Self signed is better and more trustworthy. LE’s short cert expiration makes it an enormous pain in the ass. Just put your cert on your site and sign it.
It's Android-based. Of course there was always spyware, and you just learned that the ads can be shoved into your face at a whim. Unless you're tech-incompetent this isn't a big surprise.
Just imagine for one second that you bought a product with a Google OS thinking there won’t be ads and spyware on the thing. It’s frickin’ 2021, just imagine being completely ignorant of Google’s function in this, our current year.
Everybody has the right to buy an ad and spyware laden black box and install it in their home. But is it smart?
Nah, Amazon has a cozy relationship with intelligence agencies (CIA, for instance, uses Amazon for cloud services) and they probably don’t want to step on any dangerous toes or lose money and business.
Just do what smart people have been doing for years - stop using big tech. Stop using Google, Facebook, Apple, IBM, Microsoft. Buy a used computer and install a Free OS and just check out of the entire big tech ecosystem.
Otherwise you get what you deserve. And let’s all disabuse ourselves of the incorrect notion that it’s big tech alone which is ordering censorship. It’s our own governments, who use the many secret laws and intelligence agency relationships (all of big tech is basically In-Q-Tel) to get what they want.
Make it difficult for them. Don’t play nice. Dissent. Stop using PRISM platforms.
Audio latency is only measured in the air once it leaves a transducer. You're comparing apples to oranges here and deliberately misunderstanding the issue.