Here we’re talking about PCs that can’t officially run Windows 11.

You’ll never notice a difference on your nuclear-power-plant-priced CPU and even on old ones it’s not that big. It’s actual responsiveness that suffers on reasonable hardware.

The performance impact is hilariously terrible though.

You don’t know what real poverty is. But that’s not the topic anyways.

This app promotes or depends entirely on a non-free network service

I think it uses it for background removal.

This app tracks and reports your activity

I’m not sure about that but I know VPNs have that anti-feature. It either has some telemetry or it’s because of third-party network service integration.