But they still won't be able to remove all of the baked-in spyware.

I partially disagree. It depends on *why* they sent the link.

If it's totally out of nowhere, I agree; if someone asks a question and their channel/video answer the question? Feel free to advertise yourself.

They just had twins not too long ago.

It's hard to keep doing two full-time jobs and additional one that no one pays you for.

The dev said they are going to take a break. They didn't say they want to stop completely.

Use Invidious/MPV/FreeTube on the computer, and Newpipe on your Android phone.

The latest.

Like the other comment mentioned, you don't need to reboot, unless you've updated the kernel.

If you somehow downloaded by mistake an immutable system, like Fedora Silverblue or Fedora Kinoite, know it's not the classic way to manage Linux systems.

You can install on it a lot of custom ROMs, including GrapheneOS and CalyxOS.

Upgrade, ha?

OK, time to install TempleOS.

Ctrl+Shift+T anywhere.

As another comment suggests, try to change your user-agent. Chameleon is great.

Telemetry, *supposed to be* only sending data that would benefit the user, by helping the developers to understand what the users really need.

Microsoft and Apple abused that term and it became just 'data collection'. FOSS telemetry shouldn't, and usually - hopefully - wouldn't collect unnecessary data, to sell it back as adverts.

So if you trust , I don't see why not to enable it. It just helps the devs, and you too, at the end.