

I don’t think you see what I’m getting at yet. What I said was that not buying one of those devices, among others, is the way you don’t consent to your 4th Amendment rights being violated. Now, if a device like that is usable with a de-Googled solution, as long as it’s hardened right, then at the very least, it shows you don’t consent to the corporate spying. Government spying though… good luck with that.
With Linux, that’s impossible. However, I will say that you won’t need to worry about these privacy invading rootkits disguising themselves as anti-cheats (Ricochet, EA’s Ring 0 malware, EAC, Battleye, etc.).