I’d second this. The organization behind it (https://calyxinstitute.org/about) is a long established non profit, their portfolio covers various cool projects. The vpn client itself is basically a rebranded version of https://f-droid.org/packages/se.leap.bitmaskclient, it it is nothing special.

The question is not weather Google is tracking or not, the question is if Google is breaking the law doing so.

Be careful with those, they can interfere/kill your or your neighbors DSL connection. Terrible to diagnose these.

Antennapod supports syncing with podder.net and gpoddersync

Have you tried https://github.com/jeena/fxsync-docker? It is a docker compose for selfhosting the new Firefox sync server rewritten in Rust.

Credits: https://lemmy.world/post/5839867

If you want more in depth control on google services, CalyxOS supports microg in various combos (https://calyxos.org/docs/guide/microg/#options-for-running-microg-in-calyxos). While it has some limitations compared to the official google services, it also allows better privacy control and is fully open source.