There is many different instances, maybe try another one

Haven’t used it much but as another option, you could try some firefox addon like libredirect so it will open some redlib instance.

Check brave history and you will see the amount of controversies they have. I personally wouldn’t believe anything Brave says.

Thanks for the clarification

What I will say needs to be fact check because I never dig much on it since I’m not using w11 so I can be wrong. There is a feature called recall which take regular snapshot on w11.

A quick search about gives different results but it is apparently a opt in feature, so unless you enabled it, it shouldn’t.

https://www.uniladtech.com/news/microsoft-controversial-feature-screenshots-your-activity-914592-20250417

If you think it does this from your browser search, try using a second device which isn’t windows based to browse the net and see if its still guesses right

Emby was but not anymore (for a few years). Only jellyfin is open source

Haven’t read so can’t tell you but you will find info at https://leminal.space/post/11699480

Home assistant has a voice assistant but it isn’t a voice assistant. Also, you are correct it is made to control a smart home (at the moment) that also include music threw external provider (or local files) but you can’t search the internet threw it. You can either install it locally or pay for home assistant subscription which include voice assistant threw cloud.

Give it a shot, description from fdroid says it supports subtitle download.

Long time I haven’t used it but nova video player should do it

It is a good voice assistant but it isn’t an ai voice assistant, Also only works for your home assistant devices/entities unless you link it to gpt

ZigBee are not designed for high bandwidth applications but +1 for Home assistant