DuckDuckGo has long now confessed to taking instructions on its search engine results.

I use Brave's search primarily now. Brave also has a semi-centralised, 25 word key for syncing between multiple instances of Brave (mobile, desktop, etc). I had mine breached a few months ago, definitely a good idea to roll over the thing every few months and strip out logins you aren't using any more, or better still, give them strong, long passwords and then delete them from your password manager (brave has one built in, that can be part of the sync).

I remember it wasn't that long ago there was a thing called "sailfish OS" whatever happened to that? Is that what became Graphene?

I haven't studied it closely because since about Android 8 or so, it's virtually impossible to find a non-google device that can be reflashed with an alternative OS ROM (I ran Cyanogen in the past on several devices). Rooted one of my motorola devices and all I won out of that was it being impossible to install DRM dependent "trusted" apps like banking wallets.

I don't even want a phone. In the future I will get a dump phone, I mean, an old, GSM only nokia or something, and stop all possible phone 2FA usage and switch it over to TOTP and FIDO2.