It's not a matter of hiding, I just feel I've been walking around with my pants down, rather with my **** out and exposing everything for the last... Far too long. I just want to zip up and walk around without everyone having a look at whatever they want. Not intending to be crude, but It's pretty literal to being a Chromebook user.
So far I am on the Dell, Linux mint. Surfshark, Tor Browser, Librewolf, and Firefox browsers installed. Using Librewolf tonight because I haven't hardened Firefox, yet. I installed KeepassXC and have imported all Passwords. Still not sure what to do with bookmarks. Does it matter or are they readable for browser footprinting?
Sorry to anyone that I didn't directly engage with or respond to, this gives me so much to think about sometimes I don't even have an answer. Often I was just trying to digest and grasp what was being said. I just went through all the posts again to make sure I didn't miss anything. I still intend to tweak Firefox and likely use that for Amazon, Netflix, pay accounts and such. Maybe set up another browser for business stuff, website editing, email accounts, etc. Keep Librewolf and Tor for rabbit hole searches.
I still need to look into Youtube players, but I am using Linux, not the Chromebook. Mostly I just need to make using it a little more fluid, then it's literally making sure I have all my files transferred and backed up and I can wipe the OS from the Chromebook and set up Mint and do this all over again.
Now, I'm not saying I don't have more questions coming, but thanks for all the input.