Even then, the difference between 20 and 2000 characters is negligible

That’s what I said, they use paid GitHub, so you as the worker don’t get the choice, you need to use whatever they do

Meanwhile, if you start your own project, you need to choose a platform, but you also need to choose a license, so nothing is stopping you from using a free licence and picking Codeberg

I struggle to see many cases where someone that cares about FOSS gets to choose between GitHub, Codeberg etc, but doesn’t get to choose the license of their project. As an employee you get neither, for your own projects you get both.

In what circumstances would you develop non-free code and still have the need to pick a provider? Don’t companies have regulations usually, so your have to use either their own hosted instance or GitHub enterprise?

Firefox is a good start, or Librewolf if you’re really concerned about privacy