of-interest> -online

Which excludes all articles containing the word online.

I use SearXNG though,
but afaik this is implemented by most search engines.

Please edit the post,
as a few people pointed out already,
it’s not true.

They do ban based on IP,
just switch your VPN connection until you can access it again.

They’re trying to block third party and privacy respecting solutions though,
but that’s been a cat and mouse game for a while now.

Bootkitty?

However,
you can already patch your BIOS to become secure again! :)

All in all, Windows security is a joke compared to Linux’s.

I’ve been using CAD (Cookie-AutoDelete) to do exactly that:
https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete

My coping mechanism:
Block/filter out the news!
(Except for positive/uplifting news)

It does wonders for your mental health!

Most news sources are for-profit,
and they did some research,
apparently depressing news draws more attention / clicks, which results into more profit for them, but it isn’t good for your mental health.

Other news sources just drive an hidden agenda, and aim to manipulate you to believe whatever the rich guy that owns the news site wants.

Also, try to have fun while humanity is sliding down in the background!

Whether you’re depressed or acknowledge and then ignore the facts, will have zero impact on the final outcome which will apply to the whole world.

So might as well aim to be happy in the meantime :)

Just use RedLib:
https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib

And/or Lemmit.Online:
https://lemmit.online/

Oh yeah I know!

Lately I aim to only install FOSS apps from F-Droid for that reason.

If no F-Droid app available / only Play Store, then I always scan them with ClassyShark3xodus against trackers.

If they’re filled with trackers (very likely) and not absolutely nessecary for my daily workflow, I uninstall them immediately.

Currently about 75% of my apps come from F-Droid, and hope to only increase that percentage! :)

Bose headphone owner + IT guy here,
their app is filled to the brim with spyware last time I checked!

Uninstalled it immediately after de-compiling and scanning for known trackers with ClassyShark3xodus.

No regrets, the headphones work perfectly well without that stupid app!

This is actually quite good news!
Hear me out though.

Encryption has been under attack by government instances for a while now.

They always aim to weaken / backdoor it,
so that they can spy on all their citizens.

China abused the backdoor implemented by the US government,
which sends a message across the world,
being: “Do not backdoor encryption to spy on your citizens, or other countries might abuse it”

Hopefully this will put a stop to governments attacking encryption, at least for a while,
since now they’re reminded of the risks which it brings! :)

Afaik Qubes runs all software in containers,
which isolates them from each other,
which is great for privacy.

However, OP only asked for Chrome,
and I assume the jump to Qubes might be too big.

To only isolate Chrome,
I’d recommend a Flatpak instead.

Or even better Ungoogled-Chromium.

Only show interest in open source software,
let the anti consumer surveillance tech companies drown.

For SearX,
checkout these random SearX redirectors:

• GimmeASearX - Self Hosted
  https://github.com/demostanis/gimmeasearx
• SearX NeoCities - Publicly Hosted https://searx.neocities.org/

Both increase your privacy + prevent rate limits.