I have that function disabled on my phone. It’s not about not doing that during sleep though but rather the green dot will pop every single time when I wake up the device, say I lock the screen just 1 second ago 1 second later when I wake up the phone the dot will pop, this can be reproduced repeatedly. I honestly think this must be a bug on my phone specifically but downgrade the Play service does fix this and the updated version is still behaving like this in safe mode. I’m seriously thinking about switching to Lineages OS at this point…

Self-host yourself is the safest option, I do.

SearXNG, there’s nothing much else to say.

I probably won’t, the last video game I played was Minecraft, I can’t imagine myself surviving such harsh environment.