If you say digital ads, probably none.

But we have ads everywhere, brands and logos are everywhere, this is ad too.

I get my earphones I see their logo, I get my phone I see a logo too, my laptop, my shoes, my shirts etc… Ads everywhere.

Facebook got my precise location just using my IP, I decided to create a fake account to use FB market place, they warned me about an “unknown login”, it’s the first time I’ve seen this, usually websites only know approximate location, but this time just by knowing my IP they hit exactly the small town where I live, instead of near towns which is the normal. I suspect they had my IP from other devices allowing location in the same network (same wifi), then they could safely associate that IP with my exact location even tho I didn’t enable any GPS any time.

You can use VSCodium, it’s VSCode without Microsoft telemetry

I don’t play EA games it’s being years. My Steam profile description is “#NoEAGames #NoUbisoftGames”.

There’s even some really good old games from EA but I just don’t play it, and that’s it.

No I think not, but reading the README of DNSNet they mention Rethink, I tried it here and I think it might work similar to AdGuard. https://rethinkdns.com/

Rethink DNS exclusively uses DNS over HTTPS or DNS over TLS to encrypt and secure your DNS queries.

I’m not sure but I suppose it does since it’s a local VPN, it log all requests being made, why wouldn’t it block https?

I think you still can have a Linux phone with GNOME, there’s a GNOME version for mobile.

After all, what is a smartphone? Just a convenient computer that can make calls.

Linux + GNOME will do that for you.

This is from 2022 and it looks pretty good to me: https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2022/09/09/gnome-shell-on-mobile-an-update/