The OS is in between the service and the bare metal. Something like OPNsense can be said to be running on bare metal because the OS and the firewall service are so intertwined. However, something like firewalld isn’t running on the bare metal because it’s just a service of the operating system.

That’s how I understand it anyway, I’m not a pro

Ah, I didn’t think anyone concerned about privacy used Chrome. But yes, for Chrome users it’s an improvement

Take the IP Protection “feature”. They hide your IP address from individual sites while hoovering up all of the user’s data into their own servers, to use for their own ends.

Privacy hasn’t been enhanced, if anything it’s been weakened by giving one company a log of everything done through the browser. So, it’s a fucking lie